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Nyu shanghai graduate fellowship.

Shanghai Graduate Fellowship remains closed as of April 2023.  Please check this website for any additional updates.

Each semester, 3-4 awards are available for NYU students who have advanced to the dissertation stage to conduct advanced research or writing in residence at NYU Shanghai. Awards are not limited to GSAS students; students from any NYU school or department are welcome to apply. Successful candidates will join an active community of scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, where interdisciplinary study and cross-fertilization is more the rule than the exception, and will be warmly encouraged to participate in weekly faculty seminars. Applications are especially encouraged from students engaged in research projects related to the strengths of the NYU Shanghai faculty, including but not limited to projects primarily focused on China and surrounding regions. Students are encouraged to visit the NYU Shanghai  website  to browse profiles of faculty in their discipline and inquire directly with NYU Shanghai faculty about their interest in being a fellowship mentor.

Each NYU Shanghai Graduate Fellowship award includes a stipend, which will reflect 3.5 months (one semester) of the GSAS minimum monthly stipend for the academic year. In 2020-2021, the minimum monthly stipend is   $3,278, which equates to  $11,473 over one semester. For students still within their MacCracken award term, the waiver of maintenance of matriculation fees, and 100% coverage in the NYU comprehensive health insurance plan for an individual will be covered under the terms of the MacCracken award. For non-MacCracken students as well as students beyond the term of their MacCracken award but still financial aid eligible, a waiver of maintenance of matriculation fees, and 100% coverage in the NYU comprehensive health insurance plan for an individual will also be included in the award. No student is eligible to receive both a Washington Square based fellowship and a Global Dissertation Research and Writing Fellowship in the same year. Work space will be made available on the NYU Shanghai campus.  Download the NYU Shanghai Graduate Fellowship Application

ELIGIBILITY

• If selected, NYU Shanghai Graduate Fellows commit to being in residence at NYU Shanghai for the entirety of their award semester. Short leaves may be permissible for legitimate academic reasons, however, extended time away may result in forfeiture of the fellowship. 
• During the award semester, applicants must be within seven years of their first term of enrollment in the doctoral program or deemed to still be financial aid eligible. Eligibility beyond seven years may be extended on an exception basis, consistent with the Graduate School's normal review of financial aid eligibility. The common reasons for extension are (a) time off for an official leave of absence; (b) up to four semesters of fieldwork, if the field work occurred within the first seven years of enrollment and the student did not receive a GSAS or other institutional stipend for the semester(s); and (c) exceptional academic circumstances that are beyond the student's control (e.g., the academic advisor left; serious illness).
• Applicants must have a minimum grade point average of 3.3 and must have earned 100 percent of credits required for the degree by date of award (courses with I, NR, W, and F grades are not considered successfully completed).
• Fellows should not be projected to defend their dissertation before the conclusion of their award semester.

HOW TO APPLY

Shanghai Graduate Fellowship will remain closed as of November 1st, 2021.

For questions, please contact  [email protected] . Applications will not be reviewed until after the deadline.

NYUAD Dissertation Writing Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Program overview.

The Dissertation Writing Fellowship is offered to enable graduate students to share in the energetic, multi-faceted research environment within the Humanities and Social Sciences Divisions at NYUAD.

The Dissertation Writing Fellowship will be conducted in residence at NYUAD and is open to NYU PhD scholars working in all areas of the Humanities and Social Sciences, with successful applicants taking advantage of working for the year with a NYUAD faculty member in their field.

NYUAD invites applications for this Fellowship from NYU PhD students whose dissertations will be advanced works in progress during the Fellowship year. Preference will be given to applicants whose research topic can benefit from NYUAD expertise in related fields while contributing to NYUAD's fast-developing research environment. Fellows are expected to enrich the NYUAD intellectual community by sharing their work with faculty and students and participating in scholarly networks within the university.

Application Open: January, 2024

Application deadline: march 1, 2024. students should submit their application materials to  [email protected] . , download the nyu abu dhabi dissertation writing fellowship application, award terms & benefits.

*Up to three Fellowships will be available in 2024-2025.*

• The Dissertation Writing Fellowship runs for the 12-month 2024-2025 academic year. During this period, scholars are offered work space in the appropriate academic Division, full use of NYUAD's library facilities, in-kind graduate housing at NYUAD's campus on Saadiyat Island, a fellowship stipend of $30,000, waiver of maintenance of matriculation fees, international health insurance, and support for economy travel to and from Abu Dhabi for the program.
• Dissertation Writing Fellowship recipients are responsible for conforming to tax requirements of their home countries.
• Receiving the Dissertation Writing Fellowship is contingent on successfully passing the UAE security clearance process and obtaining a UAE visa.
• Students should submit their application materials to [email protected]. All application materials must be received by March 1, 2024.

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NYU GSAS Fellowships

Fellowship types.

GSAS Dissertation Fellowships

Dissertation Research Fellowships are for students who are in a research stage of their dissertation. Recipients of research fellowships are not obligated to complete their degree at the end of the fellowship term. 

Dissertation Writing Fellowships  are for students who are in the writing stage of their dissertation. It is expected that students receiving these awards will complete their dissertations and graduate by the end of the academic year.

All applicants must have first been nominated by their department.

GSAS Summer Fellowships & Achievement Awards

GSAS Summer Fellowships are for PhD and Master’s students who need to conduct summer research for their dissertations or theses. 

