Presidential Rule of Law Initiative, orUS-China Rule of Law Initiative, was a project between theUnited States andPeople's Republic of China to expand bilateral cooperation in the field of law.

In 1998,U.S. PresidentBill Clinton andGeneral Secretary of the Chinese Communist PartyJiang Zemin agreed to this program. The special representative for the U.S. side wasPaul Gewirtz.

One project of this initiative was theAmerican Law Library program, which was to translate hundreds of books of American law into Chinese.

• Paul Gewirtz,The US-China Rule of Law Initiative (pdf file),William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Vol.11, pp. 603–621 (2003).
• Introduction to the Presidential Rule of Law Initiative

• China–United States relations
• Clinton administration initiatives