Jim Chen joined the University of Louisville in January, 2007 where he served as dean of Louis D. Brandeis School of Law from 2007-2012. Professor Chen is a prolific and influential scholar whose works span subjects such as administrative law, agricultural law, constitutional law, economic regulation, environmental law, industrial policy, legislation, and natural resources law. He is the coauthor of Disasters and the Law: Katrina and Beyond (Aspen Publishers, 2006), the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the legal issues surrounding natural disasters. This pathbreaking book is now in its second edition under the title Disaster Law and Policy. He provides expert advice on the law of regulated industries, particularly telecommunications. Professor Chen has also taught courses in criminal law and food and drug law.

Professor Chen's lectures have spanned fifteen countries, four continents, and three languages. In 1995, he held a chaire départementale in the Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Politiques of the Université de Nantes. In 1999, he became the first American to teach law as a visiting professor at Heinrich-Heine Universität in Düsseldorf. He taught in 2000 at Slovenská Pol'nohospodárska Univerzita v Nitre (the Slovak Agricultural University in Nitra).

From July 1993 to January 2007, Professor Chen taught at the University of Minnesota Law School. In his final years at Minnesota, Professor Chen served as that school's associate dean. He was an editor of Constitutional Commentary and the faculty editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology. He also served as faculty advisor to the Minnesota Law Review and Law & Inequality. Within the University of Minnesota's Conservation Biology Program, Professor Chen served as a member of the graduate faculty.

Professor Chen received his B.A. degree, summa cum laude, and his M.A. degree from Emory University. After studying as a Fulbright Scholar at Háskóli Íslands (the University of Iceland), he earned his J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from the Harvard Law School, where he served as an executive editor of the Harvard Law Review. He clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and for Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States.

In addition to compiling an extensive record in traditional legal scholarship, Professor Chen has emerged as an innovative master of online media. He maintains an official blog called The Cardinal Lawyer.

As the founder and administrator of the Jurisdynamics Network, Professor Chen presides over one of the most intellectually stimulating and visually striking families of law-related websites. The network's flagship weblog, Jurisdynamics, is dedicated to the subjects and methodological tools that most vividly depict the law's interaction with societal and technological change. Other affiliated weblogs include MoneyLaw, BioLaw, Agricultural Law, Commercial Law, Ratio Juris, Law and Technology Theory, First Movers, Law Blog Central, and The Scientific Lawyer.

For further information on Professor Chen, please consult his curriculum vitae. Professor Chen's SSRN page  provides further access to his published articles, accepted articles, and working papers. Professor Chen's abstracts on SSRN generate an RSS feed . That feed is also available in a human-friendly digest . You may also interact with Professor Chen on Facebook , Cardinal Circle , LinkedIn , Plaxo , and Bit.ly .

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Selected works in progress

Creamskimming and Competition

Modeling Law Review Impact Factors as an Exponential Distribution

First Person Plural

La Constitución de los Estados Unidos en Español: Un Servicio para el Pueblo Americano

Price-Level Regulation and Its Reform

Access to Knowledge: Defining and Measuring Economic, Legal, and Human Capital

MoneyLaw: The Art of Winning an Unfair Academic Game

Darwin's Practical Joke: The Adaptive Origins of Creationist Mythology

From Holmes' Law to Ohm's Law

The Implied Repeal of the Second Amendment by the Fourteenth

Books

Disaster Law and Policy (Daniel A. Farber, Jim Chen, Robert R.M. Verchick, and Lisa Grow Sun eds., Aspen Publishers, 2009)

Disasters and the Law: Katrina and Beyond (Daniel A. Farber and Jim Chen eds., Aspen Publishers, 2006)

The Jurisdynamics of Environmental Protection: Change and the Pragmatic Voice in Environmental Law (Jim Chen ed., Environmental Law Institute 2003)

Introduction — The Jurisdynamics of Environmental Protection: Evolving Visions of Eco-Pragmatism, in The Jurisdynamics of Environmental Protection, supra, at xiii

Across the Apocalypse on Horseback: Imperfect Legal Responses to Biodiversity Loss, in in The Jurisdynamics of Environmental Protection, supra, at 197

Articles, book chapters, and book reviews

Food and Superfood: Organic Labeling and the Triumph of Gay Science Over Dismal and Natural Science in Agricultural Policy, 48 Idaho L. Rev. (forthcoming 2012)

Progressive Taxation: An Aesthetic and Moral Defense, 50 U. Louisville L. Rev. 659 (2012)

