Jim Chen

Who is Jim Chen?

Jim Chen is a Professor at Michigan State University College of Law, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Regulatory State, and upper-level electives such as Agriculture Law. Chen was formerly a Professor at and Dean of the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law. Chen served as Dean of the U of L Law School for five years, from 2007-2012. Before arriving at U of L, Chen was a professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School. 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.

While at Minnesota, Chen was active in the school's law journals as an editor of the Constitutional Commentary and the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, as well as an advisor for Theatre of the Relatively Talentless during its first four years. Chen writes on the interrelatedness of mathematics, complexity theory, linguistics, and behavior psychology at Jurisdynamics as well as manages Law Blog Central, a sister site to Jurisdynamics that also previews other law professor blogs. He became the new Dean of University of Louisville Brandeis Law School in January 2007.