Carl Minzner

Carl Minzner is an American legal scholar currently serving as Professor of Law at Fordham Law School and a senior fellow in China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His research focuses on politics, rule of law, and governance in China.

Education Minzner holds a BA in international relations from Stanford University (1994) and a joint MA/JD from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and Columbia Law School (2000).

Career From 2003 to 2006, Minzner was a senior counsel at the Congressional Executive Commission on China. He subsequently served as an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 2006 to 2007 and was appointed a senior fellow in China studies in September 2021.

Publications

Books End of an Era: How China’s Authoritarian Revival Is Undermining Its Rise (Oxford University Press, 2018)

Articles Xi Jinping Can't Handle an Aging China, Foreign Affairs, May 2, 2023 China's Doomed Fight Against Demographic Decline, Foreign Affairs, May 3, 2022 What Direction for Legal Reform under Xi Jinping, Jamestown Foundation, January 4, 2013