'China's Law of the Sea'

Isaac B. Kardon is senior fellow for China studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is concurrently adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS and was formerly assistant professor at the U.S. Naval War College, where he served as a research faculty member in the China Maritime Studies Institute. Kardon's research focuses on the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s maritime power, with specialization in maritime disputes and the international law of the sea. Kardon earned a BA in history from Dartmouth College, an MPhil in modern Chinese studies from Oxford University, and a PhD in government from Cornell University. He was a China and the World post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University and has held visiting appointments at NYU School of Law, Academia Sinica, and the PRC National Institute for South China Sea Studies.

Commander Delicia Gonzales Zimmerman is an associate professor in the national security law department at the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School. She earned a BA in American government and politics at the University of Texas at Austin, a JD from Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University, and an MA in national security policy studies at the U.S. Naval War College. She has practiced as an attorney with the U.S. Navy since 2003.

Aynne Kokas is the C. K. Yen Professor at the Miller Center, director of the University of Virginia's East Asia Center, and a professor of media studies at UVA. A Fulbright scholar educated at the University of Michigan, with a PhD from UCLA, Kokas is a fellow in the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on U.S. China Relations. She is the author of Hollywood Made in China, a study of the partnerships between Chinese and American producers to produce feature films for global audiences. Her latest book, Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty, examines how weak U.S. data security benefits U.S. firms while expanding the Chinese government's digital control. Her research has been supported by the Library of Congress, National Endowment for the Humanities, Mellon Foundation, and Social Science Research Council.