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Janie Chuang Professor WCL Faculty

Degrees
B.A., Yale University 1995
J.D., Harvard Law School 1998

Bio

Janie Chuang is a Professor of Law who teaches and writes in the areas of international law, human trafficking and labor migration.  Professor Chuang’s articles have appeared in the American Journal of International Law, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the North Carolina Law Review, and have been cited in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Guardian, among others.  Drawing on her expertise on human trafficking issues, Professor Chuang has served as an adviser to the United Nations, the International Labor Organization, and the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe.  Professor Chuang has also served in leadership positions with the American Society of International Law and the International Law Association.  Professor Chuang was a 2011-2012 Open Society Foundations Fellow.  Prior to joining Â鶹ÊÓƵWCL, Chuang practiced with the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, representing foreign governments in international litigation/arbitration and pro bono clients in asylum and human rights cases. 



Professor Chuang currently serves as member of the Freedom Network USA, and as a member of the Modern-Day Slavery and Trafficking Working Group for the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.

See Also
Areas of Specialization
Gender and the Law
International Commercial Arbitration
International Human Rights/Humanitarian Law
International/Comparative Law
Employment Discrimination Law
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