POSTPONED: Taiwan’s Place in the World
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
9:00 AM U.S. Eastern Time
This event is postponed. New date TBD.
About the event:
After decades of gaslighting by the world community, Taiwan is having a moment. Its success in containing COVID-19, its facemask donations, and its peaceful democratic elections have won praise and contrasted positively with Beijing’s authoritarian behavior. The Trump administration sent senior officials to visit the island, and President Biden invited Taiwan’s envoy to attend his inauguration. Australia, New Zealand, and Japan have joined the US to advocate for Taiwan to participate in the World Health Assembly. Fifty years after Taiwan was ejected from the United Nations, USALI Director Emeritus Jerome A. Cohen and USALI Affiliated Scholar Yu-Jie Chen will discuss the prospects for Taiwan regaining a voice on the world stage.
Further reading:
Why does the WHO exclude Taiwan? by USALI Affiliated Scholar Yu-Jie Chen and Faculty Director Emeritus Jerome A. Cohen
Taiwan and the World Health Assembly: The Politics of Invitation by Affiliated Scholar Yu-Jie Chen
About the Speakers:
Jerome A. Cohen is the U.S.-Asia Law Institute’s faculty director emeritus, a retired law professor at NYU School of Law, and a leading American expert on Chinese law and government. Professor Cohen was a pioneer in studying and teaching about China’s legal system in the 1960s. He introduced the teaching of Asian law into the Harvard Law School curriculum, where he was the Jeremiah Smith Professor, associate dean, and director of East Asian legal studies. Professor Cohen also served for several years as the C.V. Starr senior fellow and director of Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he currently is an adjunct senior fellow. He has published hundreds of scholarly articles as well as opinion pieces for various newspapers.
Yu-Jie Chen is an assistant research professor at the Law Institute of Taiwan’s Academia Sinica and an affiliated scholar at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute. Her research focuses on human rights and international law and relations, particularly in the context of China, Taiwan, and China-Taiwan relations. Professor Chen received her J.S.D. and LL.M. degrees from NYU School of Law. She also holds an LL.M. and LL.B. from National Chengchi University in Taiwan. She was an inaugural global academic fellow at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. Before that, she was a research scholar at USALI and a researcher and advocate for the non-governmental organization Human Rights in China. She practiced in the Taipei-based international law firm Lee and Li early in her career.