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Nicholas Calcina Howson is the Pao Li Tsiang Professor of Law at the University of Michigan School of Law. A former partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, he practiced law in New York, Paris, London, and Beijing, and served as managing partner of the firm’s Asia Practice. His academic and professional work centers on Chinese corporate law, securities regulation, and legal history, with a focus on constitutionalism in Greater China.
- Education: BA from Williams College; JD from Columbia University.
Howson has advised numerous PRC government entities and institutions on legal drafting and serves as a Chinese law expert in international litigation. He has taught at Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, and Harvard law schools and holds affiliations with the Council on Foreign Relations, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and multiple arbitration commissions. His research explores corporate governance, capital markets, and the historical evolution of Chinese law.
His recent activities include presentations at Yale Law School, Anhui University School of Law, and the Lieberthal Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. He has contributed to scholarship repositories on topics such as minority shareholder protection, judicial autonomy in authoritarian states, and securities law liability.
