Paul Gewirtz is currently the Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law and director of the Global Constitutional Law Project at Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut. He teaches and writes in the fields of constitutional law, comparative law, anti-discrimination law, procedure, and law and literature. Professor Gewirtz is also the United States Representative at the European Commission for Democracy through Law (the "Venice Commission"). He took a leave of absence from Yale Law School from 1997 to 1998 to serve in the US Department of State as the special representative for the Presidential Rule of Law Initiative, where his responsibilities included the development of the US-China Rule of Law Initiative. Before joining the Yale faculty, Professor Gewirtz worked as an associate at the firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and as an attorney of the Center for Social Policy in Washington, DC. He was also a law clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and to Judge Marvin Frankel of the United States District Court in New York. Professor Gewirtz holds a B.A. degree from Columbia University and law degree from Yale University. He served as a faculty member of Salzburg Seminar Session 307, American Law and Legal Institutions, 1993; and Session 349, Recent Developments in American Law and Legal Institutions, 1997.