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, conflict of laws, legal interpretation, and legal theory.
My scholarship has been 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 (Association of American Law Schools), the 2024 International Law and Technology Interest Group Scholarship Prize (American Society of International Law), and the 2025 Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award (The Future of Privacy Forum).
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 Articles Co-Chair of the Harvard Law Review. I am the National Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships for China.
Selected Works
The Possibilities of Constitutional Education, 64 Colum J. Transnat'l L. (Forthcoming 2026)
High Theory in Chinese Law, 103 Tex. L. Rev. 269, 381-420 (2024)
Authoritarian Privacy, 91 U. Chi. L. Rev. 733-809 (2024)
American Law in the New Global Conflict, 99 NYU L. Rev. 636-716 (2024)
Special Courts, Global China, 62 Va. J. Int'l L. 559-622 (2022)
Illiberal Law in American Courts, 168 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1685 (2020).
Chinese Common Law? Guiding Cases and Judicial Reform, 129 Harv. L. Rev. 2213 (2016)
Book Chapters
Interpreting Authoritarian Law, in The Oxford Handbook of Law and Authoritarianism (Cora Chan, Madhav Khosla, Benjamin Liebman & Mark Tushnet, eds., forthcoming). [SSRN]
China's Constitutional Moment, in Constitutional Moments in 21st Century Asia (Albert H.Y. Chen & Kevin Y.L. Tan eds., forthcoming). [SSRN]
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