Before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1999, Chang was a Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Law School. He has also taught as a visiting professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School, the New York University School of Law, the University of Michigan Law School, and the University of Chicago Law School.

 

Chang served as a law clerk for the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1988-1989. He received his JD from Harvard Law School, where he served as the supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. He received his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University, and his AB in Government from Harvard College.

 

Chang teaches and writes on a wide variety of subjects, including immigration law, international trade regulation and environmental law. His work includes a book, Law and Economics of Immigration, as well as publications in Yale Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Southern California Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review and RAND Journal of Economics.

 

From 2010-2015, Deeg served as chair of the department of political science at Temple. His responsibilities as dean include faculty affairs, research promotion and strategic budget management. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including Fulbright and Jacob K. Javits Fellowships, and is a co-winner of the 2003 Outstanding Teaching Award presented by the American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha.

 

His research focuses on German and European political economy, with a particular focus on the causes and mechanisms of change in financial market regulation and governance, including the politics of forming a banking union in the European Union.

 

He has published several works, including Finance Capitalism Unveiled: Banks and the German Political Economy and numerous articles in political science, business and sociology journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Economy & Society, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of International Business Studies, Small Business Economics, Socio-Economic Review and World Politics. He serves on the board of several scholarly journals, including International Studies Quarterly and Socio-Economic Review.

 

Deeg received a BA from Macalester College and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a postdoctoral fellow and visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany, as well as the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin.

 

Doh researches the intersection of international business, strategic management, and corporate responsibility and sustainability. He has published more than 85 refereed articles, 11 books, more than two dozen case studies, and presented more than 100 papers at refereed conferences. His publications have appeared in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal, among others. His most recent books are Aligning for Advantage: Competitive Strategies for the Political and Social Arenas, and International Management: Culture, Strategy and Behavior, the best-selling international management text now in its tenth edition.

 

Doh has extensive editorial experience, having served as editor-in-chief of Journal of World Business and currently senior associate editor of Journal of Management Studies. Prior to his career in academe, he was a trade policy official with the U.S. government and an external consultant to Deloitte. He holds a PhD in strategic and international management from George Washington University.

 

Downey’s research focuses on auditor judgment and decision making, with a particular emphasis on arrangements in which auditors are geographically dispersed. She is an expert on multilocation audits and offshoring and has examined pertinent challenges encountered by auditors domestically and internationally on such engagements.

 

Most recently, she served as a senior economic research fellow in the Office of Economic and Risk Analysis at the PCAOB from August 2017-August 2018. Her professional experience includes several years with PwC working in the firm's assurance practice. She earned a BS and MS in Accounting from Villanova University and a PhD from Bentley University.

 

Kersting is a native of Germany and holds a diploma in economics from the Christan-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, Germany. Subsequently he received his PhD in economics from Texas A&M University. His research is in the fields of development and international economics, as well as macroeconomics.

 

 

 

Mansfield’s research focuses on international security and international political economy. As the recipient of the 2000 Karl W. Deutsch Award in International Relations and Peace Research, he has been a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution and his research has been supported by grants from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Mershon Center, and the United States Institute of Peace.

 

He is the author of Power, Trade, and War, Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War (with Jack Snyder), Votes, Vetoes, and the Political Economy of International Trade Agreements (with Helen V. Milner), and The Political Economy of International Trade. He is also the editor of 14 books and journal special issues, and has published articles in the American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution and World Politics.

 

He is co-editor of the University of Michigan Press Series on International Political Economy and Vice President of the International Studies Association. He has been a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Graduate Record Examination Political Science Committee, associate editor of International Organization, and program co-chair for the 2001 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.

 

Mansfield received his BA, MA, and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and before joining the faculty there, he taught at Columbia University and Ohio State University.

Assistant Professor, Political Science, Villanova University

 

Seligsohn teaches comparative politics and international relations at Villanova. Her research focuses on aspects of environmental governance in China, India, and US-China relations and how to achieve better environmental outcomes by examining root causes. She is currently studying the connection between corporate concentration and the Chinese government's ability to regulate air pollution. She has published on Chinese environmental and climate policy, environmental transparency and US-China trade politics.

 

Prior to embarking on an academic career, she had a career in policy; first with the U.S. State Department during which she served multiple tours in China, India, New Zealand and Nepal, and then with the World Resources Institute.

 

Seligsohn holds a PhD from the University of California San Diego in Political Science, a Master of Public Policy from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School where she also earned a certificate in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy, and a BA from Harvard University in East Asian Studies.