Neysun A. Mahboubi is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow with the FPRI Asia Program as well as Director of the Penn Project on the Future of US-China Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches various courses related to Chinese history, law, and policy, and hosts the China Studies podcast.

Previously he was a Research Scholar of Penn’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China, where he remains affiliated. His primary academic interests are in the areas of administrative law, comparative law, and Chinese law, and his current writing focuses on the development of modern Chinese administrative law. He frequently comments on Chinese law and policy developments and US-China relations for various media outlets.

He has also taught at Penn Carey Law School, Princeton University’s School of Public & International Affairs, the University of Connecticut School of Law, and Yale Law School. Earlier in his career, he served as a trial attorney in the Civil Division (Federal Programs Branch) of the US Department of Justice, and as a law clerk to Judge Douglas P. Woodlock of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and an A.B. from Princeton University.