Jacques deLisle

Jacques deLisle
Born (1961-06-21) June 21, 1961
Other names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 academic specializing in the law and politics of China, China's international relations, Taiwan's international status and cross-Strait relations, and legal and political issues in Hong Kong during and after its return to Chinese rule. He is the Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law and a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and chair of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.[1][2]

DeLisle is co-editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law,[3] a member of the U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee on International Law,[4] and an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.[5]

Education and career

DeLisle received a A.B. in public and international affairs from Princeton University in 1982, a J.D. from Harvard Law School and pursued a doctorate in political science in the Government Department of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He clerked for Stephen Breyer (then chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit) before working for the Office of Legal Counsel in 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.[6][7]

Selected publications

  • deLisle, Jacques; Goldstein, Avery, eds. (2014). China's Challenges. University of Pennsylvania Press. JSTOR j.ctt9qh43f.[8]
  • deLisle, Jacques; Goldstein, Avery; Yang, Guobin, eds. (2016). The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812223514. JSTOR j.ctt1b3t8nr.[9]
  • deLisle, Jacques; Goldstein, Avery, eds. (2017). China's Global Engagement: Cooperation, Competition, and Influence in the 21st Century. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 9780815729693. JSTOR 10.7864/j.ctt1hfr0wn.[10]
  • deLisle, Jacques; Goldstein, Avery (2019). To Get Rich Is Glorious: Challenges Facing China's Economic Reform and Opening at Forty. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 9780815737254. JSTOR 10.7864/j.ctvbd8m70.[11]
  • deLisle, Jacques; Goldstein, Avery, eds. (2021). After Engagement: Dilemmas in U.S.-China Security Relations. Brookings Institution Press. JSTOR 10.7864/j.ctv11hpt2r.
  • deLisle, Jacques; Yang, Guobin, eds. (2022). The Party Leads All: The Evolving Role of the Chinese Communist Party. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 9780815739517.[12]

References

  1. ^ "Jacques deLisle". www.law.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  2. ^ "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 2024-01-01.
  3. ^ "American Journal of Comparative Law". Retrieved March 20, 2026.
  4. ^ "2025 Current Fiscal Year Report: Advisory Committee on International Law". {{cite web}}: line feed character in |title= at position 69 (help)
  5. ^ "Annuaire – AIDC-IACL". Retrieved 2026-03-20.
  6. ^ "Jacques deLisle". University of Pennsylvania Law School. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  7. ^ "Jacques deLisle". University of Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Contemporary China. Retrieved 1 May 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. ISBN978 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: 1–2. doi:10.1017/S0305741023000449.