Howard Chang, Professor of Law, presented "A Liberal Theory of Social Welfare: Fairness, Utility, and the Pareto Principle" at seminars at NYU School of Law in January, the Wharton School in March, the annual meetings of the American Law and Economics Association in May, and at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Summer Institute in August. He also presented "The Economic Analysis of Immigration Law" at the University of Michigan Law School in February.

The Economic Analysis of Immigration Law, in Migration Theory: Talking Across the Disciplines, eds. Caroline B. Brettell & James F. Hollifield (Forthcoming 2000).
Migration as International Trade: The Economic Gains from the Liberalized Movement of Labor, 3 UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 371 (1998-99),reprinted in 20 Immigration and Nationality Law Review, ed. Gabriel J. Chin, (Forthcoming 2000).
Incentives to Settle Under Joint and Several Liability: An Empirical Analysis of Superfund Litigation (with Hilary Sigman), 29 Journal of Legal Studies 205 (2000).
The Economic Effects of Immigration and the Case for Liberalizing Reforms, 4 Bender's Immigration Bulletin 497 (1999).
The Effect of Offer-of-Settlement Rules on the Terms of Settlement (co-author Lucian Bebchuk), 28 Journal of Legal Studies 489 (1999).
Environmental Trade Measures and the GATT: Lessons from the Shrimp-Turtle Case, Institute of Cetacean Research, Report of the Round-Table Conference on Conservation and Management of Marine Living Resources and International Trade Policy 53 (1999). --

Jacques deLisle, Professor of Law, continues to serve as a consultant and expert witness during litigation in U.S. courts on issues of Chinese economic law, as well as on China's human rights conditions in political asylum proceedings. At Middlebury College, for a Ford Foundation conference reexamining the relationship between development and democracy, he presented a paper titled "Chasing the God of Wealth and Evading the Goddess of Democracy: Development, Democracy and Law in China." He also presented "Montevideo Games and a Chinese Puzzle: The P.R.C., International Law and the Taiwan Question" at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, where he also addressed "The Taiwan Relations Act: Durable Agreement or Fraying Framework?" As a fellow at the Salzburg Seminar session on "East Asia-United States: A Search for Common Values," he spoke on political and legal aspects of contemporary U.S.-East Asian relations.

America as Solon?: United States Legal Assistance, Exports of Legal Models and the Support of Democracy, Economic Reform and the Rule of Law in China, the Former Soviet Bloc, and Other Nations in Transition, in Reciprocal Influences and Evolving Legal Systems, ed. John C. Reitz, (Metro Press, Forthcoming 2001).
A Chinese Solution?: Development Without Democracy, and the Turn to Law in the P.R.C., in Democracy and Development: Reexamining the Relationship, eds. Jeffrey Cason & Sunder Ramaswamy, (University Press of New England, Forthcoming 2001).
China's Current Engagement with the International Legal Order: A Historical Perspective, 94 American Society of International Law Proceedings (Forthcoming 2000).
The Chinese Puzzle of Taiwan's Status, 44 Orbis, no.1, 35 (2000).
Lex Americana: United States Legal Assistance, American Legal Models, and Legal Change in the Post-Communist World and Beyond, 20 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law 179 (1999).
The Taiwan Question, Sino-American Relations 22 (1999).
The P.R.C.'s Population and Family Planning Policies: Legal Issues and Social Consequences in the Mainland and the United States, Liang-an She-hui Pien-ch'ien-chung Chia-t'ing yh-ch'i Hsiang-kuan Wen-t'i Hsheh-shu Yen-chiu T'an-hui Hui-i Lun-wen-chi 239 (Fu-jen Ta-hsheh She-hui Wen-hua Yen-chiu Chung-hsin) (Taiwan: 1999)
China's Illiberal Constitutionalism: Borrowing Techniques and Creating Power, University of Pennsylvania Law School Journal of Constitutional Law (1998).
The East Asian Debate on International Human Rights: Domestic Approaches and Attitudes in the Absence of Regional Commitments, 92 American Society of International Law Proceedings 64 (1998).
Sovereignty Resumed: China's Conception of Law for Hong Kong, and its Implications for the SAR and US-PRC Relations, Harvard Asia Quarterly 21 (1998).