Eric Chang

Focus Area: International Disputes

Eric Chang is an attorney focusing on international disputes, including international investment law. Eric qualified and has practiced in both civil law and common law systems and jurisdictions. He is a former French Avocat à la cour at the Paris Bar, and a member of the New York and California Bars. He has practiced in Paris, Dubai, and New York on cross-border matters involving parties and disputes in EMEA, North America, Latin America, and Asia. His experience covers a wide range of industries and issues, including construction, mining, oil and energy, infrastructure, state concessions, and public-private partnerships (PPP). After a number of years with large international law firms, Eric founded an international disputes practice, CHANG LAW, focusing on high end, high-value international commercial arbitration and investor-State arbitration.

In addition to his international disputes practice, Eric is an Officer in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, Reserve Component. In this role, Eric has served on three active-duty mobilizations, including, most recently, a combat deployment to the Middle East with Combined Special Operations Joint Task Force – Levant, a special operations task force whose primary mission is securing the enduring defeat of ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Eric served as Chief, Contract/Fiscal and Operational Law; his duties included advice on rules of engagement, the laws of armed conflict, and civil-military engagements. He currently serves as a National Security Law Attorney at the Office of The Judge Advocate General, National Security Law Division, at the Pentagon.

Beyond military service, Eric's commitment to public service focuses on mentorship, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. He currently serves on one of fourteen Army-wide JAG Corps DEI Field Boards, and co-chairs the California Arbitration (Cal Arb) Membership and DEI Committee. In those roles, Eric works to improve access, retention, and mobility up the ranks of two highly coveted, elite legal career paths. From 2018 to 2020, Eric served as the Co-Coordinator of Young ICCA's Mentoring Programme, universally recognized as the premier mentorship program in the field of international arbitration, connecting law students and young practitioners from all over the world to leading senior practitioners. Eric himself has benefited from mentorship throughout his legal career, including through the JAG Corps Asian-Pacific American Network (APAN), a non-federal entity promoting mentorship within the JAG Corps.

Education

• Juris Doctor, Cornell University Law School
• Maîtrise en droit, Université de Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne
• Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, University of California at Berkeley
• Bachelor of Arts, French, University of California at Berkeley