Jacques deLisle

Director, Asia Program
Foreign Policy Research Institute

Jacques deLisle is Director of FPRI’s Asia Program and Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in US-China relations, Chinese politics and legal reform, cross-strait relations, and the international legal status of Taiwan.

His publications in Orbis include “Democratization in Greater China” (PDF) (2004), “SARS, Greater China and the Politics of Globalization and Transition" (2003) “Law’s Spectral Answers to the Cross-Strait Sovereignty Question” (PDF) (2002), “The Chinese Puzzle of Taiwan’s Status” (2000), “The Roles of Law in the War on Terrorism” (2002), and “Humanitarian Intervention: Legality, Morality, and the Good Samaritan” (2001).

He regularly publishes commentaries on Asian affairs as FPRI E-notes and in other media.  Other recent scholarly publications include China Under Hu Jintao: Opportunities, Dangers and Dilemmas (co-edited with T.J. Cheng and Deborah Brown, 2005); “Development without Democratization? China, Law and the East Asian Model” in Comparative Democratizations (Jose Ciprut, ed. forthcoming 2006); “Atypical Pneumonia and Ambivalent Law and Politics: SARS and the Response to SARS in China” Temple Law Review (2004), “Reforming / Replacing the ROC Constitution: Implications for Taiwan’s State(-like) Status and U.S. Policy,” Woodrow Wilson International Center Asia Program Special Report (2004), “The Common Law of Causation in Tort and Questions of Policy and Institutions in the Development of Chinese Tort Law,” in Fazhi Cankao [Legal Materials] (in Chinese 2004).

His articles also have appeared in Sino–American Relations, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law, American Society of International Law Proceedings, Harvard Asia Quarterly, and edited volumes.  He serves regularly as an expert witness on issues of P.R.C., Hong Kong and Taiwan law and government policies.  He is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, vice-chair of the Pacific Rim section of the American Society of International Law, and a consultant, lecturer and advisor to foreign-assisted legal reform, development and education programs, primarily in the PRC.  He received a J.D. and graduate education in political science at Harvard.

Jacques deLisle
Director
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Asia Program
Foreign Policy Research Institute
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