Remembering Jerome A. Cohen: A ChinaFile Conversation

Jerome Alan Cohen (July 1, 1930 – September 22, 2025) was a renowned American lawyer who was one of the foremost foreign scholars of Chinese law. After studying law at Yale, Cohen embarked on a career in constitutional law, clerking for Supreme Justices Earl Warren and Felix Frankfurter before beginning to teach law at the University of California, Berkeley. But at the age of 30 he pivoted,