Darius Longarino

Darius Longarino (龙大瑞) is a Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School and a Senior Fellow of the Paul Tsai China Center. Prior to joining the Center, he worked for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative in Beijing, where he managed legal reform programs promoting LGBT rights and worked cooperatively with a number of Chinese public interest law organizations. Longarino speaks and reads Mandarin Chinese, and received a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2013, where he was a Kent scholar and received the Edwin Parker Prize for Excellence in Comparative or International Law. As a law student, he interned with a legal aid organization in New York, a public interest law organization in China, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and the Court of International Trade. Prior to law school, he was an assistant to Professor Jerome A. Cohen at New York University School of Law’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute.