[Bio from the website of Washington University School of Law]
Carl Minzner specializes in Chinese law and politics at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. Before joining the law faculty, he served as senior counsel on the Congressional-Executive Commission on China and was an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He also served as a Yale-China Legal Education fellow at the Xibei Institute of Politics and Law in Xi’an. He previously practiced intellectual property law in the San Francisco Bay Area and clerked for Judge Raymond Clevenger, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He received a joint J.D./M.I.A degree from Columbia Law School and School of International and Public Affairs, and a B.A. in international relations from Stanford University.
His published works include articles on citizen petitioning institutions in China and reforms to the regulations governing Chinese civil society organizations.
Before beginning law school, Mr. Minzner spent two years in Taiwan and mainland China teaching English, studying Chinese, and traveling extensively in western China. He speaks and reads Mandarin Chinese and French.
