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Current & Recent Research at Penn Law

The Penn Law faculty are engaged in a wide array of scholarship in traditional, cross-disciplinary and cutting-edge areas of inquiry. This newly created section of our website, which we will continue to populate in the months ahead, gives you access and the ability to search current and earlier work.

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A Liberal Theory of Social Welfare: Fairness, Utility, and the Pareto Principle, 110 YALE L.J. 173 (2000).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Economics, Law and Society, Moral and Political Philosophy, Social Welfare

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).
Date Posted: September 14, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang

Any Non-Welfarist Method of Policy Assessment Violates the Pareto Principle: A Comment, 111 J. POL. ECON. 1382 (2003) (with Marc Fleurbaey & Bertil Tungodden).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Economics, Law and Society, Moral and Political Philosophy, Social Science and the Law, Social Welfare

Bargaining and the Division of Value in Corporate Reorganization, 8 J.L. ECON. & ORG. 253 (1992) (with Lucian Arye Bebchuk).
Date Posted: September 14, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Bankruptcy Law, Economics

Carrots, Sticks, and International Externalities, 17 INT'L REV. L. & ECON. 309 (1997).
Date Posted: September 14, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Economics, International Law, Trade Regulation

Cultural Communities in a Global Labor Market: Immigration Restrictions as Residential Segregation, 2007 U. CHI. L.F. 321.
Date Posted: September 14, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Economics, Immigration Law, Labor Economics, Trade Regulation

Guest Workers and Justice in a Second-Best World, 34 U. DAYTON L. REV. 3 (2008) (symposium contribution).
Date Posted: January 29, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Employment Discrimination Law, Immigration Law, Labor Economics

Immigration Restriction as Redistributive Taxation: Working Women and the Costs of Protectionism in the Labor Market, 5 J. L. ECON. & POL'Y 1 (2009)
Date Posted: June 05, 2008
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Social Sciences, Law and the Global Community, Taxation
Keywords: Economics, Feminism, Gender Studies, Immigration Law, Income Taxation, International Trade, Labor Economics, Law and Equality, Race Relations, Women

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)
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Labor Law
Keywords: Employment Discrimination Law, Immigration Law, Labor Law

Incentives to Settle Under Joint and Several Liability: An Empirical Analysis of Superfund Litigation, 29 J. LEGAL STUD. 205 (2000) (with Hilary Sigman).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and Regulatory Systems, Law and the Environment
Keywords: Environmental Law, Government Regulation, Litigation, Practice and Procedure

Liberal Ideals and Political Feasibility: Guest-Worker Programs as Second-Best Policies, 27 N.C.J. INTL L. & COM. REG. 465 (2002).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Economics, Immigration Law, Labor Economics, Social Welfare

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).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Immigration Law, Social Welfare, Taxation-Transnational

Public Benefits and Federal Authorization for Alienage Discrimination by the States, 58 N.Y.U. ANN. SURV. AM. L. 357 (2002).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Government Regulation, Immigration Law, Separation of Powers, Social Welfare

Reasonable Emissions of Greenhouse Gases: Efficient Abatement For A Stock Pollutant, 155 U. PA. L. REV. 1869 (2007) (symposium comment).
Date Posted: June 17, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and the Environment
Keywords: Economics, Environmental Law, Law and Technology

Risk Regulation, Endogenous Public Concerns, and the Hormones Dispute: Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself?, 77 S. CAL. L. REV. 743 (2004).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and Regulatory Systems, Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Administrative Law, Animal Law, International Trade, Risk, Trade Regulation

The Disadvantages of Immigration Restriction as a Policy to Improve Income Distribution (symposium contribution), 61 SMU L. REV. 23 (2008).
Date Posted: September 17, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Social Sciences, Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Economics, Immigration Law, Law and Equality, Legal Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy

The Economic Analysis of Immigration Law, in MIGRATION THEORY: TALKING ACROSS DISCIPLINES 205 (Caroline B. Brettell & James F. Hollifield eds., 2000).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Economics, Immigration Law

The Economic Impact of International Labor Migration: Recent Estimates and Policy Implications, 16 TEMP. POL. & CIV. RTS. L. REV. 321 (2007).
Date Posted: November 20, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Social Sciences, Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Economics, Immigration Law, International Trade, Labor Economics

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).
Date Posted: May 16, 2007
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Law and Social Sciences, Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Economics, Immigration Law, Moral and Political Philosophy

The Effect of Joint and Several Liability Under Superfund on Brownfields, 27 INT'L REV. L. & ECON. 363 (2007).
Date Posted: February 20, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Authors: Howard F. Chang and Hilary Sigman
Subjects: Law and Business, Law and Economics, Law and Social Sciences, Law and the Environment
Keywords: Environmental Law, Real Estate, Torts

The Effect of Offer-of-Settlement Rules on the Terms of Settlement, 28 J. LEGAL STUD. 489 (1999) (with Lucian Arye Bebchuk).
Date Posted: August 31, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Dispute Resolution, Economics, Jurisprudence, Litigation

The Immigration Paradox: Alien Workers and Distributive Justice (U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-15, July 16, 2008).
Date Posted: July 23, 2008
Publication Date: July 16, 2008
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and Economics, Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence, Law and Social Sciences, Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Economics, Immigration Law, Law and Equality, Moral and Political Philosophy, Politics, Race Relations, Social Science and the Law

The Immigration Paradox: Poverty, Distributive Justice, and Liberal Egalitarianism, 52 DEPAUL L. REV. 759 (2003).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Immigration Law, Labor Economics, Poverty Law, Social Welfare

The Possibility of a Fair Paretian, 110 YALE L.J. 251 (2000).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Howard F. Chang
Subjects: Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Law and Society, Legal Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy, Social Welfare