Jacques deLisle

Jacques deLisle
Born (1961-06-21) June 21, 1961 (age 65)
Other name戴杰
EducationPrinceton University (BA)
Harvard University (JD)
OccupationsPolitical scientist, legal scholar
Employer(s)University of Pennsylvania, Foreign Policy Research Institute

Jacques deLisle (born June 21, 1961) is an American legal scholar and sinologist. He specializes in the study of Chinese law and politics, China's international relations, and cross-strait relations. He is the Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also a professor of political science.

DeLisle is Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania, co-editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law, a member of the U.S. State Department's Advisory Council on International Law, a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, former President of the American Association for Chinese Studies and Chair of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Education and career

DeLisle graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in international affairs in 1982. He then earned his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1990 and completed research towards a doctorate, all but dissertation, at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He clerked for Chief Judge (later Justice) Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit before working for the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1994, deLisle joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty as an assistant professor of law. He was promoted to full professor in 1999, and became Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law in 2006. In 2010, deLisle received a secondary appointment as professor of political science.

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ "American Journal of Comparative Law". Retrieved March 20, 2026.
  2. ↑ "2025 Current Fiscal Year Report: Advisory Committee on International Law".
  3. ↑ "Annuaire – AIDC-IACL". Retrieved March 20, 2026.
  4. ↑ "Jacques deLisle". www.law.upenn.edu. Retrieved January 1, 2024.
  5. ↑ "FPRI Appoints Michael Beckley as Director of the Asia Program and Jacques deLisle as Chair of the Asia Program - Foreign Policy Research Institute". www.fpri.org. Retrieved January 1, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Jacques deLisle". University of Pennsylvania Law School. Retrieved May 1, 2023.
  7. ↑ "Jacques deLisle". University of Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Contemporary China. Retrieved May 1, 2023.
  8. ↑ Reviews of China's Challenges include:
  9. ↑ Reviews of The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China include:
    • Hassid, Jonathan (July 2017). "The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China, edited by Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, and Guobin Yang. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. vi+284 pp. US$49.95/£32.50 (paper)". The China Journal. 78: 158–160. doi:10.1086/691709. JSTOR 26559306.
    • Schneider, Florian (February 2017). "The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China, written by Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, and Guobin Yang". Asiascape: Digital Asia. 4 (1–2): 147–157. doi:10.1163/22142312-12340073.
    • Han, Rongbin (December 2016). "The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China". The China Quarterly. 228. doi:10.1017/S0305741016001326. JSTOR 26291606. ProQuest 1854072538.
    • "Reviewed work: The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China by Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, Guobin Yang". Contemporary Sociology. 47 (2): 246. March 2018. JSTOR 26425124.
    • Huang, Ronggui (2018). "The internet, social media, and a changing China". Chinese Journal of Communication. 11 (1): 131–133. doi:10.1080/17544750.2018.1426375.
  10. ↑ Reviews of China's Global Engagement include:
    • Cheung, Hok Wong (March 2019). "Jacques deLisle and Avery Goldstein, Eds., China's Global Engagement: Cooperation, Competition, and Influence in the twenty-first Century". Journal of Chinese Political Science. 24 (1): 177–178. doi:10.1007/s11366-018-09591-x. ProQuest 2150946575.
    • Fulton, Jonathan (September 2017). "China's global engagement: cooperation, competition, and influence in the 21st century. Edited by Jacques deLisle and Avery Goldstein. Washington DC: Brookings. 2017. 439pp. Index. Pb.: £27.50. ISBN 978 0 81572 969 3. Available as e-book". International Affairs. 93 (5): 1283–1284. doi:10.1093/ia/iix148.
  11. ↑ Pasquali, Paola (2021). "Forty Years of China's Economy: A Historical Perspective". The International Spectator. 56 (1): 146–148. doi:10.1080/03932729.2020.1851965.
  12. ↑ Mittelstaedt, Jean Christopher (2023). "The Party Leads All: The Evolving Role of the Chinese Communist Party Edited by Jacques DeLisle and Guobin Yang. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. viii + 427 pp. $49.79; £45.15 (pbk). ISBN 9780815739517". The China Quarterly. FirstView: 511–512. doi:10.1017/S0305741023000449.