. Chen worked for the New York Times Beijing bureau from 1992 to 1997, when he was sent by the Time to Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow in 1997. From 1998 to 2001, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard's Fairbank center; he was a student at Harvard Law School in 2002, and a researcher at Harvard Law School from 2003 to 2005. Chen is now a student at the University of Wisconsin's School of Law and editor of China Law Digest .