Peter H. Huang
Harold E. Kohn Professor of Law



Peter H. Huang is the inaugural Harold E. Kohn Chair Professor of Law at Temple University's James Beasley Law School. He was a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study during its psychology and economics theme academic year 2005-06. His major academic interests include securities and financial regulation, in addition to economics and psychology of rational decision-making and subjective well-being. A selected list of his forthcoming and existing publications can be found on his publications page.

He previously taught at the University of Minnesota Law School (where he was a tenured faculty member), Yale Law School, the University of Chicago Law School, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the University of Virginia Law School, and the University of Southern California Law School. He has also taught in the economic departments of Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles, in addition to the finance department of Tulane University's business school. Before teaching, he served as a staff economist in the Division of Consumer Protection of the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C.

Education
J.D., Stanford University Law School
Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics), Harvard University
S.M. (Applied Mathematics), Harvard University
A.B., Princeton University

Teaching Areas
Business Basics; Corporate Finance; Derivative Securities and Their Regulation; Securities Litigation and Enforcement; Securities Regulation; Law & Popular Culture; Law, Happiness, & Subjective Well-Being, Law, Emotions, & Neuroscience

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