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Stanley Lubman, Esq.

Stanley Lubman has specialized on China as a scholar and as a practicing lawyer for over thirty years. He is currently teaching on Chinese law at the University of California (Berkeley), where he is Lecturer at the School of Law and Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society. He has previously taught at the Stanford Law School (Consulting Professor, 1997-2000; Senior Fellow and Lecturer, 2000-2001); the law schools of Columbia, Harvard, and Yale; and the University of Heidelberg and the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. He has been advising clients on the People's Republic of China since 1972, and has also been active in representing clients in disputes arbitrated by the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission in Beijing. From 1978 to 1997 he headed the China practices at two major San Francisco law firms and a large English firm of solicitors.

His writings on Chinese law and related subjects have been widely published, including China's Legal Reforms (Stanley Lubman, ed.), Oxford University Press, 1996 and Bird in a Cage: Legal Reform in China after Mao, Stanford University Press, 2000.

He is advisor on China legal projects to The Asia Foundation, and is currently involved in planning two efforts funded by the Foundation. One related to training a selected group of Chinese officials on the impact of WTO accession on Chinese law, and the other involves consultation between U.S. experts on administrative law and a group of Chinese specialists who are drafting legislation intended to reform Chinese administrative law.