Curriculum Vitae
Employment:
2005 to present
John M. Duff Professor of Law, Yale University (course areas include contracts, international business transactions, law and development, globalization, and ethnic conflict)
2001 to 2005
Professor of Law, Yale University
Fall 2000
Visiting Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Spring 2000
Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford University
Fall 1999
Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia University
1999-2001
Professor of Law, Duke University
1994-1999
Associate Professor of Law, Duke University
1988-93
Associate, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
New York City (worked on privatization of Teléfonos de México and numerous international transactions throughout Asia, Europe,
and Latin America)
1987-88
Law Clerk to Chief Judge Patricia M. Wald
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Washington, DC
Education:
Harvard Law School, J.D. 1987
Cum Laude
Executive Editor, Harvard Law Review
Harvard College, A.B. 1984
Magna Cum Laude, Economics
Phi Beta Kappa
John Harvard Scholar
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Scholar
El Cerrito High School, 1980
Graduated first in class of 384
National Merit Scholar
Books:
DAY OF EMPIRE: HOW HYPERPOWERS RISE TO GLOBAL DOMINANCE--AND WHY THEY FALL (Doubleday, 2007)
WORLD ON FIRE: HOW EXPORTING FREE MARKET DEMOCRACY BREEDS ETHNIC HATRED AND GLOBAL INSTABILITY (Doubleday, 2003) (made the New York Times and Business Week bestseller lists; selected by both The Economist and The Guardian as one of the Best Books of 2003; featured on C-Span’s Booknotes and PBS’s The Jim Lehrer News Hour; translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Italian, Finnish, and Spanish)
Major Articles:
A World on the Edge, THE WILSON QUARTERLY (Autumn 2002)
The Paradox of Free Market Democracy: Rethinking Development Policy, 41 HARV. INT’L L. J. 287 (2000)
Markets, Democracy, and Ethnicity: Toward A New Paradigm For Law and Development, 108 YALE L.J. 1 (1998) – translated into Spanish, by Instituto Nacional Indigenista, Mexico City
The Privatization-Nationalization Cycle: The Link Between Markets and Ethnicity in Developing Countries, 95 COLUM. L. REV. 223 (1995) – excerpted in RUMU SAKAR, DEVELOPMENT LAW AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCE (1999)
Chapters in Books:
“Asian Immigration: Becoming American,” in David Halberstam, ed., DEFINING A NATION: THE REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT SHAPED THE AMERICAN CHARACTER (National Geographic Tehabi Books, forthcoming, October 2003)
“Markets, Democracy, and Ethnicity,” in Sunder Ramaswamy and Jeff Cason eds., DEVELOPMENT AND DEMOCRACY (University Press of New England, 2002)
“Markets, Democracy, and Ethnicity,” in Arthur Rosett, Lucie Cheng, and Margaret Woo eds., EAST ASIAN LAW: UNIVERSAL NORMS AND LOCAL CULTURES (RoutledgeCurzon, 2002)
Other Publications:
Making the World Safe for Markets, HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW (August 2003)
Power and Prejudice: Globalizing Hate, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL (June 2003)
Depoliticizing Ethnicity, 48 AM. J. COMP. L. 181 (Winter 2000) (reviewing Michael E. Brown & Sumit Ganguly eds., GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND ETHNIC RELATIONS IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC ( 1997))
Global Capitalism and Nationalist Backlash: The Link Between Markets and Ethnicity, 9 TRANS. L. & CONTEMP. PROBS. (1999)
The Constitutionality of the INS Sham Marriage Investigation Policy, 99 HARV.L. REV. 1238 (1986) (student note)
Professional:
Member, New York State Bar, since 1990
Prizes and Fellowships:
Distinguished Teaching Award, Yale Law School (2002-3)
International Affairs Fellowship, Council on Foreign Relations (1998-99)
Representative Lectures & Addresses:
“Globalization and Ethnic Conflict,” address to the United Nations Development Program and the Ford Foundation, New York City, November 2003
“Rubies and Rice Paddies: How Globalization and Free Markets Breed Ethnic Hatred in Asia,” lecture to Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, England, November, 2003
“Markets, Democracy, and Ethnic Conflict”: keynote lecture given to The Contemporary World Project, Mt. Holyoke University, April, 2003
“Globalization and Ethnic Conflict”: Sobota Memorial Lecture delivered at Albany Law School, Albany, New York, April, 2003
“World on Fire: Linkages to Terror”: lecture given to Strategic Assessments Group and the Office of Counter-Terrorism, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC, March, 2003
“Globalization and Ethnic Hatred”: lecture delivered to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, February, 2003
“Globalization and Ethnic Hatred”: lecture given to Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, Chicago, Illinois, January, 2003
“Market-Dominant Minorities and Free Market Democracy”: talk presented to The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, January, 2003
