Paul D. Gewirtz (born May 12, 1947)[1] is an American lawyer currently serving as the Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale Law School and director of the Yale Paul Tsai China Center.
He served as the U.S. representative at the European Commission for Democracy through Law of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2000, and was a consultant to the Solicitor General of the United States in 1997.
From 1997-1998, he was on leave of absence from Yale University to serve in President Clinton's administration as Special Representative for the Presidential Rule of Law Initiative.
In 2015 Gewirtz was named to Foreign Policy magazine's Pacific Power Index, a list of "50 people shaping the future of the U.S.-China relationship."
He was married to Zoë Baird from 1986 to 2008, and he has two sons, Alec and Julian, who was China Director at the National Security Council and is currently Deputy Coordinator for the State Department's Office of China Coordination in the Biden administration.