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Mei Gechlik
Lecturer in Law

Biography

Education

  • LLB, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, 1990
  • LLM (International Legal Studies), Washington College of Law, American University, 1992
  • JSM, Stanford Law School, 1999
  • JSD, Stanford Law School, 2001
  • MBA (Finance), Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2006

Employment

  • Legal Associate for Asia, International Human Rights Law Group, Washington D.C., 1993
  • Assistant Professor of Law, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, 1994-1998
  • Visiting Professor of Law, School of Law, People’s University, Beijing, China, 1995
  • Consultant, United Nations, Geneva, 2001-2003
  • Associate/ Non-resident Associate, China Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington D.C., 2001-2007
  • Consultant, John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation, 2002, 2005
  • Fellow, Microsoft Rule of Law Center, Stanford Law School, 2007-Present
  • Expert witness in a “Country Guidance” asylum and human rights case in England, 2007

Professional Affiliations

  • Attorney-at-Law, State of New York, Washington D.C.
  • Barrister, Hong Kong, England and Wales
  • Executive Committee Member, Legal Education Standing Committee of LAWASIA, Sydney, Australia, 1995-1997
  • International Advisory Board Member, Legal Aid of Cambodia, Cambodia, 1995-1997
  • Advisory Board Member, Hong Kong Journal, Washington D.C., 2005-2006
  • Member of Law Council, Gerson Lehrman Group, New York, 2006-Present

    • Publications

    • Time for a Closer Look: The Judicial Review of Patent Reexamination Board Decisions is an Important but Underused Patent Protection Mechanism in China, China Business Review (March/April 2007)
    • Protecting Intellectual Property Rights in Chinese Courts: An Analysis of Recent Patent Judgments (Carnegie Paper No. 78, January 2007)
    • Judicial Reform in China: Lessons from Shanghai, 19 Columbia Journal of Asian Law 97 (2005)
    • Fighting China’s Pirates, Legally, Foreign Policy (June 2005)
    • China’s WTO Commitment on Independent Judicial Review: Impact on Legal and Political Reform, 52 American Journal Of Comparative Law 77 (2004)
    • Hong Kong after the Elections: The Future of 'One Country, Two Systems', testimony presented to the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (September 2004)
    • Getting to Democracy in Hong Kong, Carnegie Policy Brief (August 2004)
    • Recent Developments in Hong Kong, testimony presented to the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, U.S. House of Representatives International Relations Committee (June 2004)
    • China’s Constitutional Amendment is Flawed, International Herald Tribune (March 5, 2004)
    • Why HK Democrats Need a Sense of Timing, Financial Times (August 6, 2003)
    • Beijing Still Has HK’s People on Its Side, Financial Times (July 16, 2003)
    • Reassessing Reeducation Through Labor, 2 China Rights Forum 35 (2003)
    • WTO and Sovereignty: The U.S. Experience in WTO AND SOVEREIGNTY (The Central Party School of China, March 2003)(Chinese)
    • Improving Human Rights in China: Should Re-education Through Labor Be Abolished?, 41 Columbia Journal Of Transnational Law 303 (February 2003)

    Courses & Programs

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