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639:(김대중), who would later become president and receive the Nobel Peace Prize. In August, 1973, Cohen received an urgent call from Kim's aide, telling him that Kim had been kidnapped by Korean intelligence officials in Tokyo and imploring Cohen to request Henry Kissinger's help. Cohen did and Kim's life was saved, although Kim later reported that he had been bound and blindfolded aboard a boat with weights tied to his wrists, before the execution was suddenly called off. 505:, and, when no clear candidate emerged, decided to pursue the opportunity himself. He began studying the Chinese language, but as Americans were not permitted to enter China at the time, he could only travel as far as Hong Kong, where he met with refugees and questioned them on Chinese criminal procedure. These interviews served as the basis for his book, "The Criminal Process of the People's Republic of China: 1949–1963." 624:, a Taiwanese-American author critical of the martial law government, Cohen served as a pro-bono representative of Liu's widow at the trial in Taipei. On appeal of what he thought was a show trial convicting reputed gangsters, he sought to show that the government was directly involved in the plot. The sentences were upheld, and later, Taiwan's chief of military intelligence was also convicted for his involvement. 281: 539:
Following China's economic reforms in 1979, Cohen's obscure specialty of Chinese law was thrust into the spotlight as foreign companies began to consider investment opportunities. When he was offered the opportunity to live and practice in Beijing in exchange for teaching American contract law to
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Over the course of his career, Cohen has been a tireless advocate for human rights. In addition to striving for legal reforms in China, he has been instrumental in realizing the release of political prisoners, including
936:, June 21, 1951. Accessed May 19, 2021. "Jerome Alan Cohen, of 623 North Wood avenue, was awarded the degree of bachelor of arts at the 230th commencement of Yale University.... He is a graduate of Linden High School." 512:, where he would remain for 17 years, and created the school's East Asia Legal Studies Association. During this time, Cohen advocated for normalized relations with China, and was influential in securing the release of 716: 572:, a librarian at Dickinson College who was charged in China for selling intelligence overseas after he mailed newspapers, books, and Red Guard posters to the U.S. He regularly uses his bi-weekly column in the 609:(呂秀蓮) who had been a student of Cohen's at Harvard and who would later become vice-president of Taiwan. Cohen asked his former student Ma Yingjeou who was now secretary to the Republic of China's President 583:, after Chen escaped from house arrest in 2012. After a series of negotiations between the U.S. and Chinese governments, Chen was allowed to travel to the U.S. and become a fellow at New York University. 1087: 547:
Following the suppression of student uprising in Tiananmen Square in 1989, Paul Weiss closed its Hong Kong Office, and Cohen returned to the United States where he became a Professor of Law at
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commerce officials, Cohen took a sabbatical from Harvard. When the sabbatical concluded in 1981, he decided to remain in China and work at the law firm of
1117: 876: 467:. Following graduation, he spent a year in France as a Fulbright scholar studying international relations before returning to Yale and earning his 1122: 520:, accused of being a CIA operative. In 1972, Cohen was able to make his first trip to the Chinese mainland as part of a delegation of the 559:. At NYU, he established the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, dedicated to facilitating the development of the rule of law throughout Asia. 521: 381: 364: 852:"Cohen urges Taiwan President Ma (LL.M. '76) to establish commission to probe reports of detentions, brutality | NYU School of Law" 1092: 1077: 509: 298: 617:. A week after Cohen arrived in Taiwan, Lu was freed. Ma has never commented on his role in Lu's release but Cohen is grateful. 1072: 456: 345: 428: 302: 135: 317: 1082: 1029: 801: 420: 149: 385: 324: 688: 516:
in the early 1970s. Downey, a former classmate of Cohen's from Yale, had been held in a Chinese prison since the
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in 1959. It was here that he was asked to find a candidate for a four-year grant to study China offered by the
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Cohen is an advocate of human rights in China, and has taken active roles in securing the release of
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Cohen's influence has been particularly strong in Taiwan where his former student,
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The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of China, 1949–63: An Introduction
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In 1985, Cohen played a key role in securing the release of political prisoner
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to intervene. Lu had been sentenced to 12 years in prison for her role in the
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NYU's US-ASIA Law Institute directed by Cohen and publishing his recent work
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from under Chinese custody. His former students include Taiwanese president
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In 1972, Cohen became the first American academic to visit North Korea.
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as a platform to criticize rights violations in China and Taiwan.
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In South Korea, Cohen was able to intervene in the kidnapping of
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in 1955. While at Yale, he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the
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Cohen's writings regularly appear in Hong Kong's English daily
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Cohen assisted and advised Chinese civil rights activist
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Cohen was originally known in Chinese as Kong Jierong (
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Also in 1985, following the murder in California of
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Cohen also serves on the Board of Directors for the
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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison people
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