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About the talk:
International legal rules generally serve the international political interests of reducing the likelihood of conflict and promoting stability while condemning and perhaps deterring disruptive change. Key among these rules are those concerning territorial sovereignty, maritime jurisdiction, and the self-determination of peoples. These rules have perverse effects, and are conducive to conflict, escalation, uncertainty and instability in the peculiar and distinctive, but geopolitically significant, contexts of the diverse territorial disputes along China’s periphery.

About the speaker:
Jacques deLisle is the Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania, and Chair of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. His writings, on China’s engagement with the international order, Taiwan’s international status and cross-Strait relations, law and legal institutions and their relationship to politics and policy in the PRC, Hong Kong’s trajectory under Chinese rule, and US-China relations have appeared in Journal of Contemporary China, Asia Policy, China Review, Orbis, Administrative Law Review, and other academic and policy journals and edited volumes. He is the co-editor of, and contributor to, The Party Leads All: The Role of the Chinese Communist Party in China’s Politics, Governance, Society, Economy, and External Relations (2022), After Engagement: Dilemmas in U.S.-China Security Relations (2021), Taiwan in the Era of Tsai Ing-wen (2021), To Get Rich is Glorious: Challenges Facing China’s Economic Reform and Opening at Forty (2019); China's Global Engagement: Cooperation, Competition, and Influence in the 21st Century (2017); The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China (2016); Political Changes in Taiwan under Ma Ying-jeou (2014), and China’s Challenges (2014). He is also co-editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law, president of the American Association for Chinese Studies, and a member of the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Council on International Law.

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