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James V. Feinerman


Co-Director, Georgetown Law Asia, James M. Morita Professor of Asian Legal Studies

B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale; J.D., Harvard

Areas of Expertise:

Banking and Finance, Comparative and Foreign Law, International Law

Professor Feinerman joined the Law Center faculty as a visiting professor for the 1985-86 academic year. Immediately after law school he studied in the People's...

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Professor Feinerman joined the Law Center faculty as a visiting professor for the 1985-86 academic year. Immediately after law school he studied in the People's Republic of China. Subsequently, he joined the New York firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell as a corporate associate. During 1982-83, Professor Feinerman was Fulbright Lecturer on Law at Peking University. In 1986, he was a Fulbright researcher in Japan. In 1989, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship to study China's practice of international law. During the 1992-93 academic year, he was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. From 1993-95, on leave from the Law Center, Professor Feinerman was the Director of the Committee on Scholarly Communication with China. Professor Feinerman served as Editor-in-Chief of the ABA's China Law Reporter from 1986-1998. Also, Professor Feinerman was the Co-editor of The Limits of the Rule of Law in China (2001), and Co-Author of China After the WTO:What You Need to Know Now(2001).

Recent Scholarship

Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress

  • James V. Feinerman, The Chinese - Aren't They "Human"?, (forthcoming).   
  • James V. Feinerman, The Dian Transaction: Family, Property, and Violence in China, (forthcoming).   
  • James V. Feinerman, Two Decades of Delinquency: Chinese Approaches to the Problem of Juvenile Delinquency, (forthcoming).   

All Scholarship 2000 - Present

Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress

  • James V. Feinerman, The Chinese - Aren't They "Human"?, (forthcoming).   
  • James V. Feinerman, The Dian Transaction: Family, Property, and Violence in China, (forthcoming).   
  • James V. Feinerman, Two Decades of Delinquency: Chinese Approaches to the Problem of Juvenile Delinquency, (forthcoming).   

Books

  • China After the WTO: What You Need to Know Now (James V. Feinerman & B. Thomas Peele III eds., New York: Practising Law Institute 2001).    [BOOK]
  • The Limits of the Rule of Law in China (James V. Feinerman, Karen Turner-Gottschang & R. Kent Guy eds., Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press 2000).    [BOOK]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • James V. Feinerman et al., China, 42 Int'l Law. 945-974 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • James V. Feinerman, Robert L. Oakley: In Memoriam, 100 Law Libr. J. 223-225 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • James V. Feinerman, Odious Debt, Old and New: The Legal Intellectual History of an Idea, 70 Law & Contemp. Probs. 193-220 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • James V. Feinerman, New Hope for Corporate Governance in China?, 2007 China Q. 590-619.    [WWW]
  • James V. Feinerman & John H. Jackson, China's WTO Accession Survey of Materials, 4 J. Int'l Econ. L. 329-335 (2001).    [HEIN]
  • James V. Feinerman, Eulogy, In Memoriam: September 11, 2001, 33 Law & Pol'y Int'l Bus. 1-2 (2001).    [HEIN] [L]

Book Chapters and Collected Works

  • James V. Feinerman, Sovereignty, Old and New: Another Look at Taiwan's International Legal Status, in Membership for Taiwan in the United Nations: Achieving Justice and Universality 91-108 (Lung-chu Chen ed., New York: New Century Institute Press 2007).   
  • James V. Feinerman, The U.S.-Korean Status of Forces Agreement as a Source of Continuing Korean Anti-American Attitudes, in Korean Attitudes Toward the United States: Changing Dynamics 196-212 (David I. Steinberg ed., Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe 2005).   
  • James V. Feinerman, The Rule of Law Imposed from Outside: China’s Foreign-Oriented Legal Regime Since 1978, in The Limits of the Rule of Law in China 304-324 (James V. Feinerman, Karen Turner-Gottschang & R. Kent Guy eds., Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press 2000).    [BOOK]

Congressional Testimony

  • China's Information Control Practices and the Implications for the United States: Hearing Before the U.S.-China Econ. & Sec. Review Comm'n, 111th Cong., June 30, 2010 (Statement of James V. Feinerman) (CIS-No.: 2011-J891-68).    [L] [WWW]
  • UN Human Rights Council's Review of China's Record: Process and Challenges: Hearing Before the Cong.-Exec. Comm'n on China, 111th Cong., Jan. 16, 2009 (Statement of James V. Feinerman) (CIS-No.: 2009-J891-7).   
  • Democracy in Hong Kong: Hearing Before the Subcomm. on East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the S. Comm. on Foreign Relations, 108th Cong., Mar. 4, 2004 (Statement of James V. Feinerman) (CIS-No.: 2004-S381-40).    [Gtown Law]
  • The Rule of Law in China: Lawyers Without Law?: Hearing Before the Cong.-Exec. Comm'n on China, 108th Cong., Apr. 1, 2003 (Statement of James V. Feinerman) (CIS-No.: 2003-J891-19).    [Gtown Law]
  • Human Rights in China in the Context of the Rule of Law: Hearing Before the Cong.-Exec. Comm'n on China, 107th Cong., Feb. 7, 2002 (Statement of James V. Feinerman) (CIS-No.: 2002-J891-9).    [Gtown Law]

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