About
Michael R. Fowler is Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville with academic and professional interests in Asia and the Pacific. A graduate of Harvard Law School as well as the University of Virginia and Dartmouth College, he practiced law for several years with Mintz, Levin, a large Boston law firm with various clients in Asia.
Research
He has published recent book chapters in Chinese Legality: Ideology, Law, and Institutions and The Political Logic of the US-China Trade War. Professor Fowler has served as a two-time Fulbright Scholar to Japan at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa. He lectured at Bond University in Australia and presented a two-week seminar for professors from across China at the China Foreign Affairs University. Through the Program for International Studies in Asia, he has taught on multiple occasions at the training wings of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam and Laos. Fowler published an edited volume, Envisioning Reform: Enhancing UN Accountability in the Twenty-First Century, alongside former UN Assistant Secretary-General Sumihiro Kuyama.