Jerome A. Cohen is a professor at
New York University School of Law, co-director of its U.S.-Asia Law Institute,
and an adjunct senior fellow for Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Articles by
Jerome A. Cohen
Chinese attendants close the curtains at the end of the National People's Congress in Beijing on March 14, 2005. (Cancan Chu/Getty Images)
China rape victim's mother Tang Hui (L) sits in the Hunan Provincial People's High Court in Changsha, central China's Hunan province on July 15, 2013. The court awarded damages to the mother of a rape victim after she was sent to a labour camp for demanding her daughter's attackers be punished, a spokesman said on July 15. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
US Marines amphibious assault vehicles (AAV) speed past a landing ship during an amphibious landing exercise on a beach at San Antonio in Zambales province on April 21, 2015, as part of annual Philippine-US joint maneuvers some 220 kilometres (137 miles) east of the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. The Philippines voiced alarm April 20 about Chinese "aggressiveness" in disputed regional waters as it launched giant war games with the United States that were partly aimed as a warning shot to Beijing. AFP PHOTO/TED ALJIBE (Photo credit should read TED ALJIBE/AFP/Getty Images)
BEIJING, CHINA - JUNE 03: Chinese Paramilitary police officers stand guard below a portrait of the late leader Mao Zedong in front of the Forbidden City at Tiananmen Square on June 4, 2014 in Beijing, China. Twenty-five years ago on June 4, 1989 Chinese troops cracked down on pro-democracy protesters and in the clashes that followed scores were killed and injured. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
BEIJING, CHINA - DECEMBER 28: (CHINA OUT) A visitor takes photos near the National Center for the Performing Arts on December 28, 2015 in Beijing, China. Beijing welcame sunny days after several-days' heavy smog last week. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou wave to journalists during a meeting at Shangrila hotel in Singapore on November 7, 2015. The leaders of China and Taiwan hold a historic summit that will put a once unthinkable presidential seal on warming ties between the former Cold War rivals. AFP PHOTO / MOHD RASFAN (Photo credit should read MOHD RASFAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) and Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou wave to journalists before their meeting at Shangrila hotel in Singapore on November 7, 2015. The leaders of China and Taiwan hold a historic summit that will put a once unthinkable presidential seal on warming ties between the former Cold War rivals. AFP PHOTO / Roslan RAHMAN (Photo credit should read ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
CHONGQING, CHINA: CHINA OUT Chinese police parade a gang of robbers who will face the death penalty for the murders they committed, at a public rally in the southwestern city of Chongqing, 17 November 2004. China executes around 10,000 convicted criminals every year, according to estimates by Chinese academics, five times more than all the death penalty cases from other nations combined. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
