Associate Professor of Law, Director of Asian Law Center, University of Washington School of Law. Director, Graduate Program in Asian and Comparative Law. Director, Graduate Program in Global Business Law Associate Professor of Law. His academic interests include international trade Law, and comparative study of Chinese Law, with a focus on the role of Law and state in response to social crises in the social transformation in China. He holds an S.J.D. and LL.M. from Harvard Law School, in addition to his LL.M. from Renmin University (Beijing) and LL.B. from Beijing College of Economics. His doctoral dissertation, One-way Transparency: The Establishment of the Rule-based International Trade Order and the Predicament of Its Jurisprudence, was awarded the 2004 Yong K. Kim ‘95 prize. He was a research fellow at the East Asia Legal Studies at Harvard Law School during the 2004-05 academic year.