Jeanne Tai is the Assistant Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. She holds a J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. in anthropology and Chinese history from Barnard College. Under the auspices of the U.S. Committee for Legal Education Exchange with China, she spent 18 months as an Exchange Scholar in China after receiving her law degree, conducting research into Chinese industrial relations and labor law while lecturing on U.S. administrative law and labor law at universities in Beijing, Shanghai, and Chongqing. Jeanne's professional experiences include practicing law for four years in the New York and London offices of Sullivan & Cromwell; pro bono and consulting work for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now known as Human Rights First); and teaching modern Chinese literature in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. Jeanne has published translations of contemporary Chinese fiction and poetry, and maintains an active interest in literary, cultural, and legal developments in East Asia.