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Tel: 215.573.8296
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: hchang@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Environmental Law
- Immigration Law
- Intellectual Property
- International Trade
- Law and Economics
Bio
Howard Chang writes on a wide variety of subjects, including immigration policy, international trade, and environmental protection.
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Howard Chang writes on a wide variety of subjects, including immigration policy, international trade, and environmental protection. His publications include A Liberal Theory of Social Welfare: Fairness, Utility, and the Pareto Principle (Yale Law Journal 2000) and Liberalized Immigration as Free Trade: Economic Welfare and the Optimal Immigration Policy (University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1997). Hisscholarship has also appeared in the Southern California Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, the Journal of Political Economy, and the RAND Journal of Economics. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association, and his interests include a broad range of topics in the economic analysis of law. In his most recent works, Chang argues that tax policies are more efficient than immigration restrictions as instruments for raising the after-tax incomes of the least skilled native workers and that even a limited liberalization of international migration would produce substantial increases in the world's real income and improve income distribution.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Earle Hepburn Professor of Law (2006- ); Professor of Law (1999-2006)
Law Clerk to Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Washington, DC (1988-89)
University of Southern California - Professor of Law (1997-99); Associate Professor of Law (1994-97); Assistant Professor of Law (1992-94)
Board of Directors, American Law & Economics Association (2004-07)
Visiting Professor – Georgetown, Stanford, Harvard, New York University, University of Michigan, University of Chicago
Representative Publications
Immigration Restriction as Redistributive Taxation: Working Women and the Costs of Protectionism in the Labor Market, 5 J. L. ECON. & POL'Y 1 (2009)
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Guest Workers and Justice in a Second-Best World,
34 U. DAYTON L. REV. 3 (2008) (symposium contribution).
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The Economics of International Labor Migration and the Case for Global Distributive Justice in Liberal Political Theory, 41 CORNELL INT'L L.J. 1 (2008).
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The Effect of Joint and Several Liability Under Superfund on Brownfields, 27 INT'L REV. L. & ECON. 363 (2007).
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The Economic Impact of International Labor Migration: Recent Estimates and Policy Implications, 16 TEMP. POL. & CIV. RTS. L. REV. 321 (2007).
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Cultural Communities in a Global Labor Market: Immigration Restrictions as Residential Segregation, 2007 U. CHI. L.F. 321.
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Environmental Trade Measures, the Shrimp-Turtle Rulings, and the Ordinary Meaning of the Text of the GATT, 8 CHAP. L. REV. 25 (2005).
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Risk Regulation, Endogenous Public Concerns, and the Hormones Dispute: Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself?, 77 S. CAL. L. REV. 743 (2004).
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Immigration and the Workplace: Immigration Restrictions as Employment Discrimination, 78 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 291 (2003), reprinted in 24 IMMIGR. & NATIONALITY L. REV. 445 (2003)
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Any Non-Welfarist Method of Policy Assessment Violates the Pareto Principle: A Comment, 111 J. POL. ECON. 1382 (2003) (with Marc Fleurbaey & Bertil Tungodden).
The Immigration Paradox: Poverty, Distributive Justice, and Liberal Egalitarianism, 52 DEPAUL L. REV. 759 (2003).
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Liberal Ideals and Political Feasibility: Guest-Worker Programs as Second-Best Policies, 27 N.C.J. INTL L. & COM. REG. 465 (2002).
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Public Benefits and Federal Authorization for Alienage Discrimination by the States, 58 N.Y.U. ANN. SURV. AM. L. 357 (2002).
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A Liberal Theory of Social Welfare: Fairness, Utility, and the Pareto Principle, 110 YALE L.J. 173 (2000).
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The Possibility of a Fair Paretian, 110 YALE L.J. 251 (2000).
Incentives to Settle Under Joint and Several Liability: An Empirical Analysis of Superfund Litigation, 29 J. LEGAL STUD. 205 (2000) (with Hilary Sigman).
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The Effect of Offer-of-Settlement Rules on the Terms of Settlement, 28 J. LEGAL STUD. 489 (1999) (with Lucian Arye Bebchuk).
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Migration as International Trade: The Economic Gains from the Liberalized Movement of Labor, 3 UCLA J. INT'L L. & FOREIGN AFF. 371 (1998-99), reprinted in 20 IMMIGR. & NATIONALITY L. REV. 339 (1999), excerpted in STEPHEN H. LEGOMSKY, IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE LAW AND POLICY 281 (3d ed. 2002).
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Liberalized Immigration as Free Trade: Economic Welfare and the Optimal Immigration Policy, 145 U. PA. L. REV. 1147 (1997).
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An Economic Analysis of Trade Measures to Protect the Global Environment, 83 GEO. L.J. 2131 (1995), reprinted in 27 LAND USE & ENVT L. REV. 611 (1996), excerpted in RICHARD L. REVESZ, FOUNDATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY 323 (1997).
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Patent Scope, Antitrust Policy, and Cumulative Innovation, 26 RAND J. ECON. 34 (1995).
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An Analysis of Fee-Shifting Based on the Margin of Victory: On Frivolous Suits, Meritorious Suits, and the Role of Rule 11, 25 J. LEGAL STUD. 371 (1996) (with Lucian Arye Bubchuk).
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Bargaining and the Division of Value in Corporate Reorganization, 8 J.L. ECON. & ORG. 253 (1992) (with Lucian Arye Bebchuk).
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The Economic Analysis of Immigration Law, in MIGRATION THEORY: TALKING ACROSS DISCIPLINES 205 (Caroline B. Brettell & James F. Hollifield eds., 2000).
Carrots, Sticks, and International Externalities, 17 INT'L REV. L. & ECON. 309 (1997).
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For additional publications, please consult
Current & Recent Research
Current Working Papers
The Immigration Paradox: Alien Workers and Distributive Justice (U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-15, July 16, 2008).
Implications of Globalization and Trade for Water Quality in Transboundary Rivers, work in progress, with Hilary Sigman.
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