Su Lin Han is a Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center, and a Senior Research Scholar in Law and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. A native of Beijing who has lived in the United States since graduating college, Han has extensive experience and expertise in numerous aspects of Chinese and American law. After receiving a J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, she worked as a corporate attorney at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C. and the Hong Kong office of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Prior to joining the Paul Tsai China Center, she worked as a legal consultant to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank on a variety of legal and financial reform projects in China. Her portfolio at the Center includes women’s rights and domestic violence, consumer protection regulation, and public interest litigation in China.
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Last Updated: June 1, 2017
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China Has a New Domestic Violence Law. So Why Are Victims Still Often Unsafe?
In rural Hunan province, about two hours from the city of Changsha, a young woman named Zhang Meili married a violent man. According to local police, Zhang had trouble coping with her husband’s strong sexual appetite and he became jealous and...