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Jacques deLisle

Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law & Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for the Study of Contemporary China

Jacques deLisle’s research and teaching focus on contemporary Chinese law and politics, including: legal reform and its relationship to economic reform and political change in China, the international status of Taiwan and cross-Strait relations, China’s engagement with the international order, legal and political issues in Hong Kong under Chinese rule, and U.S.-China relations.

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 also a professor of political science, director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, co-director of the Center for Asian Law, and director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. 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.

Education

  • JDHarvard1990
  • ABPrinceton1982

Courses Taught

  • Chinese Law| China and International Law| Law and the Economy in Contemporary China| International Law| Torts| China in Transition| China and International Human Rights Law

Expertise

    • International and Comparative Law
    • Torts, Restitution, and Insurance Law

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The Chinese Model of Law, China’s Agenda in International Law, and Implications for Democracy in Asia and Beyond in Democratization, National Identity, and Foreign Policy in Asia 38-59 (Gilbert Rozman, ed., Routledge, 2021)

Taiwan’s Quest for International Space in the Tsai Era: Adapting Old Strategies to New Circumstances in Taiwan in the Era of Tsai Ing-wen: Changes and Challenges 239-283 (June Teufel Dreyer and Jacques deLisle, eds. Routledge, 2021)

When the Fever Breaks?: COVID-19, U.S.-China Relations, and East Asia, Orbis, vol. 65, no. 2, 231-256 (Spring 2021)

Foreign Policy through Other Means: Hard Power, Soft Power, and China’s Turn to Political Warfare to Influence the United States, Orbis, vol. 64, no. 2, 174-206 (Spring 2020)

Authoritarian Legality in East Asia: What, Why, and Whither? in Authoritarian Legality in Asia: Formation, Development and Transition 17-59 (Weitseng Chen and Hualing Fu, eds. Cambridge, 2020)

Hong Kong’s Summer of Discontent: Another Battle in the Long War over Autonomy, Democracy, and the Rule of Law, Orbis, vol. 63, no. 3, 473-504 (Fall 2019)

Working Papers

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China’s Legal System in Politics in China: An Introduction 224-253 (3rd edition, William A. Joseph, ed., Oxford, 2019)

working papers

United States-Taiwan Relations: Tsai’s Presidency and Washington’s Policy, The China Review, vol. 18, no. 3, 13-59 (2018)

working papers

China’s Maritime Disputes in the South and East China Seas: What Role for International Law? in China’s Global Engagement: Cooperation, Competition, and Influence in the 21st Century 235-290 (Jacques deLisle and Avery Goldstein, eds., Brookings, 2017)

working papers

Law in the China Model 2.0: Legality, Developmentalism and Leninism under Xi Jinping in Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 26, no. 103, 68-84 (2016)

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