Carl Minzner, Senior Counsel

Carl Minzner joined the CECC staff in September 2003 after serving a year as a Yale-China Legal Education Fellow at the Xibei Institute of Politics and Law in Xi'an. At Xibei, Mr. Minzner taught American intellectual property law and assisted in the development of the school's clinical legal education program, in which students represented clients in Chinese court proceedings.

Before teaching law at Xibei, Mr. Minzner worked in Palo Alto, California, as an attorney specializing in intellectual property law for McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, and in Washington, D.C., as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Raymond Clevenger, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Before beginning law school, Mr. Minzner spent two years in Taiwan and mainland China, teaching English, studying Chinese, and traveling extensively in western China. Mr. Minzner holds a Juris Doctor from Columbia University Law School, and a bachelor's degree in International Relations from Stanford University. He speaks Mandarin Chinese and French.

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