Lan Cao

Professor, Betty Hutton Williams Professor of International Economic Law

Dale E. Fowler School of Law

Expertise: International Business; International Trade; Corporate Law; Economic Development; Rule of Law

Office Location: Kennedy Hall 413

Phone: (714) 628-2659

Email: lcao@chapman.edu

Scholarly Works:: SSRN Author Page

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 and Garrison in New York City. Professor Cao was a Ford Foundation Scholar in 1991. She has published scholarly articles in the area of international trade and finance, international economic development, finance and culture in law. She is also the author and co-author of several books and supplements, including the novel Monkey Bridge (Penguin 1997), about the Vietnamese War and its impact on a young Vietnamese American girl.

Professor Cao holds the Betty Hutton Williams Endowed Professorship in International Law

Courses Taught: Corporations, International Business Transactions and International Trade Law.

List of Scholarly Publications

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Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications: War and Migration, (Viking Penguin) (forthcoming 2021); Swiss Cheese Sovereignty: Charter Cities, 27 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 717 (Symposium 2019); 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/; A Trade War the U.S. Is Actually Winning, For Now, Op Ed, New York Times, Apr. 26, 2018; Vietnam Wasn’t Just an American War, Op Ed, New York Times, March 22, 2018; Pride and Prejudice in U.S. Trade, 7 NOTRE DAME J. INT’L & COMP. L 1 (2017).; Five Myths About the Vietnam War, Op Ed, Washington Post, Sept. 29, 2017; 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); Currency Wars and the Erosion of Dollar Hegemony, 38 MICH. J. INT’L L 57 (2016).

Lan Cao

Biography

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications

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