Attorney visiting UH shares insight on China

Beijing stands on the brink of legal reform amid calls for justice, Jerome Cohen says

By Michael Tsai

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jan 13, 2013

~~<p>When the longest-practicing and most venerated Western legal figure in China surveys the Chinese cultural landscape, reflects on the growth of the country's legal community, and ponders the implications of the latest shuffling of national leadership, he sees a metaphor appropriate for his current gig as visiting professor at the University of Hawaii's William S. Richardson School of Law.</p>
<p>"China's leaders are sitting on a volcano," says Jerome Cohen.</p>
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When the longest-practicing and most venerated Western legal figure in China surveys the Chinese cultural landscape, reflects on the growth of the country's legal community, and ponders the implications of the latest shuffling of national leadership, he sees a metaphor appropriate for his current gig as visiting professor at the University of Hawaii's William S. Richardson School of Law.