China's Rise and American Law

The project seeks to assess how today’s principal global conflict, a growing rivalry between the United States and China, is shaping the American legal system.  It will focus on three broad areas: civil rights and civil liberties, constitutional structure, and rationality in legal administration.  Case studies will include espionage investigations, state property bans, app bans, assignment restrictions, China-related executive orders, CFIUS, and foreign judgments recognition cases.  A key focus will be assessing the extent to which recent events are reproducing historic patterns and pathologies.  

Mark Jia

Mark Jia is Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University.  He specializes in comparative and transnational law, with a focus on the United States and China.  Before coming to Georgetown, Professor Jia was a fellow and lecturer at Harvard Law School. He clerked for Justice David Souter and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge William Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is a graduate of Princeton, Oxford, where he studied as a U.S. Rhodes Scholar, and Harvard Law School, where he was an articles co-chair of the Harvard Law Review. He is the National Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships for China.