Jan Ting, Professor of Law, joined the Temple law faculty in 1977, and served as Director of the Graduate Tax Program from 1994 to 2001. He is a 1970 graduate of Oberlin College, received an M.A. degree in Asian Studies from the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii in 1972, and received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1975. He specialized in tax law as an attorney at the Philadelphia law firm of Pepper Hamilton & Scheetz from 1975 to 1977. He was appointed Assistant Commissioner at the Immigration & Naturalization Service of the U.S. Department of Justice in 1990, and served there until 1993. He teaches courses on national security, taxation, and immigration law, and has published articles in those areas. His summer 2002 article on "Federal Initiatives in Response to the September 11 Terrorist Attacks" appears at 34 Connecticut Law Review 1145. His fall 2003 article on "Immigration Law Reform After 9/11" appears at 17 Temple International & Comparative Law Journal 503. His winter 2006 article on "Immigration and National Security" appears at 50 Orbis 41. He has been quoted in news reports on legal developments, and has published commentary, in various media including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, National Public Radio, PBS Newshour, ABC Nightline, and the NBC Today Show, Dateline, and Evening News programs. The National Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (NAPALSA) named Professor Ting as the "2003 Asian American Law Professor of the Year" at their 2003 national convention in Honolulu, Hawaii. Professor Ting is a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the Center for Immigration Studies, and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He was the Delaware Republican Party candidate for U.S. Senate in 2006. He can be contacted at this e-mail address: janting@hotmail.com

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