Mark Jia
mark.jia@georgetown.edu
I am an associate professor of law at Georgetown. I write in comparative and transnational law, with particular focus on the United States and China. My research broadly seeks to understand the relationship between law and authoritarianism and between law and geopolitics. Recent works have addressed questions of constitutional law, international law, privacy law, legal interpretation, and legal theory.
My scholarship has been or will be published in the University of Chicago Law Review, the New York University Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Texas Law Review, and other journals. My articles have won several awards, including the 2022 Mark Tushnet Prize from the Association of American Law School’s Section on Comparative Law and the 2024 Scholarship Prize from the American Society of International Law's International Law and Technology Interest Group.
Before the academy, I was an appellate lawyer and law clerk to 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. I am a graduate of Princeton, Oxford, where I studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and Harvard Law School, where I was an articles co-chair of the Harvard Law Review. I serve currently as the National Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships for China.
Selected Publications
High Theory in Chinese Law, 103 Tex. L. Rev. (forthcoming). [SSRN]
Authoritarian Privacy, 91 U. Chi. L. Rev. 733-809 (2024). [WWW]
American Law in the New Global Conflict, 99 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 636-716 (2024). [WWW]
Illiberal Law in American Courts, 168 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1685 (2020). [WWW]
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