Jacques deLisle

Jacques Louis deLisle is an American legal scholar and political scientist currently serving as Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania and chair of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Education and career

DeLisle received a B.A. in public and international affairs from Princeton University in 1982, and pursued a doctorate in political science in the Government Department of the Harvard Graduate [School of Arts and Sciences]. He completed his Juris Doctor at Harvard Law School, then clerked for Stephen Breyer before working for the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1994, deLisle joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty as an assistant professor of law. He was promoted to full professor in 1999, and became Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law in 2006. In 2010, deLisle received a secondary appointment as professor of political science.