A Degree of Practical Wisdom: The Ratio of Educational Debt to Income as a Basic Measurement of Law School Graduates’ Economic Viability, 38 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 1185 (2012)

Modern Disaster Theory: Evaluating Disaster Law as a Portfolio of Legal Rules, 25 Emory Int'l L. Rev. 1121 (2011)

Soft Law and the Global Financial System: Rule-Making in the Twenty-First Century, 25 Emory Int'l L. Rev. 1561 (2011) (book review)

Truth and Beauty: A Legal Translation, 41 U. Toledo L. Rev. 261 (2010)

The Story of Wickard v. Filburn: Agriculture, Aggregation, and Commerce, in Constitutional Law Stories 69 (Michael C. Dorf ed., 2d ed., Foundation Press 2009)

Law Among the Ruins, in 2 Law and Recovery from Disaster: Hurricane Katrina 1 (Robin Paul Malloy ed., 2009)

Clarence Thomas, in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law 541 (Roger K. Newman ed., 2009) (coauthored with David R. Stras)

From Red Lion to Red List: The Dominance and Decline of the Broadcast Medium, 60 Admin L. Rev. 793 (2008)

Biolaw: Cracking the Code, 56 Kan. L. Rev. 1029 (2008)

Telecommunications Mergers, in Competition Policy and Merger Analysis in Deregulated and Newly Competitive Industries 52-83 (Peter C. Carstensen & Susan Beth Farmer eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2008)

Beyond Food and Evil, 56 Duke L.J. 1581 (2007)

W.J.B., Vox Populi, 86 Neb. L. Rev. 180 (2007)

The Echoes of Forgotten Footfalls: Telecommunications Mergers at the Dawn of the Digital Millennium, 43 Houston L. Rev. 1311 (2007)

The Most Dangerous Justice Rides into the Sunset, 24 Const. Comment. 199 (2007) (coauthored with Paul H. Edelman)

Across the Apocalypse on Horseback: Biodiversity Loss and the Law, in Biodiversity and the Law: Intellectual Property, Biotechnology and Traditional Knowledge 42 (Charles R. McManis ed., Earthscan/James & James, 2007) [see also Google book search]

Biodiversity and Biotechnology: A Misunderstood Relationship, in Intellectual Property Protection for Agricultural Biotechnology: Seeds of Change 347 (Jay P. Kesan ed., CABI Publishing 2007)

The Death of the Regulatory Compact: Adjusting Prices and Expectations in the Law of Regulated Industries, 67 Ohio St. L.J. 1265 (2006)

Poetic Justice, 28 Cardozo L. Rev. 581 (2006)

There's No Such Thing as Biopiracy . . . And It's a Good Thing Too, 37 McGeorge L. Rev. 1 (2006)

Around the World in Eighty Centiliters, 15 Minn. J. Int'l L. 1 (2006)

Constitutional Curiosities: A Twenty-One Question Scavenger Hunt, 23 Const. Comment. 139 (2006)

With All Deliberate Speed: Brown II and Desegregation's Children, 24 Law & Ineq. 1 (2006)

Entries, The Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Paul Finkelman ed., Routledge, 2006)

Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, 343 U.S. 495 (1952)
Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, 395 U.S. 367 (1969)
Turner Broadcasting Sys., Inc. v. FCC, 512 U.S. 622 (1994), 520 U.S. 180 (1997)

Conduit-Based Regulation of Speech, 54 Duke L.J. 1359 (2005)

The Parable of the Seeds: Interpreting the Plant Variety Protection Act in Furtherance of Innovation Policy, 81 Notre Dame L. Rev. 105 (2005)

The Midas Touch, 7 Minn. J.L. Sci. & Tech., at i (2005)

Legal Mythmaking in a Time of Mass Extinctions: Reconciling Stories of Origin with Human Destiny, 29 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 279 (2005)

Mastering Eliot's Paradox: Fostering Cultural Memory in an Age of Illusion and Allusion, 89 Minn. L. Rev. 1361 (2005)

Biodiversity and Biotechnology: A Misunderstood Relation, 2005 Mich. St. L. Rev. 51

Across the Apocalypse on Horseback: Imperfect Legal Responses to Biodiversity Loss, 17 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y 12 (2005)

The Nature of the Public Utility: Infrastructure, the Market, and the Law, 98 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1617 (2004)

Mayteenth, 89 Minn. L. Rev. 203 (2004)

