He pioneered the study of Chinese law, was among the first foreigners to practice commercial law in China and spoke out about human rights there. By Chris Buckley Jerome A. Cohen, who pioneered the ...

Jerome A. Cohen was an academic and legal pioneer who almost single-handedly created the field of Chinese legal studies in the United States. Trained as a constitutional lawyer, he made a ...

China's former Chongqing Municipality Communist Party Secretary Bo Xilai looks on during a meeting at the annual session of China's parliament, the National People's Congress, at the Great Hall of the ...

In classical Chinese law, cruelty disrupted cosmic order and sentience carried moral weight. Under Xi Jinping, legality has been restructured to preempt such claims entirely. This third essay in the ...

U.S. litigation imposed discovery obligations, preservation requirements and procedural timelines that had no direct equivalent in the Chinese legal system. Navigating those differences required ...