“World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global instability”: keynote address given at the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Northeast Regional Conference, Philadelphia, April 2002
“Race, Values, and Democracy”: panel commentary given at conference on Race, Values, and the American Legal Process in honor of The Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Yale Law School, February 2002
“The Paradox of Free Market Democracy”: presentation to Stanford Law School faculty, April 2000
“The Paradox of Free Market Democracy”: presentation given at symposium on International Law and the Developing World: A Millennial Analysis, Harvard Law School, March 2000
“Markets, Democracy, and Ethnic Conflict in Southeast Asia”: presentation given at conference on China’s Backyard: Beijing’s Strategic Intentions in Southeast Asia, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC, December 1999
“The Paradox of Free Market Democracy:” paper presented at Columbia University, November 1999
“The Paradox of Free Market Democracy:” paper presented at the University of Chicago International Law Workshop, November 1999
“Indonesia: The Paradox of Free Market Democracy?”: presentation given at Council on Foreign Relations, New York City, October 1999
“Financial Crisis and the Implementation of Human Rights”: presentation given at The Hague Joint Conference on Contemporary Issues in International Law: A Century After The First Hague Peace Conference, The Hague, Netherlands, May 1999
“Challenges in Achieving Development and Democracy”: presentation given at The First International Studies Conference: New Perspectives on an Old Debate, Middlebury College, Vermont, May 1999
“Human Rights and Legal Scholarship: New Directions”: presentation given at Symposium on Law School-Based Human Rights Centers and Clinics: Sharing Our History and Planning Our Future, sponsored by Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School, April 1999
“Markets, Democracy, and Ethnic Conflict”: lecture given at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, DC, March 1999
“Markets, Democracy, and Ethnic Conflict in East and Southeast Asia–A Comparative Perspective”: presentation given at the Asian Law and Policy Studies Workshop, Georgetown University Law Center, February 1999
“Markets, Democracy, and Ethnicity”: presentation given at The Conference on Law and Economic Development in Asia, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, December 1998
“Political Corruption and Ethnic Conflict in Third World Democracies”: presentation given at conference on Political Corruption in Market Economies, sponsored by the Soros Foundation Open Society Institute and the University of Connecticut Law School, November 1998
“Markets, Democracy, and Ethnicity”: presentation given at the Olin Law and Economics Workshop, Toronto Law School, September 1998
“Democracy, Kleptocracy, and Pigmentocracy”: lecture given at University of Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1998
“Marketization, Democratization, and Ethnic Conflict”: presentation given at the Michigan Law School Law and Economics Workshop, April 1998
“Markets, Democracy, and Ethnicity: A New Paradigm for Law and Development”: presentation given at the AALS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 1998
“The Foreigner Within”: panel presentation given at the Critical Race Theory Conference, Yale Law School, November 1997
“The Problem of Market-Dominant Minorities: A Comparative Perspective for South Africa”: presentation to the University of Capetown Law School faculty, Capetown, South Africa, September 1997
“The Problem of Market-Dominant Minorities: A Comparative Perspective for South Africa”: presentation to the Rand Afrikaans University faculty of law, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 1997
“Global Capitalism and Nationalist Backlash: The Link Between Markets and Ethnicity”: presentation delivered at workshop on The Relocation of Languages and Cultures, Duke University, May 1997
“Foreign Investment Cycles in Emerging Economies”: paper delivered atthe Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, DC, April 1997
“International Contracts and Commercial Transactions”: series of lectures delivered at Escuela Libre de Derecho, Mexico City, March 1997
Consultations:
“Indonesia and the Problems Facing Neoliberal Reform”: consultation for the Ford Foundation and Council on Foreign Relations, Spring 2000
“Review of draft Law on Foreign Investment Activities in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia”: consultation for the American Bar Association, Section of International Law and Practice, Central and East European Law Initiative, October 1996
“Review of draft Law on Foreign Investment for the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina”: consultation for the American Bar Association, Section of International Law and Practice, Central and East European Law Initiative, May 1995
Languages:
Native Hokkien (Fujianese) Chinese. Proficient Mandarin Chinese. Reading ability in French and Spanish. Some German.
