Jacques DeLisle, JD Professor, School of Law University of Pennsylvania School of Law 3400 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19104 Phone: 215-898-5781 Fax: 215-898-5781 E-mail: jdelisle@law.upenn.edu Website: http://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/jdelisle/index.cfm?showBio=true

Biography

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.

Research

• 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).

Videos

The Henry L. Stimson Center - Dynamic Growth, Stability and Social Change in China

Jacques deLisle, the Stephen A. Cozen professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, and director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, discusses the dynamic growth and change occurring within China. There are growing socio-economic divides both among and between rural and urban-dwellers.

Courses

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