I currently serve as the founding dean of the Peking University School of Transnational Law, the first school in the People's Republic of China to provide an American-style legal education leading to a J.D. degree.
This summer I will become the founding vice chancellor of NYU Shanghai, the first American university ever to receive independent registration status from the Chinese Ministry of Education.
I am also currently a member of the board of Infosys Ltd. and chair of its subsidiary Infosys Public Services, a trustee and past board chair of Internet2, a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a member of the international board of trustees of the Nazareth Academic Institute.
Earlier in my career I served as a Supreme Court law clerk, a practicing tax lawyer, a professor of law and public policy, the dean of the University of Michigan Law School, and the president of Cornell University.
Over the years, I have been given the opportunity to write and speak about a broad range of issues that animate life in the twenty-first century. I firmly believe that the rule of law, education, and technology are crucial catalysts for a world where people from different cultural backgrounds join their talents to improve the human condition. I am pleased to be able to use this website as a way to share my ideas.
I appreciate your interest and welcome you to contact me if you would like to respond to anything you see here.
