Expert on Chinese law to lecture Nov. 10

Jerome A. Cohen, a leading American specialist on Chinese law, will present a lecture on “Criminal Justice & U.S.-China Relations” at 3 p.m. Nov. 10 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Cohen, professor of law at New York University and of counsel at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, has expertise in business law relating to Asia and has represented foreign companies in contract negotiations and dispute resolution in China, Vietnam and other countries of East Asia.

He serves as director of Asia Studies at the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations and is adviser to the government of Sichuan province in China.

A question-and-answer session and reception will be held after his talk, which is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies in the School of Law.

For more information, e-mail Linda McClain at lmcclain@wulaw.wustl.edu.

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