{"id":259016,"date":"2026-07-13T16:39:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/eastward-westward-a-life-in-law-jerome-a-cohen-1\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:39:30","slug":"eastward-westward-a-life-in-law-jerome-a-cohen-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/eastward-westward-a-life-in-law-jerome-a-cohen-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastward Westward A Life In Law – Jerome A Cohen (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chicago, December 1953. The Cohen family in Tiananmen Square. Beijing, 2002. Harvard Law School\u2019s East Asian Legal Studies celebrates its fiftieth anniversary and the establishment of a professorship to honor Joan and Jerry. John T. (\u201cJack\u201d) Downey, one of Jerry\u2019s Yale classmates, arrives in Hong Kong in 1973 after almost twenty-one years in Chinese prison for \u201cespionage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jerry played an important role in securing his release. South Korean democratic leader Kim Dae-Jung visits the Cohens shortly before his kidnapping by the South Korean KCIA in 1973. Kim credited Jerry with saving his life. He was later elected as president of South Korea (1998\u20132003). Famed Philippine democratic leader Benigno \u201cNinoy\u201d Aquino. After gaining freedom from prison in Manila with Jerry\u2019s help, he spent the last year of his life at Harvard University at Jerry\u2019s invitation.<\/p>\n

He was assassinated upon his return to Manila in 1981. Jerry and his former Harvard student Annette Lu. He engineered her release from prison while Taiwan was still under dictatorship. Annette later became vice president in the Chen Shui-bian administration (2000\u20132008). Jerry presents the blind \u201cbarefoot lawyer\u201d Chen Guangcheng to the New York University crowd that welcomed his release from Chinese Communist custody, assisted by Jerry.<\/p>\n

New York, May 19, 2012. Source: Andy Jacobsohn \/ Stringer \/ Getty Images News via Getty Images. The high point of Jerry\u2019s first visit to China in 1972 was a four-hour dinner given for him and Harvard University professor John Fairbank by Chinese prime minister Zhou Enlai. OceanofPDF.com Making History in North Korea ne might have thought that trying to learn about communist China, to promote the normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and China, and to urge American withdrawal from the Vietnam war would have been enough to keep me busy.<\/p>\n

Yet I was fascinated by the problems of Korea, its history and international relations, and the experiences of South Korea\u2014the Republic of Korea (ROK)\u2014in seeking to modernize its legal system after the termination of Japanese colonialism at the end of World War II. After all, before the Japanese occupation at the start of the twentieth century, the Hermit Kingdom had for centuries been under China\u2019s influence, often seeming more Confucianist in theory and practice than even the homeland of the Sage, and the arch example of how countries in the much-debated Sinocentric sphere often paid tribute to the Celestial Emperor in Beijing.<\/p>\n

The East Asian Legal Studies (EALS) center that I established at Harvard Law School (HLS) in 1965 aimed to focus not only on China but also on all of East Asia, the entire former Confucian culture area, including, of course, Korea. Almost immediately after EALS was founded, relevant students began to turn up. Some, like Kim Young-Moo, were South Koreans who came to law school at Harvard on their own initiative after studying law in Seoul and were intent on becoming much-needed practitioners of international business law back home.<\/p>\n

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Cohen, Jerome Alan, author. Title: Eastward, Westward : a life in law \/ Jerome A Cohen. Description: New York : Columbia University Press, 2024. | Includes index. Identifiers: LCCN 2024024403 | ISBN 9780231215923 (hardback) | ISBN 9780231561044 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Cohen, Jerome Alan. | Lawyers\u2014United States\u2014Biography. | Human rights workers\u2014United States\u2014Biography. | Law teachers\u2014United States\u2014Biography | Law teachers\u2014 China\u2014Biography | Criminal procedure\u2014China.<\/p>\n

| Law Reform\u2014China. | Human rights\u2014China. | Human rights\u2014Taiwan. | Harvard Law School. East Asian Legal Studies Program. Classification: LCC KF373.C545 A3 2024 | DDC 340.092 [B]\u2014dc23\/eng\/20240602 LC record available at https:\/\/lccn.loc.gov\/2024024403 Printed in the United States of America Cover design: Noah Arlow Cover image: Courtesy of Jerome A. Cohen GPSR Authorized Representative: Easy Access System Europe, Mustam\u00e4e tee 50, 10621 Tallinn, Estonia, gpsr.requests@easproject.com OceanofPDF.com CONTENTS Preface: Better Late Than Never? Acknowledgments 1. CONFUCIUS SAID: \u201cESTABLISH YOURSELF AT THIRTY\u201d\u2014THE DECISION TO STUDY CHINA 2.<\/p>\n

GROWING UP AND GETTING EDUCATED 3. BEHIND THE HIGHEST BENCH: MY YEAR WITH CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN 4. AN UNPRECEDENTED SURPRISE: ANOTHER TERM, THIS TIME WITH JUSTICE FRANKFURTER 5. LAWYERING IN WASHINGTON: COVINGTON & BURLING, DEAN ACHESON, PROSECUTING CRIME, SENATOR FULBRIGHT 6. BERKELEY BECKONS: A BRAVE NEW ACADEMIC WORLD 7. STUDYING CHINA AT BERKELEY: SETTING THE STAGE FOR A LIFELONG EXPLORATION 8.<\/p>\n

HONG KONG BOUND: INTERVIEWING CHINESE REFUGEES 9. TRANSITION TO HARVARD 10. PASSIONATE PURSUITS: A NEW CHINA POLICY 11. BUILDING HARVARD\u2019S EAST ASIAN LEGAL STUDIES: STIMULATING RESEARCH, TALENTED STUDENTS, AND TIMELESS TIES 12. KYOTO CHRONICLES: A YEAR AMID JAPANESE TEMPLES AND TURMOIL 13. MY FIRST TRIP TO CHINA: MEETING ZHOU ENLAI, ARGUING FOR JACK DOWNEY 14. PYONGYANG PERSPECTIVES: MAKING HISTORY IN NORTH KOREA 15. SAVING FUTURE PRESIDENT KIM DAE JUNG\u2019S LIFE AND OTHER SOUTH KOREAN ADVENTURES 16. COOPERATING WITH TED KENNEDY ON AND IN CHINA 17.<\/p>\n

STIMULATING CHINA\u2019S NEW LEGAL SYSTEM: THE COUDERT BROTHERS YEARS 18. LEAVING HARVARD TO ESTABLISH PAUL, WEISS LAW OFFICES IN BEIJING AND HONG KONG 19. LIFE, LAW, AND CHINA PRACTICE IN THE OPTIMISTIC 1980S 20. POLITICAL JUSTICE IN TAIWAN: FREEING ANNETTE LU AND PROSECUTING HENRY LIU\u2019S ASSASSINS 21. THE DARK DAYS OF 1989: CHINA\u2019S TRAGEDY AND VIETNAM\u2019S PROMISE 22. ACADEMIC RENEWAL: CHARTING NYU\u2019S EAST ASIAN LAW PATH 23. BEFRIENDING CHEN GUANGCHENG: THE VISION OF CHINA\u2019S BLIND \u201cBAREFOOT LAWYER\u201d 24. WAS HELPING CHINA BUILD ITS POST-1978 LEGAL SYSTEM A MISTAKE?<\/p>\n

25. \u201cTHE CURFEW TOLLS THE KNELL OF PARTING DAY\u201d: \u201cTOMORROW WILL BE EVEN BETTER\u201d? Appendix Index OceanofPDF.com T PREFACE Better Late Than Never?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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