Eastward, Westward

A Life in Law

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Few Americans have done more than Jerome A. Cohen to advance the rule of law in East Asia. The founder of the study of Chinese law in the United States and a tireless advocate for human rights, Cohen has been a scholar, teacher, lawyer, and activist for more than sixty years. Moving among the United States, China, and Taiwan, he has encouraged legal reforms, promoted economic cooperation, mentored law students—including a future president of Taiwan—and brokered international crises.In this compelling, conversational memoir, Cohen recounts a dramatic life of striving for a better world from Washington, DC, to Beijing, offering vital first-hand insights from the study and practice of Sino-American relations. In the early 1960s, when Americans were not permitted to enter China, he met with émigrés in Hong Kong and interviewed them on Chinese criminal procedure. After economic reform under Deng Xiaoping, Cohen’s knowledge of Chinese law took on a new importance as foreign companies began to pursue business opportunities. Helping China develop and reconstruct its legal system, he made an influential case for the roles of Western law and lawyers. Cohen helped break political barriers in both China and Taiwan, and he was instrumental in securing the release of political prisoners in several countries. Sharing these experiences and many others, this book tells the full story of an unparalleled career bridging East and West.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-03-04
Mått:152 x 229 x 33 mm
Vikt:750 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:Columbia University Press
ISBN:9780231215923

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Jerome A. Cohen is professor emeritus at New York University School of Law, where he is also founder and faculty director emeritus of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute. He is an adjunct senior fellow for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Cohen is the author of several books on Chinese law, and for many years he was a practicing lawyer focused on China.

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Eastward, Westward: A Life in Law, outlines a life of rigorous intellectual balance and is essential reading to understand the evolution of the world’s most important bilateral relationship.

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Preface: Better Late Than Never?Acknowledgments1. Confucius Said: “Establish Yourself at Thirty”—The Decision to Study China2. Growing Up and Getting Educated3. Behind the Highest Bench: My Year with Chief Justice Warren4. An Unprecedented Surprise: Another Term, This Time with Justice Frankfurter5. Lawyering in Washington: Covington & Burling, Dean Acheson, Prosecuting Crime, Senator Fulbright6. Berkeley Beckons: A Brave New Academic World7. Studying China at Berkeley: Setting the Stage for a Lifelong Exploration8. Hong Kong Bound: Interviewing Chinese Refugees9. Transition to Harvard10. Passionate Pursuits: A New China Policy11. Building Harvard’s East Asian Legal Studies: Stimulating Research, Talented Students, and Timeless Ties12. Kyoto Chronicles: A Year amid Japanese Temples and Turmoil13. My First Trip to China: Meeting Zhou Enlai, Arguing for Jack Downey14. Pyongyang Perspectives: Making History in North Korea15. Saving Future President Kim Dae Jung’s Life and Other South Korean Adventures16. Cooperating with Ted Kennedy on and in China17. Stimulating China’s New Legal System: The Coudert Brothers Years18. Leaving Harvard to Establish Paul Weiss Law Offices in Beijing and Hong Kong19. Life, Law, and China Practice in the Optimistic 1980s20. Political Justice in Taiwan: Freeing Annette Lu and Prosecuting Henry Liu’s Assassins21. The Dark Days of 1989: China’s Tragedy and Vietnam’s Promise22. Academic Renewal: Charting NYU’s East Asian Law Path23. Befriending Chen Guangcheng: The Vision of China’s Blind “Barefoot Lawyer”24. Was Helping China Build Its Post-1978 Legal System a Mistake?25. “The Curfew Tolls the Knell of Parting Day”: “Tomorrow Will Be Even Better”?AppendixIndex