{{Short description|American legal scholar}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Jim Chen | image = | caption = | order = 23rd | title = Dean of the University of Louisville School of Law | term_start = 2007 | term_end = 2012 | predecessor = Laura Rothstein | successor = Susan Duncan (interim) | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | profession = Academic administrator | website = | education = Emory University (BA, MA)<br>Harvard University (JD) }} '''Jim Chen''' is an American legal scholar known for his expertise in constitutional law. He holds the Justin Smith Morrill Chair in Law <ref name=":0">{{cite web | title=MSU Law Welcomes James Chen as the Justin Smith Morrill Chair in Law: Michigan State University College of Law | website=Michigan State University College of Law | date=2012-12-21 | url=https://www.law.msu.edu/news/2012/chen.html}}</ref> at Michigan State University College of Law. From 2007 to 2012, he served as the dean of the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law.
==Education==
Chen received his B.A. and M.A. from Emory University in 1987.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|title=Rosenblatt's Deans Database: Jim Chen|url=http://law.mc.edu/alumni/cle|website=Mississippi College School of Law}}</ref> Following his studies at the University of Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar, he earned his J.D., ''magna cum laude'', from Harvard Law School, where he was executive editor of the ''Harvard Law Review''.
Chen is fluent in Taiwanese and French, among other languages.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}
== Career == After law school, Chen clerked for federal judge Michael Luttig on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Chen was a professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School from 1993 to 2007.<ref name=":0" /> While at Minnesota he taught in the areas of administrative law, agricultural law, constitutional law, economic regulation, environmental law, industrial policy, legislation and statutory interpretation, and natural resources law. Chen was active in Minnesota's law journals as an editor of the [http://www.law.umn.edu/constcom/index.html Constitutional Commentary] and of the ''Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology'', as well being as an advisor for the Theatre of the Relatively Talentless during its first four years.
In late 2006, Chen was named as the new dean of the Brandeis School of Law.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chen named dean of Brandeis School of Law|url=http://php.louisville.edu/news/news.php?news=765|date=December 2006|website=University of Louisville: News|access-date=2020-05-07|archive-date=2019-04-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403023636/http://php.louisville.edu/news/news.php?news=765|url-status=dead}}</ref> He served in that position until 2012<ref name=":1" /> when he was appointed as Professor at Michigan State.<ref>{{cite web|title=James M. Chen: Faculty Profile|url=https://www.law.msu.edu/faculty_staff/profile.php?prof=880|website=Michigan State University College of Law|ref={{sfnref | Michigan State University College of Law}}}}</ref> Along with Frank H. Wu at Wayne State University Law School, Harold Hongju Koh at Yale Law School, and Wallace Loh at the University of Washington School of Law, Chen is one of four Asian Americans who have held the post of dean at an American law school.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}
Chen is an elected member of the American Law Institute<ref>{{Cite web|title=Members Directory|url=https://www.ali.org/members/directory/|website=American Law Institute|language=en|access-date=2020-05-07|archive-date=2018-07-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707143611/https://www.ali.org/members/directory/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and has served since 2010 as a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|title=James Ming Chen|url=https://www.acus.gov/contacts/james-ming-chen|website=Administrative Conference of the United States|access-date=2020-05-07|archive-date=2022-04-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406223856/https://www.acus.gov/contacts/james-ming-chen|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Scholarship and teaching == Chen teaches constitutional law, regulatory state, and upper-level electives such as agriculture law. He has taught law around the world, including at Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Germany, the University of Nantes in Nantes, France, and at Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovakia. He writes on the inter-relatedness of mathematics, complexity theory, linguistics, and behavior psychology at [https://jurisdynamics.blogspot.com/ Jurisdynamics] and manages [http://lawblogcentral.blogspot.com Law Blog Central], a sister site to ''Jurisdynamics'' that also previews other law professor blogs.
== Selected works ==
=== Articles ===
*{{Cite journal|last=Chen|first=James Ming|author-mask=1|date=2006|title=Filburn's Legacy|journal=Emory Law Journal|language=en|volume=52|pages=1719|ssrn=901026}} *{{Cite journal|last=Chen|first=James Ming|author-mask=1|date=2006|title=There's No Such Thing as Biopiracy...And it's a Good Thing Too|journal=McGeorge Law Review|language=en|volume=37|ssrn=781824}} * {{Cite journal|last=Chen|first=James Ming|author-mask=1|date=2006|title=Constitutional Curiosities: a Twenty-One Question Scavenger Hunt|journal=Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-45|language=en|ssrn=929012}} * {{Cite journal|last=Chen|first=James Ming|author-mask=1|date=2014|title=Measuring Market Risk Under the Basel Accords: VaR, Stressed VaR, and Expected Shortfall|journal=Aestimatio, the IEB International Journal of Finance|language=en|volume=8|pages=184–201|ssrn=2252463}} *{{Cite journal|last1=Katz|first1=Daniel Martin|last2=Bommarito|first2=Michael James|last3=Soellinger|first3=Tyler|last4=Chen|first4=James Ming|date=2017|title=Law on the Market? Abnormal Stock Returns and Supreme Court Decision-Making|journal=SSRN|language=en|ssrn=2649726}}
=== Books and book chapters ===
* {{Cite book|last=Chen|first=James Ming|date=2008-09-15|title=The Story of Wickard v. Filburn: Agriculture, Aggregation, and Commerce|journal=Constitutional Law Stories|language=en|ssrn=1268162|publisher=Foundation Press|isbn=978-1599411699|editor-last=Dorf|editor-first=Michael C.|edition=2nd}} *{{Cite book|last1=Farber|first1=Daniel A|title=Disaster law and policy|last2=Chen|first2=Jim|last3=Verchick|first3=Robert R. M|last4=Sun|first4=Lisa Grow|publisher=Wolters Kluwer|year=2015|isbn=978-1-4548-6925-2|edition=3rd|location=New York|language=en|oclc=921253487}}
== See also == * List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 10)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=68651 Professor Chen's published articles on various legal topics] *[https://jurisdynamics.blogspot.com/ Professor Chen's Blog, Jurisdynamics]
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