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Email: jdelisle@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Chinese Law and Politics
- Comparative Law
- International Law
Bio
Jacques deLisle’s research and teaching focus on contemporary Chinese law and politics, including: the relationships between legal and political change in China; law and economic reform in China; China’s approach to international law; Taiwan’s international status and relations with China; Hong Kong’s transition to and development under Chinese rule; and public international law.
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Jacques deLisle’s research and teaching focus on contemporary Chinese law and politics, including: the relationships between legal and political change in China; law and economic reform in China; China’s approach to international law; Taiwan’s international status and relations with China; Hong Kong’s transition to and 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. DeLisle is director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute 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 and is a consultant, lecturer and advisor to legal reform, development and education programs, primarily in China.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law (2006- ); Professor (1999-2006); Assistant Professor (1994-99)
Law Clerk to Chief Judge Stephen G. Breyer, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1991-92)
Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice - Attorney-Advisor (1992-94)
University of Pennsylvania - Faculty of the Center for East Asian Studies (1996- )
Director, Asia Program, Foreign Policy Research Institute (2002- )
Vice Chair, Pacific Rim Interest Group, American Society of International Law (2003- )
Representative Publications
International Pressures and Domestic Pushback, in POLITICAL CHANGE IN CHINA: COMPARISONS WITH TAIWAN (Bruce Gilley & Larry Diamond eds., 2008).
Legalization without Democratization in China under Hu Jintao, in CHINA’S CHANGING POLITICAL LANDSCAPE (Cheng Li ed., 2008).
“One World, Different Dreams”: The Contest to Define the Beijing Olympics, in OWNING THE OLYMPICS (Monroe Price & Daniel Dayan eds., 2008).
Development without Democratization? China, Law and the East Asian Model, in DEMOCRATIZATIONS: COMPARISONS, CONFRONTATIONS AND CONTRASTS (Jose V. Ciprut ed., 2008).
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 (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).
Atypical Pneumonia and Ambivalent Law and Politics: SARS and the Response to SARS in China, 77 TEMP. L. REV. 193 (2004).
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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 China-Taiwan Relationship: Law's Spectral Answers to the Cross-Strait Sovereignty Question, vol 46, no. 4 ORBIS 733 (Fall 2002).
The Roles of Law in the War on Terrorism, vol. 46, no. 2, ORBIS 301 (2002).
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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