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Robert D. Williams is a Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School and Executive Director of the Paul Tsai China Center (currently on leave). He also serves as a Lecturer in Global Affairs at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs. His work focuses on U.S.-China relations, Chinese legal reform, and policy analysis. Williams holds a B.A. from Vanderbilt University (2005) and a J.D. from Harvard Law School (2010), where he co-founded and edited the Harvard National Security Journal.
Before joining Yale, he clerked at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He has also worked in private practice and as a consultant for the U.S. Department of State.
His research interests include transnational legal frameworks, geopolitical strategy, and comparative legal systems. Williams teaches courses such as Contemporary China Research Seminar and Law and U.S.-China Relations, emphasizing practical and theoretical intersections of law and policy.
