Jerome A. Cohen
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Jerome A. Cohen is a professor of law at New York University School of Law and an expert in Chinese law. His Chinese name is Kong Jierong (孔杰荣).
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[edit] Biography
Cohen received his B.A. degree from Yale University in 1951 and J.D. from Yale Law School in 1955.
Cohen joined the faculty of University of California at Berkeley School of Law in 1959, then went to Harvard Law School in 1964. He became a Professor of Law at New York University School of Law in 1990.
Cohen was influential in securing the releases of John T. Downey and Richard Fecteau in the early 1970s. Downey and Fecteau had been held in a Chinese prison since the Korean War.
[edit] Works
- Investment Law and Practice in Vietnam (Longman, 1990)
- Contract Law of the People's Republic of China (Longman, 1988) (with Yvonne Y.F. Chan and Ho Yuk Ming)
- People's China and International Law (Princeton University Press, 1974) (with H.D. Chiu)
- The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of China, 1949-63: An Introduction (Harvard University Press, 1968)
[edit] See also
- Derk Bodde (1909-2003): U.S. scholar of ancient Chinese law and society
- William P. Alford: current Harvard University scholar of Chinese law
