
Lan Cao
- Education:
- Mount Holyoke College, Bachelor of Arts
Yale University, Juris Doctor
Biography
Professor Cao is the Betty Hutton Williams Professor of International Economic Law. She joined the Fowler School of Law in 2013 after serving for more than a decade on the faculty at William & Mary Law School, where she was the Boyd Fellow and Professor of Law. She clerked for Judge Constance Baker Motley of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She practiced with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton
Professor Cao holds the Betty Hutton Williams Endowed Professorship in International Law and is the Director of the International Law Program.
Courses Taught:
Contracts I, Contracts II, and Corporations.
Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
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Ethnic Economies, Cultural Resources, and the African American Question, 91 U. Cin. L. Rev. 303 (2022)
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Weaponizing Culture to Undermine International Women's Rights, 73 Hastings L.J. 233 (2022).
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Family in Six Tones (Viking Penguin 2020)
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Made in America: Race, Trade, and Prison Labor, 42 N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change 1 (2019)
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Made in America: Race, Trade, and Prison Labor, 43 N.Y.U. Rev. Law & Social Change 1 (2020). Reviewed in Jotwell https://crim.jotwell.com/prison-labor-through-the-lens-of-international-trade/
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Charter Cities, 17 William & Mary Bill Rts J 717 (Symposium) (2019)
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A Trade War the U.S. Is Actually Winning, For Now, Op Ed, New York Times, Apr. 26, 2018
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Vietnam Wasn’t Just an American War, Op Ed, New York Times, March 22, 2018
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Pride and Prejudice in U.S. Trade, 7 NOTRE DAME J. INT’L & COMP. L 1 (2017).
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Five Myths About the Vietnam War, Op Ed, Washington Post, Sept. 29, 2017
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CULTURE IN LAW AND DEVELOPMENT: NURTURING POSITIVE CHANGE (Oxford University Press May 2016) (500 page monograph) reviewed in Jane E. Stromseth, 112 Am. J. Int'l L. 798-804 (2018) (reviewing Lan Cao, Culture in Law and Development: Nurturing Positive Change (2016)
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Currency Wars and the Erosion of Dollar Hegemony, 38 MICH. J. INT’L L 57 (2016).