Ju-Ching Huang
Country
Taiwan
Education
LL.M., Stanford Law School (Environmental Law and Policy), 2015; LL.B., National Taiwan University, 2011
Faculty Advisor
J. Peter Byrne
Areas of Study
Climate Change Governance; International Environmental Law; Legal Geography; Administrative Law
Ju-Ching’s research explores the nexus between climate change governance and land use legal regimes; in particular, she examines land use conflicts and controversies that arise from climate change. Through the lens of legal geography and administrative law, Ju-Ching argues that the existing legal regime must adapt to better accommodate the fast-changing nature of land use. Ju-Ching grew up on the island of Taiwan, and her love for the land, coast, and ocean are the driving force behind her research and career path.
She has worked in both public and private practices and in local and central governments. Following law school, Ju-Ching worked at a boutique law firm specializing in land use disputes and property law. After earning her LL.M., she worked as a city planner and legal counsel at the Taipei Urban Regeneration Center, a government-led organization for urban redevelopment. In 2016, she became a policy staffer of the Minister of the Interior in Taiwan, working on a wide array of issues from immigration and land use to disaster management. At the Ministry, she led a cross-agencies team to design innovative land-use hearings for various land-use decisions at the national level, including urban planning, coastal management, wetland preservation, and other decisions.
Ju-Ching enjoys working at the interface of law, policy, and science and collaborating with interdisciplinary professionals. Aside from her dissertation research, she is currently the legal and policy fellow of Maryland Sea Grant and the Agriculture Law Education Initiative, working closely with scientists in coastal resilience and aquaculture. Her current collaboration is with environmental social scientists to study Floodplain management in the United States: where, why, and how policies have shaped floodplain development? Ju-Ching is also a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature World Commission on Environmental Law Early Career Specialist Group (IUCN WCEL ECSG), working specifically on the project Science-policy interfaces in the context of environmental rule of law. She also serves as a Managing Editor of Georgetown Environmental Law Review.
Ju-Ching has published articles and blog posts in Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Georgetown Environmental Law Review, Stanford Law School Blogs, and Georgetown Environmental Law Review Online. Her recent research on climate change governance and informal settlements has been presented at the Georgetown Environmental Law Review Symposium and Cambridge International Law Conference. She previously worked at the Georgetown Climate Center on two climate change adaptation toolkits: Managed Retreat Toolkit and Equitable Adaptation Legal and Policy Toolkit.