October 2014

Maggie Lewis is a Professor of Law at Seton Hall University. Her research focuses on China and Taiwan with an emphasis on criminal justice and human rights as well as on legal issues in the U.S.-China relationship. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at National Taiwan University, a visiting professor at Academic Sinica, a Public Intellectuals Program Fellow with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and a delegate to the U.S.-Japan Foundation’s U.S.-Japan Leadership Program. Lewis is also a Non-Resident Affiliated Scholar of NYU School of Law’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute.

Lewis’ publications have appeared in a number of academic journals, and she co-authored the book Challenge to China: How Taiwan Abolished its Version of Re-Education Through Labor (U.S.-Asia Law Institute, NYU School of Law/Berkshire Publishing, 2013) with Jerome A. Cohen.

Lewis has participated in the State Department’s Legal Experts Dialogue with China, has testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, and is a consultant to the Ford Foundation. She has been quoted widely in the media including by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and CNN.

Before joining Seton Hall, Lewis served as a Senior Research Fellow at NYU School of Law’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute, where she worked on criminal justice reforms in China. Following graduation from law school, she worked as an Associate at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York City. She then served as a law clerk for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Diego. After clerking, she returned to NYU School of Law and was awarded a Furman Fellowship.

Lewis received her J.D., magna cum laude, from NYU School of Law, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif and was a member of Law Review. She received her B.A., summa cum laude, from Columbia University, and also studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China.

Harry Harding is a specialist on Asia whose major publications include Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1966; A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972, and The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know. He is also the author of the chapter on the Cultural Revolution in the Cambridge History of China. Presently a University Professor and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Virginia, Harding served as the founding Dean of the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy between 2009 and 2014. Before joining the Batten School, he held appointments at Stanford University and the Brookings Institution and was Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University from 1995 to 2005 and Director of Research and Analysis at Eurasia Group from 2005 to 2007.