Jacques deLisle (born June 21, 1961) is an American academic specializing in the law and politics of China, China's international relations, Taiwan's international status and cross-Strait relations, and legal and political issues in Hong Kong during and after its return to Chinese rule. He is the Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law and a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and chair of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
DeLisle is co-editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law, a member of the U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee on International Law, and an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.
DeLisle received a A.B. in public and international affairs from Princeton University in 1982, a J.D. from Harvard Law School and pursued a doctorate in political science in the Government Department of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He clerked for Stephen Breyer (then chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit) before working for the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1994, deLisle joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty as an assistant professor of law. He was promoted to full professor in 1999, and became Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law in 2006. In 2010, deLisle received a secondary appointment as professor of political science.