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Email: jdelisle@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Comparative Law
- International Law
- Chinese Law and Politics
Bio
Jacques deLisle is an expert in contemporary Chinese law and politics.
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Jacques deLisle is an expert in contemporary Chinese law and politics. DeLisle’s research focuses on the law and politics of the People’s Republic of China, China’s approach to international law, Taiwan’s international status, legal change and economic reform in China, Hong Kong’s transition to and political-legal development under Chinese rule, and public international law. His writings on these subjects appear in a variety of fora, including international relations journals, edited volumes of multidisciplinary scholarship, and Asian studies journals, as well as law reviews. His Op-Eds and commentaries on law, politics and foreign policy regularly appear in newspapers and specialized foreign policy and Asian affairs media.
DeLisle is Director of Asia Programs at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a member of the faculty of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and a member of the National Committee on U.S.- China Relations. He has served frequently as an expert witness on issues of P.R.C. law and government policies. He is also a consultant, lecturer and advisor to foreign-assisted legal reform, development and education programs, primarily in China, including the Temple University - Tsinghua University Masters of Law Program.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law (2006 -); Professor (1999-06); Assistant Professor (1994-99)
Penn Faculty of the Center for East Asian Studies (1996 -)
Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice Attorney-Advisor (1992-94)
Law Clerk to Chief Judge Stephen G. Breyer, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1991-92)
Representative Publications
Foreign Policy and Constitutional Change in China, ORBIS (forthcoming 2007) (with Cheng Li).
Legalization without Democratization in China under Hu Jintao, in CHINA AFTER THE 17TH PARTY CONGRESS (Cheng Li, ed., forthcoming 2007).
Taiwan’s Constitutional Reform: Implications for Cross-Strait Relations and International Status, ORBIS (forthcoming 2007) (with Vincent Wang).
Traps, Gaps and Law in China’s Transition, in OXFORD FOUNDATION FOR LAW, JUSTICE AND SOCIETY POLICY BRIEF (forthcoming 2007).
Eroding the “One China” Policy: A Tripartite Legal-Political Strategy for Taiwan, in RESHAPING THE TAIWAN STRAIT (John Tkacik ed., 2007).
Legislating the Cross-Strait Status Quo?: China’s Anti-Secession Law, Taiwan’s Constitutional Reform, and the U.S.’s Taiwan Relations Act, in POWER AND PRINCIPLE: US, CHINA AND TAIWAN TRIANGULAR RELATIONS (Peter Chow ed., Edward Elgar Publishing 2006).
CHINA UNDER HU JINTAO: OPPORTUNITIES, DANGERS, AND DILEMMAS (with Tun-jen Cheng and Deborah Brown eds., Word Scientific Publishing 2006).
China and the WTO: The Law and Politics of Accession and Participation in the Post-Jiang Era, in CHINA UNDER THE FOURTH GENERATION LEADERSHIP (co-edited with T.J. Cheng and Deborah Brown 2006).
The Common Law of Causation in Tort and Questions of Policy and Institutions in the Development of Chinese Tort Law, LEGAL MATERIALS J. (in Chinese) (2004).
SARS and the Pathologies of Globalization and Transition in Greater China, vol. 47, no. 4 ORBIS 587 (2003).
A Chinese Solution?: Development without Democracy and the Turn to Law, in the P.R.C., in DEVELOPMENT AND DEMOCRACY: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON AN OLD DEBATE 252 (Sunder Ramaswamy & Jeffrey W. Cason eds., University Press of New England 2003).
Human Rights, Civil Wrongs and Foreign Relations: A 'Sinical' Look at the Use of U.S. Litigation to Address Human Rights Abuses Abroad, 52 DEPAUL L. REV. 473 (2003).
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The Roles of Law in the War on Terrorism, vol. 46, no. 2, ORBIS 301 (2002).
The China-Taiwan Relationship: Law's Spectral Answers to the Cross-Strait Sovereignty Question, vol 46, no. 4 ORBIS 733 (Fall 2002).
Humanitarian Intervention: Legality, Morality, and the Good Samaritan, vol. 45, no. 3 ORBIS 535 (2001).
China's Approach to International Law: A Historical Perspective, 94 AM. SOC'Y INT'L L. PROC. 267 (2000).
The Chinese Puzzle of Taiwan's Status, vol. 44, no. 1 ORBIS 35 (2000).
The P.R.C.'s Population and Family Planning Policies: Legal Issues and Social Consequences in the Mainland and the United States, in LIANG-AN SHE-HUI PIEN-CHIEN-CHUNG CHIA-TING YU-CHI HSIANG-KUAN WEN-TI HSUEH-SHU YEN-CHIU TAN-HUI HUI-I LUN-WEN-CHI 239 (Fu-jen Ta-hueh She-hui Wen-hua Yen-chiu Chung-hsin, 1999).
Lex Americana?: United States Legal Assistance, American Legal Models, and Legal Change in the Post-Communist World and Beyond, 20 U. PA. J. INTL ECON. L. 179 (1999).
Sovereignty Resumed: China's Conception of Law for Hong Kong, and its Implications for the SAR and US-PRC Relations, HARV. ASIA Q. 21 (Summer 1998).
Political Alchemy, the Long Transition and Law's Promised Empire: How July 1, 1997 Matters - and Doesnt Matter - in Hong Kong's Return to China, 18 U. PA. J. INT'L ECON. L. 69 (1997).
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