Presidential Rule of Law Initiative

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Presidential Rule of Law Initiative was a project between the United States and People's Republic of China to expand bilateral cooperation in the field of law.

In 1998, President Bill Clinton and President Jiang Zemin agreed to this program. The special representative for the US side was Paul Gewirtz.

One project of this initiative was the American Law Library program, which was to translate hundres of books of American law into Chinese.

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• The US-China Rule of Law Initiative by Paul Gewirtz (pdf file)
• As regard the rule of law and the transparency issues see, Five Years of China’s WTO Membership. EU and US Perspectives on China’s Compliance with Transparency Commitments and the Transitional Review Mechanism, Legal Issues of Economic Integration, Kluwer Law International, Volume 33, Number 3, pp. 263-304, 2006, by Farah Paolo