Donald Clarke

Professor Donald Clarke is a specialist in modern Chinese law, focusing particularly on corporate governance, Chinese legal institutions, and the legal issues presented by China's economic reforms. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and has also published translations of Japanese legal scholarship. In addition to his academic work, he founded and maintains Chinalaw, the leading internet listserv on Chinese law, and writes the Chinese Law Prof Blog.

Professor Clarke was educated at Princeton University (AB) and the University of London (MSc), and received his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review. From 1995 to 1998, he practiced law in the New York, Beijing, and Hong Kong offices of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He has previously been on the law faculties of the University of Washington School of Law and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and has been a visiting professor at New York University School of Law and the UCLA School of Law. Since 2005, he has been on the faculty of the George Washington University Law School.

Professor Clarke is a member of the Academic Advisory Group to the US-China Working Group of the United States Congress and has served as a consultant to a number of organizations, including the Financial Sector Reform and Strengthening Initiative (FIRST), the Asian Development Bank, and the Agency for International Development. He is a member of the New York bar and the Council on Foreign Relations.