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Jerome Cohen (孔傑榮/柯恩) is Professor Emeritus at New York University School of Law, Founder and Faculty Director Emeritus of its US-Asia Law Institute, and Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Here you can find his lifelong work and interesting stories on Asia and law as well as resources for Chinese legal studies.
The U.S.-Asia Law Institute (USALI) of NYU School of Law,
founded by Jerome A. Cohen and Frank K. Upham, provides an essential public service by educating important constituencies about developments in Asian legal systems and societies; bolstering legal reform efforts with comparative research and international expertise; and nurturing the current and next generation of scholars and practitioners who will set the direction of legal reform in the future.
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Jerry's Twitter @jeromeacohen.
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Thanks to @donaldcclarke, Dr. Grace (Yu) Mou of the @soasLAW faculty has authored this fine, interesting, and encou… https://t.co/pVwzINu0XU -
Here is a good analysis of the division of legislative powers between the central and local governments. https://t.co/ZXDFZTEBha
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This article reminded me of an interaction I had over a decade ago, at Hong Kong University Law School - the last t… https://t.co/rKg7U69PYN
Law, Life and Asia
Jerome Cohen's Video Memoirs
“Establish Yourself At Thirty
”Sanshi erli (三十而立)!” I first heard this famous Chinese phrase before I could understand it. Every educated Chinese knows it as one of a series of maxims coined by China’s greatest sage, Confucius, as advice appropriate to life’s successive decades.
I was about to turn thirty and confronting my most daring career decision. As a young, untenured professor of American public and international law who had just finished his first year of teaching at Berkeley, should I take up an extraordinary opportunity to study China, one that I had failed to persuade others to pursue?”