Tuesday February 22nd at 8PM:
What Does Egypt Mean for China?: A Conversation with Jerry Cohen
Guest: Jerry Cohen, China Law Expert and Human Rights Advocate on
The Democracy Hour with Tom De Luca
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Jerome A. Cohen has been traveling to China for almost forty years and studying Chinese law for even longer. Since 1995 he has been adjunct senior fellow for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Since 1990, he has been a professor at the New York University School of Law, where he teaches courses on Chinese criminal justice and Chinese business law. He has also been a member of the board of editors of both the China Quarterly and the American Journal of International Law. He continues to serve on the advisory board of Human Rights Watch – Asia and is a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Mr. Cohen has published several books, including The Criminal Process in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–63, People’s China and International Law, and Contract Laws of the People’s Republic of China, and many articles on Chinese law. He formerly served as Jeremiah J. Smith professor, director of East Asian legal studies, and associate dean at Harvard Law School. He joined the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in 1981 and retired from commercial law practice in 2000.