James V. Feinerman
Professor, Georgetown University Law School
Professor Feinerman received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures from Yale University, both in 1979. Immediately after law school he studied at Peking University 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. From 1983 until 1985, he was Administrative Director of East Asian Legal Studies and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. He joined the Georgetown University Law Center faculty as a visiting professor for the 1985-86 academic year. In Fall 1986, he was a Fulbright researcher at Kyoto University 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 at the National Academy of Sciences. Professor Feinerman served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Bar Association's China Law Reporter from 1986-1998. From 2001-2005, he served as Georgetown University Law Center’s Associate Dean for International and Graduate Programs. He spent Spring 2006 as Fulbright Senior Distinguished Lecturer at Tsinghua University Law School in Beijing.