Ju-ao, Mei

Mei Ju-ao (Chinese: 梅汝璈, 1904–1973) was a Chinese jurist, legislator and author. After graduating from Tsinghua School in 1924, Mei Ju-ao studied in the United States and in 1926 was awarded a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University, and elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society the same year. Mei went on to study law at University of Chicago Law School, where he obtained a Juris Doctor in 1928. In 1946–48, Mei was the Chinese member of the judges in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East’s trials of Japanese war crimes committed during the Second World War.