Jerome Alan Cohen (simplified Chinese: 孔杰荣; traditional Chinese: 孔傑榮; pinyin: Kǒng Jiéróng) is a professor of law at New York University School of Law, an expert in Chinese law, a senior fellow for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves as "of counsel" at the international law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.
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Biography
Born: Elizabeth, New Jersey, July 1, 1930 Married to Joan Lebold Cohen
Cohen received his B.A. degree from Yale University in 1951 and J.D. from Yale Law School in 1955. While at Yale, he served as the Editor in Chief of the Yale Law Journal. He was a Fulbright scholar in France from 1951 to 1952.
He clerked at the Supreme Court under both Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice Felix Frankfurter.
Cohen joined the faculty of University of California at Berkeley School of Law in 1959, then moved to Harvard Law School in 1964. He became a Professor of Law at New York University School of Law in 1990. He concurrently serves as Of Counsel for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
Cohen was influential in securing the release of John T. Downey in the early 1970s. Downey had been held in a Chinese prison since the Korean War.
Cohen also enjoys fame in Taiwan for having been the mentor of incumbent president Ma Ying-Jeou during the latter's study at Harvard Law School, though he has been critical of Ma since Ma took power.[1]
Works
Cohen's writings regularly appear in Hong Kong's English daily South China Morning Post.
- "The Struggle for Autonomy of Beijing's Public Interest Lawyers," China Rights Forum, 2009, no. 1.
- Investment Law and Practice in Vietnam (Longman, 1990)
- Contract Law of the People's Republic of China (Longman, 1988) (with Yvonne Y.F. Chan and Ho Yuk Ming)
- People's China and International Law (Princeton University Press, 1974) (with H.D. Chiu)
- The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of China, 1949-63: An Introduction (Harvard University Press, 1968)
See also
- Derk Bodde (1909-2003): U.S. scholar of ancient Chinese law and society
- William P. Alford: current Harvard University scholar of Chinese law
References
- ^ "Ma's US mentor stresses need to ensure fair trial," Associated Press, January 18, 2009.
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