BIO
Jacques deLisle
is an expert in contemporary Chinese law, China's approach to
international legal issues, and Chinese politics.
He has
written extensively on the law and politics of the People's Republic of China,
Taiwan's international status, the law and politics of Hong Kong's transition to
Chinese rule, transnational legal influences and public international law with
an emphasis on China. Director of Asia Programs at the Foreign Policy
Research Institute, he is also Professor of Law at the
University of Pennsylvania, and is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. He has also served as 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. He received his J.D. from Harvard University.
CLASSES
DYNM 704: China in Transition, Greater
China, and the US
DYNM 753/754:
China in Transition
RESEARCH AND
PUBLICATIONS
RECENT AND FORTHCOMING
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).
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).
LINKS
CONTACT
University of Pennsylvania Law School
3400 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Telephone:
215-898-5781
Fax: 215-573-2025
E-mail: jdelisle@law.upenn.edu