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Member Information
Eric A. Feldman, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Law
University of Pennsylvania
Office Phone: 215-573-6400
Office Fax: 215-573-2025
Email: efeldman@law.upenn.edu
Website(s): http://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/eafeldma/
Education: Ph.D. 1994, University of California , Berkeley ; J.D. 1989, University of California , Berkeley ; B.A.1982, Vassar College
Keywords: public health law, comparative law, torts, Japan
Research and/or Clinical Interests:
Eric Feldman's expertise is in Japanese law, comparative public health law, and law and society.
Summary:
Eric Feldman's expertise is in Japanese law, comparative public health law, and law and society. His books and articles bring a sophisticated understanding of rights, dispute resolution, and legal culture to the analysis of urgent policy issues including the regulation of smoking, HIV/AIDS, and other aspects of the health care system. Feldman has twice been a Fulbright Scholar in Japan , and has also been a Visiting Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris , a Visiting Professor at the University of Trento in Italy , and a Visiting Scholar at Waseda University 's Graduate School of Law in Tokyo . He has received grants and fellowships from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Bar Association, the National Science Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, among others. Prior to joining the Penn Law faculty, he spent five years as the Associate Director of the Institute for Law and Society at New York University , a Ph.D. program jointly sponsored by the School of Law and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of The Ritual of Rights in Japan: Law, Society, and Health Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2000), the co-editor of Blood Feuds: AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster (Oxford University Press, 1999) and Unfiltered: Conflicts over Tobacco Policy and Public Health (Harvard University Press, 2004), and has published academic articles in edited volumes and journals including Law in Japan , American Journal of Comparative Law , Los Angeles Times , Social and Legal Studies , Hastings Center Report , the Lancet , the Law and Society Review , and the California Law Review .
Representative Publications:
Unfiltered: Conflicts over Tobacco Policy and Public Health, Eric A. Feldman and Ronald Bayer, eds., Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press, 2004.
The Ritual of Rights in Japan : Law, Society, and Health Policy, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Blood Feuds: AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster, Eric A. Feldman and Ronald Bayer, eds., New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
"The Culture of Legal Change: A Case Study of Tobacco Control in 21st Century Japan ," 27 Michigan Journal of International Law, 2006.
"The Landscape of Japanese Tobacco Policy: Three Perspectives," 49 American Journal of Comparative Law 679-706 2001.
"Blood Justice: Courts, Conflict, and Compensation in Japan , France , and the US ," 34 Law and Society Review 651-702 (2000).
"Testing the Force: HIV, the Military, and Human Rights in Australia ," 13 AIDS and Public Policy Journal 85-90 (1998).
"Rapid Self-Testing for HIV Infection" (M. Merson, E. Feldman , R. Bayer, J. Stryker), 349 The Lancet 352-3 (1997).
"The Limits of Tolerance: Cigarettes, Politics, and Society in Japan ," in Unfiltered: Conflicts over Tobacco Policy and Public Health (Eric A. Feldman and Ronald Bayer, eds., Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press, 2004).
"Litigation and Social Conflict in Japan and the United States : The Case of HIV-Tainted Blood," in Japanese Economy and Society under Pax-Americana (Hiroshi Shibuya et al, eds., Tokyo : University of Tokyo Press , 2002).
