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Tel: 215.573.6400
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: efeldman@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Health Law
- Torts
- Comparative Law
- Japanese Law
- Law and Society
Bio
Eric Feldman’s expertise is in Japanese law, comparative public health law, and law and society.
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Eric Feldman’s expertise is in Japanese law, comparative public health law, and law and society. His books and articles explore the comparative dimensions of rights, dispute resolution, and legal culture, often in the context of urgent policy issues including the regulation of smoking, HIV/AIDS, and other aspects of the health care system. Feldman has twice been a Fulbright Scholar in Japan, and has also been a Visiting Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and at the University of Trento in Italy, as well as a Visiting Scholar at Waseda University’s Graduate School of Law in Tokyo. He has received grants and fellowships from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Bar Association, the National Science Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, among others. Prior to joining the Penn Law faculty, he spent five years as the Associate Director of the Institute for Law and Society at New York University. He is the author of The Ritual of Rights in Japan: Law, Society, and Health Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2000), the co-editor of Blood Feuds: AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster (Oxford University Press, 1999) and Unfiltered: Conflicts over Tobacco Policy and Public Health (Harvard University Press, 2004), and has published academic articles in edited volumes and journals including the California Law Review, Law in Japan, American Journal of Comparative Law, Los Angeles Times, Social and Legal Studies, Hastings Center Report, Lancet, Law and Society Review, and the Michigan Journal of International Law.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Professor of Law (2006 -); Assistant Professor (2001-2006)
Penn - Bioethics, Senior Fellow - (2001-).
Institute for Law and Society, NYU - Associate Director (1996 - 2001)
Visiting Professor - Waseda University, Japan; Seikei University, Japan; Institut d'Etudes, Politiques de Paris; University of Trento, Italy
Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale - Health Policy Research Scholar (1994-96)
Trustee (elected), Law and Society Association, 2003-2006.
World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS/Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS - Consultant (1995-96)
Representative Publications
Legal Reform in Contemporary Japan, in EMERGING RIGHTS IN JAPANESE LAW (Harry Scheiber & Laurent Mayali, eds., University of California Press, forthcoming 2007).
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Law, Culture, and Conflict: Dispute Resolution in Postwar Japan, in LAW IN JAPAN: A TURNING POINT? (Daniel Foote ed., University of Washington Press, forthcoming 2007).
New Lower Nicotine Cigarettes Produce Compensatory Smoking and Increased Carbon Monoxide Exposure, 86 DRUG & ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE 294 (2007) (with Andrew A. Strasser, Caryn Lerman, Paul M. Sanborn, and Wallace B. Pickworth).
The Tuna Court: Law and Norms in the World’s Premier Fish Market, 94 CAL. L. REV. (2006).
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The Culture of Legal Change: A Case Study of Tobacco Control in 21st Century Japan, 27 MICH. J. INT’L L. (2006).
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Lessons from the Comparative Study of Tobacco Control, in UNFILTERED: CONFLICTS OVER TOBACCO POLICY AND PUBLIC HEALTH (with Ronald Bayer, ed., Harvard Univ. Press 2004).
The Limits of Tolerance: Cigarettes, Politics, and Society in Japan, in UNFILTERED: CONFLICTS OVER TOBACCO POLICY AND PUBLIC HEALTH (with Ronald Bayer, ed., Harvard Univ. Press 2004).
Legal Reform and Medical Malpractice Litigation in Japan: Justice, Policy, and the Expert Witness System, 76 HORITSU JIHO 16 (2004). (in Japanese).
UNFILTERED: CONFLICTS OVER TOBACCO POLICY AND PUBLIC HEALTH (with Ronald Bayer, ed., Harvard Univ. Press 2004).
The Landscape of Japanese Tobacco Policy: Law, Smoking, and Social Change, 49 AM. J. COMP. L. 679 (2001).
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A Comparative Look at Tobacco Control: The Law, Politics, and Ethics of Smoking in the US and Japan, 22 REV. ASIAN & PAC. STUD. (Oct. 2001).
Blood Justice: Courts, Conflict, and Compensation in Japan, France, and the US, 34 LAW & SOC'Y REV. 651 (2000).
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THE RITUAL OF RIGHTS IN JAPAN: LAW, SOCIETY, AND HEALTH POLICY (Cambridge Univ. Press 2000).
BLOOD FEUDS: AIDS, BLOOD, AND THE POLITICS OF MEDICAL DISASTER (with Ronald Bayer ed., Oxford Univ. Press 1999).
HIV and Blood in Japan: Transforming Private Conflict into Public Scandal, in BLOOD FEUDS: AIDS, BLOOD, AND THE POLITICS OF MEDICAL DISASTER (with Ronald Bayer ed., Oxford Univ. Press 1999).
Testing the Force: HIV, the Military, and Human Rights in Australia, 13 AIDS & PUB. POL'Y J. 85 (1998).
Rapid Self-Testing for HIV Infection (M. Merson, E. Feldman, R. Bayer, J. Stryker), 349 THE LANCET 352 (1997).
Patients' Rights, Citizen's Movements, and Japanese Legal Culture, in COMPARING LEGAL CULTURES (David Nelkin ed., Dartmouth Publishing Company 1997).
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Education
- Ph.D. (jurisprud. & soc. pol.) - University of California, Berkeley - '94
- J.D. - University of California, Berkeley - '89
- B.A. - Vassar - '82
Courses Taught
- Law and Society in Japan
- Torts
- Law and Social Policy
- Law and Science
- Tobacco: Law, Policy, and Ethics
Research Areas
- Japanese Law
- Law and Society
- Comparative Law
- Public Health Law
- Bioethics
- HIV/AIDS
- Tobacco
- Law and Norms
- Medical Malpractice
- Vaccination Law/Policy/Ethics
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