《美国的中国法研究：杰罗姆·柯恩教授纪念论文集》（Studies in Chinese Law: Essays in Honor of Professor Jerome A. Cohen）序言
许传玺（C. Stephen Hsu）
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This collection of essays celebrates Professor Jerome A. Cohen’s ground-breaking role in American scholarship on Chinese law. Authored by Professor Cohen’s former students and academic associates, the articles cover important topics in Chinese legal studies, ranging from ancient legal history to the contemporary legal process.
Widely recognized as the foremost American authority on Chinese law, Professor Cohen started his adult life in a way that presaged anything but a career in Chinese legal studies. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale College (B.A. in Political Science, 1951), Professor Cohen went on to Yale Law School in 1952 after spending the 1951-52 academic year as a Fulbright Scholar in France. He distinguished himself at Yale Law School, serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal and graduating first in his class in 1955. After then clerking at the Unites States Supreme Court for both Chief Justice Earl Warren (in 1955) and Justice Felix Frankfurter (in 1956), Professor Cohen was on the ideal path to becoming a public law professor at a major U.S. law school.
And that was exactly what he had in mind. After spending one year practicing law at a large, private law firm and another as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and a consultant to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Professor Cohen entered academia in 1959. A promising young professor at the University of California School of Law at Berkeley, Professor Cohen set out to teach administrative law. Little did he suspect that, although he had never been associated -- even remotely -- with China, China and its legal process was soon to become the focus of his career for over four decades up until the present day.
