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Neysun Mahboubi

Director, Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations, University of Pennsylvania

Neysun Mahboubi

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Neysun A. Mahboubi is director of the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also teaches various courses related to Chinese history, law and policy and hosts the “China Studies” podcast. He is also a nonresident senior fellow with the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Previously, he was a research scholar at Penn’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China, where he remains affiliated. His primary academic interests are in the areas of administrative law, comparative law and Chinese law, and his current writing focuses on the development of modern Chinese administrative law. He frequently comments on Chinese law and policy developments and U.S.-China relations for various media outlets. He has taught at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, the University of Connecticut School of Law and Yale Law School.