Professor Jerome Cohen, co-founder and faculty director emeritus of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, discussed China’s use of law as a tool for repression and the need to continue studying Chinese law in an interview with The Wire China.

Asked: “What is the one thing you'd like others to take away from your experience and long career?” he replied:

People shouldn’t abandon China. They should learn more from history, keep an open mind, not accept every formulation or explanation of our own government, and understand to what extent domestic politics can interfere.
And I would still urge people, as I have for half a century, to go into this field. It’s a fascinating field. It’s very, very important.

Professor Cohen has a forthcoming memoir, Eastward, Westward, A Life in Law, to be published by Columbia Press in February.

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