A Vision Softly Creeping: Congressional Acquiescence and the Dormant Commerce Clause, 88 Minn. L. Rev. 1764 (2004)

Webs of Life: Biodiversity Conservation as a Species of Information Policy, 89 Iowa L. Rev. 495 (2004)

Portraits of the Scholar as a Young Clerk, 13 Minn. J. Global Trade 203 (2004) (tribute to Robert E. Hudec)

Brilliance Remembered, 20 Const. Comment. 717 (2003-04) (tribute to Daniel A. Farber)

Filburn's Legacy, 52 Emory L.J. 1719 (2003)

The Story of Wickard v. Filburn: Agriculture, Aggregation, and Congressional Power over Commerce, in Constitutional Law Stories 69 (Michael C. Dorf ed., Foundation Press 2003)

The Agricultural Adjustment Act, in Major Acts of Congress 5 (Brian K. Landsberg ed., Macmillan Reference 2003)

True Blue, 20 Const. Comment. 5 (2003) (pseudonymous work)

Subsidized Rural Telephony and the Public Interest: A Case Study in Cooperative Federalism and Its Pitfalls, 2 J. on Telecomms. & High Tech. L. 307 (2003)

The Vertical Dimension of Cooperative Competition Policy, 48 Antitrust Bull. 1005 (2003)

The Pragmatic Ecologist: Environmental Protection as a Jurisdynamic Experience, 87 Minn. L. Rev. 847 (2003)

The Price of Macroeconomic Imprecision: How Should the Law Measure Inflation?, 54 Hastings L.J. 1375 (2003)

The Phages of American Law, 36 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 455 (2003) (pseudonymous work)

Judicial Epochs in Supreme Court History: Sifting Through the Fossil Record for Stitches in Time and Switches in Nine, 47 St. Louis U. L.J. 677 (2003)

Come Back to the Nickel and Five: Tracing the Warren Court's Pursuit of Equal Justice Under Law, 59 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1203 (2002)

Dynamic Statutory Drafting: Calculating the Price of Statutory Imprecision, Berkeley Electronic Press: Issues in Legal Scholarship, vol. 1, no. 3: Dynamic Statutory Interpretation, Article 13, http://www.bepress.com/ils/iss3/art13 (2002)

Liberating Red Lion from the Glass Menagerie of Free Speech Jurisprudence, 1 J. on Telecomms. & High Tech. L. 293 (2002)

Constitutional Law Haiku, 18 Const. Comment. 481 (2001) (pseudonymous work coauthored with Daniel A. Farber)

The Most Dangerous Justice Rides Again: Revisiting the Power Pageant of the Justices, 86 Minn. L. Rev. 131 (2001) (coauthored with Paul H. Edelman)

Diversity and Deadlock: Transcending Conventional Wisdom on the Relationship Between Biological Diversity and Intellectual Property, 31 Envtl. L. Rptr. 10,625 (2001)

The Authority to Regulate Broadband Internet Access over Cable, 16 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 677 (2001)

Pax Mercatoria: Globalization as a Second Chance at "Peace for Our Time," 24 Fordham Int'l L.J. 217 (2001)

Epiphytic Economics and the Politics of Place, 10 Minn. J. Global Trade 1 (2001)

Rational Basis Revue, 17 Const. Comment. 447 (2001)

Standing in the Shadows of Giants: The Role of Intergenerational Equity in Telecommunications Reform, 71 U. Colo. L. Rev. 921 (2000)

Globalization and Its Losers, 9 Minn. J. Global Trade 157 (2000)

The Death of Contra, 52 Stan. L. Rev. 889 (2000) (pseudonymous work)

Mark My Words, 3 Green Bag 2d 121 (2000) (pseudonymous work)

Hope a Better Rate for Me, 17 Yale J. on Reg. 195 (2000)

The Magnificent Seven: American Telephony's Deregulatory Shootout, 50 Hastings L.J. 1503 (1999)

Midnight in the Courtroom of Good and Evil, 16 Const. Comment. 499 (1999)

The Sound of Legal Thunder: The Chaotic Consequences of Crushing Constitutional Butterflies, 16 Const. Comment. 483 (1999)

The Second Coming of Smyth v. Ames, 77 Tex. L. Rev. 1535 (1999)

DeFunis, Defunct, 16 Const. Comment. 91 (1999)

Regulatory Education and Its Reform, 16 Yale J. on Reg. 145 (1998)

