Jerome A. Cohen

Professor of Law Emeritus, New York University School of Law

Founder and Faculty Director Emeritus, US-Asia Law Institute of New York University School of Law

Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations 

Jerome Alan Cohen, a Professor of Law Emeritus at NYU School of Law and Faculty Director Emeritus of its U.S.-Asia Law Institute, is a leading American expert on Chinese law and government. A pioneer in the field, Professor Cohen began studying and teaching about China’s legal system in 1960 and from 1964 to 1979 introduced the teaching of Asian law into the curriculum of Harvard Law School, where he founded and became initial director of the East Asian Legal Studies program and also served as Jeremiah Smith Professor and Associate Dean for graduate and international studies. More recently, Professor Cohen served for several years as C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director of Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he currently is an Adjunct Senior Fellow. He retired from the partnership of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in 2000 after over twenty years of law practice focused on China. In 2020, he retired from NYU School of Law after thirty years of teaching. In his law practice, Professor Cohen represented many companies and individuals in contract negotiations as well as in dispute resolution concerning China.

Professor Cohen has published several books on Chinese law, including The Criminal Process in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-63 (1968), People’s China and International Law (1974, with H.D. Chiu) and Challenge to China: How Taiwan Abolished its Version of Re-education Through Labor (2013, with Margaret Lewis). In addition, he has edited many books and published hundreds of scholarly articles on various topics as well as a book, China Today And Her Ancient Treasures (1975), co-authored with his wife, Joan Lebold Cohen, and a regular series of journalistic opinion pieces for various newspapers. Today, Professor Cohen continues his research and writing on Asian law, focusing on legal institutions, criminal justice reform, dispute resolution, human rights and the role of international law relating to China and Taiwan.

Outside academia, Professor Cohen has served in government, as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C. from 1958 to 1959 and then as a fulltime consultant to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in 1959. He has also testified at many congressional hearings on China.

Professor Cohen is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale College (B.A. 1951). He spent the 1951-1952 academic year as a Fulbright Scholar in France and graduated, in 1955, from Yale Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal. He was Law Secretary to Chief Justice Earl Warren of the United States Supreme Court in the 1955 Term and Law Secretary to Justice Felix Frankfurter of the Supreme Court in the 1956 Term.

孔杰荣（柯恩）

纽约大学法学院荣誉退休法学教授

纽约大学法学院亚美法研究所荣誉创所所长

外交关系委员会资深兼任研究员

孔杰荣教授，纽约大学法学院荣誉退休法学教授，纽约大学法学院亚美法研究所荣誉创所所长，外交关系委员会资深兼任研究员。

孔教授是研究亚洲法的美国权威。早在二十世纪六十年代他就开始研究中国刑法。 1964-1979年间，他是哈佛法学院杰瑞米·史密斯教授和副院长，在此期间将亚洲法引入哈佛法学院教程。

孔教授曾是外交关系委员会C.V. 斯塔尔资深研究员和亚洲研究部主任，宝维斯（Paul, Weiss）律师事务所合伙人。他曾在许多亚洲法律争议中担任仲裁人。孔教授早年曾是华盛顿特区助理联邦检察官，美国参议院外交委员会顾问，多次在美国国会听证会上就中国议题作证。

孔教授是耶鲁法学院法律博士，《耶鲁法学》总编，美国最高法院首席大法官厄尔·沃伦和菲利克斯·法兰克福大法官的法律助理。