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Howard F. Chang
Earle Hepburn Professor of Law

Howard F. Chang
Earle Hepburn Professor of Law

Tel: 215.573.8296
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: hchang@law.upenn.edu

Expertise

  • Immigration Law
  • Environmental Law
  • Intellectual Property
  • International Trade
  • Law and Economics

Bio

Howard Chang has written on a wide variety of subjects, including immigration policy, international trade, and environmental protection. [More]
Howard Chang has written on a wide variety of subjects, including immigration policy, international trade, and environmental protection. 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. His work includes publications in the Yale Law Journal, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the RAND Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Legal Studies. He began teaching at the University of Southern California Law School and has taught as a visiting law professor at Georgetown University, Stanford University, Harvard University, New York University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Chicago.

He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he served as the Supervising Editor of the Harvard Law Review, his Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University, and his A.B. in government from Harvard College. He served as a law clerk for the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. [Hide]

Representative Professional Positions

Penn Law - Earle Hepburn Professor of Law (2006 -); Professor of Law (1999-06)

Law Clerk to Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Washington, DC (1988-89)

Visiting Professor – Georgetown; Stanford; Harvard; New York University; University of Michigan; University of Chicago

Board of Directors, American Law & Economics Association (2004-07)

University of Southern California - Professor of Law (1997-99); Associate Professor of Law (1994-97); Assistant Professor of Law (1992-94)

Representative Publications

The Economics of International Labor Migration and the Case for Global Distributive Justice in Liberal Political Theory, 40 CORNELL INT'L L.J. (forthcoming 2007).
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The Effect of Joint and Several Liability Under Superfund on Brownfields, 27 INT'L REV. L. & ECON. (forthcoming 2007). - 05/22/07
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The Economic Impact of International Labor Migration: Recent Estimates and Policy Implications, 16 TEMP. POL. & CIV. RTS. L. REV. (forthcoming 2007).
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Cultural Communities in a Global Labor Market: Immigration Restrictions as Residential Segregation, U. CHI. L.F. (forthcoming 2007).
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Immigration Restrictions as Employment Discrimination, in CROSS-BORDER HUMAN RESOURCES, LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT ISSUES: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 54TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON LABOR 95 (Andrew P. Morriss & Samuel Estreicher eds., 2005).

Environmental Trade Measures, the Shrimp-Turtle Rulings, and the Ordinary Meaning of the Text of the GATT, 8 CHAPMAN L. REV. 25 (2005).

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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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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Non-Welfariest Paretian Methods of Policy Assessments, (U. Pa. Inst. L. & Econ., Paper No. 01-18, 2001).
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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).

Toward a Greener GATT: Environmental Trade Measures and the Shrimp-Turtle Case, 74 S. CAL. L. REV. 31 (2000).
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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).

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).
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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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Current & Recent Research

Current Working Papers

Implications of Globalization and Trade for Water Quality in Transboundary Rivers, work in progress, with Hilary Sigman.

 
Howard Chang

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Education

  • Ph.D. (economics) - MIT - '92
  • S.M. - MIT - '88
  • J.D. - Harvard - '87
  • M.P.A. (econ. & pub. policy) - Princeton - '85
  • A.B. - Harvard - '82

Courses Taught

  • Immigration Law
  • International Trade Regulation
  • International Environmental Law
  • Environmental Regulation
  • Intellectual Property

Research Areas

  • Immigration Policy
  • International Trade
  • Environmental Policy
  • Law and Economics

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