Diversity in a Different Dimension: Evolutionary Theory and Affirmative Action's Destiny, 59 Ohio St. L.J. 811 (1998)

The Potable Constitution, 15 Const. Comment. 1 (1998)

TELRIC in Turmoil, Telecommunications in Transition: A Note on the Iowa Utilities Board Litigation, 33 Wake Forest L. Rev. 51 (1998)

Book Review, 97 Pub. Choice 205 (1998) (reviewing Nicholas Mercuro & Steven G. Medema, Economics & the Law: From Posner to Post-Modernism (1997))

Force Majeure in Legal Scholarship, 14 Const. Comment. 427 (1998) (coauthored with David Schultz)

Filburn's Forgotten Footnote — Of Farm Team Federalism and Its Fate, 82 Minn. L. Rev. 249 (1997)

Embryonic Thoughts on Racial Identity as New Property, 68 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1123 (1997)

The Legal Process and Political Economy of Telecommunications Reform, 97 Colum. L. Rev. 835 (1997)

Feudalism Unmodified: Discourses on Farms and Firms, 45 Drake L. Rev. 361 (1997) (with Edward S. Adams)

Le statut légal des appellations d'origine contrôlées aux États-Unis d'Amérique, 249 Revue de Droit Rural 35 (1997)

Fugitives and Agrarians in a World Without Frontiers, 18 Cardozo L. Rev. 1031 (1996)

Untenured but Unrepentant, 81 Iowa L. Rev. 1609 (1996)

"Duel" Diligence: Second Thoughts About the Supremes as Sultans of Swing, 70 S. Cal. L. Rev. 219 (1996) (with Paul H. Edelman)

The Most Dangerous Justice: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Mathematics, 70 S. Cal. L. Rev. 63 (1996) (with Paul H. Edelman)

Diversity and Damnation, 43 UCLA L. Rev. 1839 (1996)

Titanic Telecommunications, 25 Sw. U. L. Rev. 535 (1996)

The Last Picture Show (On the Twilight of Federal Mass Communications Regulation), 80 Minn. L. Rev. 1415 (1996)

A Sober Second Look at Appellations of Origin: How the United States Will Crash France's Wine and Cheese Party, 5 Minn. J. Global Trade 29 (1996)

Get Green or Get Out: Decoupling Environmental from Economic Objectives in Agricultural Regulation, 48 Okla. L. Rev. 333 (1995)

The Agroecological Opium of the Masses, 10:4 Choices 16 (Winter 1995)

Rock 'n' Roll Law School, 12 Const. Comment. 315 (1995)

Law as a Species of Language Acquisition, 73 Wash. U.L.Q. 1263 (1995)

Of Agriculture's First Disobedience and Its Fruit, 48 Vand. L. Rev. 1261 (1995)

Law as Industrial Policy: Economic Analysis of Law in a New Key, 25 U. Memphis L. Rev. 1315 (1995) (with Daniel J. Gifford)

The American Ideology, 48 Vand. L. Rev. 908 (1995), reprinted in Les Actes du Troisième Congrès de l'Union Mondiale des Agraristes Universitaires 509-69 (1996)

Book Review, 11 Const. Comment. 599 (1994-95) (reviewing H. Jefferson Powell, The Moral Tradition of American Constitutionalism: A Theological Interpretation (1993))

Unloving, 80 Iowa L. Rev. 145 (1994)

The Constitutional Law Songbook, 11 Const. Comment. 263 (1994)

The Mystery and the Mastery of the Judicial Power, 59 Mo. L. Rev. 281 (1994)

Appointments with Disaster: The Unconstitutionality of Binational Arbitral Review Under the United States-Canada Free Trade Agreement, 49 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1455 (1992)

Application of the Abnormally Dangerous Activities Doctrine to Environmental Cleanups, 47 Bus. Law. 1031 (1992) (with Kyle E. McSlarrow)

Code, Custom, and Contract: The Uniform Commercial Code as Law Merchant, 27 Tex. Int'l L.J. 91 (1992)

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, 58 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1527 (1991) (reviewing The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (15th ed. 1991))

The Supreme Court — 1989 Term: Leading Cases, 104 Harv. L. Rev. 129, 319-29 (1990) (analyzing Atlantic Richfield Co. v. USA Petroleum Co., 495 U.S. 328 (1990))

Note, Preemption and Regulatory Efficiency in Federal Energy Statutes, 103 Harv. L. Rev. 1306 (1990)