Jerome A. Cohen is a pioneer in the field of Chinese legal studies in the United States. His storied career began in the early 1960s, when he studied China’s legal system. Cohen’s 1968 book The Criminal Process in the People’s Republic of China, 1949- 1963: An Introduction became a foundational text in the field, establishing him as an authority and leaving him with a host of former students and mentees scattered across the landscape of China scholars, lawyers, officials and activists. His