Jim Chen

Jim Chen
Jim Chen
23rd Dean of the University of Louisville School of Law
	In office; 2007–2012
Preceded by	Laura Rothstein
Succeeded by	Susan Duncan (interim)
Personal details
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Profession	Academic administrator

Jim Chen is an American

Brandeis School of Law

.

Education

Chen received his B.A. and M.A. from Emory University in 1987.^[2] 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]}

Career

After law school, Chen

U.S. Supreme Court

.

Chen was a professor of law at the

law journals as an editor of the 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.[3] He served in that position until 2012^[2] when he was appointed as Professor at Michigan State.^[4] 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]}

Chen is an elected member of the American Law Institute^[5] and has served since 2010 as a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.^[6]

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

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 Jurisdynamics and manages Law Blog Central

, a sister site to Jurisdynamics that also previews other law professor blogs.