
Jerome A. Cohen
Jerome A. Cohen is an American legal scholar focused on Chinese law, and an advocate of human rights in China since the 1970s. He is professor emeritus at New York University School of Law, and an adjunct senior fellow for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Cohen is the author, co-author and editor of several books…
Jerome A. Cohen is an American legal scholar focused on Chinese law, and an advocate of human rights in China since the 1970s. He is professor emeritus at New York University School of Law, and an adjunct senior fellow for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Cohen is the author, co-author and editor of several books on Chinese law, and most recently the memoir Eastward, Westward: A Life in Law (2025).