I wouldn’t get to know him until many years later, by which point he was not only the reigning authority on the subject but the beloved mentor and champion of generations of Chinese lawyers, scholars, and activists.
fredag 17. oktober 2025
Remembering Jerome A. Cohen: A ChinaFile Conversation
Jerome Alan Cohen (July 1, 1930 – September 22, 2025) was a renowned American lawyer who was one of the foremost foreign scholars of Chinese law. After studying law at Yale, Cohen embarked on a career in constitutional law, clerking for Supreme Justices Earl Warren and Felix Frankfurter before beginning to teach law at the University of California, Berkeley. But at the age of 30 he pivoted, beginning to study Chinese language and the People’s Republic of China’s legal system. After the resumption of diplomatic relations between China and the U.S. he became the first American lawyer to practice in China.
I wouldn’t get to know him until many years later, by which point he was not only the reigning authority on the subject but the beloved mentor and champion of generations of Chinese lawyers, scholars, and activists.
I wouldn’t get to know him until many years later, by which point he was not only the reigning authority on the subject but the beloved mentor and champion of generations of Chinese lawyers, scholars, and activists.
