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.

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