Jeffrey Prescott

Jeffrey Prescott "is Deputy Director of The China Law Center and a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. He spent his fellowship year (1998-99) at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First), where he worked on projects in support of human rights and the rule of law.  Following his fellowship, he continued at the Lawyers Committee as a staff attorney.  In 2001-02, he taught human rights law at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, on a grant from the Luce Foundation.  He joined The China Law Center in 2002 and established and directed the Center’s Beijing office until returning to New Haven in 2007.

"Jeff received his B.A. from Boston University in 1993 and is a 1997 graduate of the Law School. After graduation, Jeff clerked in the chambers of the Honorable Walter K. Stapleton, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit."


 * Bernstein Fellowship