Jacques deLisle

Jacques deLisle is the Stephen A. Cozen professor of law, professor of political science (secondary appointment), and director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as the chair of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. His scholarship focuses on China’s engagement with the international order, Taiwan’s international status and cross-Strait relations, law and legal institutions and their relationship to politics and policy in the PRC, legal and political issues in Hong Kong under Chinese rule, and U.S.-China relations. His work has appeared in Journal of Contemporary China, Asia Policy, China Review, Orbis, Administrative Law Review, Hong Kong Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, and other academic and policy journals and edited volumes. He is the co-editor of, and contributor to, Chinese Developmentalism in the Global Legal and Economic Order (2026); The Party Leads All: The Role of the Chinese Communist Party in China’s Politics, Governance, Society, Economy, and External Relations (2022), After Engagement: Dilemmas in U.S.-China Security Relations (2021), Taiwan in the Era of Tsai Ing-wen (2021), To Get Rich is Glorious: Challenges Facing China’s Economic Reform and Opening at Forty (2019), China’s Global Engagement: Cooperation, Competition, and Influence in the 21st Century (2017), The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China (2016); Political Changes in Taiwan under Ma Ying-jeou (2014), and China’s Challenges (2014). He is also co-editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law, president of the American Association for Chinese Studies, a member of the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Council on International Law, and former director of Penn’s Center for East Asian Studies.