Jerome Cohen

Jerome Cohen (孔傑榮/柯恩) is a professor at NYU School of Law and co-director of its U.S.-Asia Law Institute. This is his personal website hosting his lifelong work and many interesting stories on law and Asia, especially China, Taiwan, South and North Korea and Japan.

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HK's extradition law: Not just HK people have reason to fear Chinese “justice”

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By Jerome A. Cohen It’s not only “Hong Kong people” whose fate is at stake here. Anyone passing through Hong Kong airport could be detained and sent to China (compare the Huawei Vancouver extradition case). Even people who have been extradited by a third jurisdiction to Hong Kong could be subject t