Jerome Alan Cohen (b. 1930) served on the Harvard Law School faculty from 1964 to 1989. He was a Visiting Professor of Law 1964-1965; Professor of Law 1965-1981; Associate Dean 1975-1980; Jeremiah J. Smith, Jr. Professor of Law 1981; and a Lecturer on Law 1981-1985, 1986-1987, and 1988-1989. He served as Director, East Asian Legal Studies 1964-1979.
Research: Chinese law and legal tradition, international business transactions with China and East Asia, international and comparative law.
Education: Yale College B.A. 1951; Yale Law School J.D. 1955.
Selected Scholarship / Representative Publications: “The Criminal Process in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-63″ (1968); “Challenge to China: How Taiwan Abolished its Version of Re-Education Through Labor” (co-author, 2013).
Noteworthy Appointments: Professor and Professor Emeritus, New York University School of Law, appointed 1990; Faculty Director, U.S.-Asia Law Institute, New York University School of Law; C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director of Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations.