Jacques Louis deLisle (born June 21, 1961) is an American legal scholar and political scientist currently serving as Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania and chair of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
[1][2] DeLisle holds a BA in public and international affairs at Princeton University in 1982, and pursued a doctorate in political science (all but dissertation) in the Government Department of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
He completed his Juris Doctor at Harvard Law School, then clerked for Stephen Breyer 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.
In 2010, deLisle received a secondary appointment as professor of political science.