Achievement Awards  are for students who have been outstanding student teachers or had exceptional dissertations or theses.

Public Humanities Fellowships

The Fellowship application for AY 2025-2026 will open in Fall 2024.

Research Fellowships

Dissertation research fellowships :.

Departments may nominate: one (1) student for Lane Cooper, and one (1) student for Elain Brody [provided that Elaine Brody is available] 

Lane Cooper Fellowship (1 nomination per department)

One award is available to a GSAS student in an Arts and Science humanities department with a clear intent to pursue a teaching career in the following: 

English language and literature (especially in the periods of Old and Middle English)

P hilosophy or history, either ancient or medieval

Research may concern any period up to and including, but not later th e n, the Renaissance. 

Eligibility: 

IFA and ISAW are eligible to apply.

Cinema Studies and Performance Studies are not eligible to apply. 

[NOT AVAILABLE FOR 2024-2025] Elaine Brody Fellowship for the Humanities (1 nomination per department)

Only offered every other academic year.

One award is available to a GSAS student in Arts and Science based humanities departments whose planned dissertation requires extended research abroad . 

The student should have:

  C ompleted all coursework

H ave an approved dissertation proposal

B e planning to travel abroad to complete their dissertation research.

The project description should clearly indicate the need for extended research outside of the United States and its territories. 

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PS Ph.D. Candidate Yarden Stern awarded GSAS Dissertation Fellowship

Friday, Apr 8, 2022

Yarden Stern

Performance Studies Ph.D. candidate Yarden Stern was awarded a Dean's Dissertation Fellowship for the 2022-23 academic year.  

Dissertation Abstract: Bodies Without Borders: Queerly Performing Israeli Citizenship

Across distinctive genres of contemporary art and performance in Israel/Palestine, “Bodies without Borders: Queerly Performing Israeli Citizenship,” asks: How are queer Israeli subjects performing the entanglements of Israeli identity with Israeli settler-colonial violence? And how is this contemporary generation of queer Israelis making possible alternative conceptions and ethics of national belonging? A growing body of scholarship and critique explores how the Israeli state, a self-branded democratic haven for LGBT citizens, uses queer rights as a smokescreen for the ongoing occupation of Palestine while suppressing meaningful political participation by queer Israelis. This dissertation builds on these critiques by analyzing and amplifying the perspectives of an emerging generation of queer subjects -- Israeli, Palestinian, Bedouin, and Arab-Israeli citizens of Israel -- who mobilize their citizenship against statesanctioned violence, generally, and Palestinian dispossession, in particular.

Congratulations Yarden!

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Eirik Bjorge Senior Global Research Fellow  Norway

Eirik Bjorge is a Professor of Law at Bristol University Law School in the United Kingdom. He has written mainly about public international law, human rights law, public law, and the intersections between these fields. At present his research is focused on sanctions in international law and on “general principles of law”. He has previously taught at Sciences Po Law School, Paris, and the University of Oxford and in 2013–2016 he was a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. In 2020 he was a visiting professor at La Sapienza University Rome. Eirik is an Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.

He is the author of  The Evolutionary Interpretation of Treaties  (OUP 2014), which was awarded the King of Norway’s Gold Medal, and Domestic Application of the ECHR: Courts as Faithful Trustees (OUP 2015) and a co-editor (with Cameron Miles) of  Landmark Cases in Public International Law (Hart 2017, reissue 2020) and (with Mads Andenas QC) of  Farewell to Fragmentation: Reassertion and Convergence in International Law (CUP 2015). He is a co-author (with Sir Frank Berman KCMG QC) of the chapters on the law of treaties in the forthcoming Oppenheim’s International Law (10th edn, OUP) and Satow’s Diplomatic Practice  (8th edn, OUP). His articles have appeared in e.g. the American Journal of International Law, the British Yearbook of International Law, the Law Quarterly Review, the Cambridge Law Journal, and ICON. He has sat as an arbitrator (ICC) and acts as counsel in international proceedings (before e.g. the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, and ICSID and UNCITRAL arbitration tribunals ).

Center Affiliation: Institute for International Law and Justice Research Project:  Imposition of unilateral sanctions and the duty not to deprive a people of its own means of subsistence

Elena De Nictolis Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Italy

Elena De Nictolis research focuses on how to understand and assess the role of cities in tackling polycentric, complex problems through urban public policies and collective action mechanisms. She also has interest in the governance of urban resources, services, and infrastructures as commons within the context of the economic crisis and urban commons policy innovations. Her research on this focused on Italian cities and cities in Europe.

Elena was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University (2021-2022); visiting researcher and teaching fellow at ICD Herlzliya (Harry Radzyner Law School 2022); postdoc at Luiss (Department of Political Science) (2019-2021) where she was lecturer (adjunct) at the Department of Law and Political Science (climate justice; urban law and policy; governance of innovation and sustainability). Elena is currently a member of the NYC Mayor Panel on Climate Change (equity workgroup).

Elena holds a BA and MA (Politics) and a PhD (Political Theory, Political Science and Political History) from Luiss (Rome).

At NYU, Elena will be affiliated with the Guarini Center for Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law. She will further pursue research on urban law and policy and the role of cities in tackling crises of a global nature through an institutional approach.

Center Affiliation: Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law Research Projects:  The urban challenge to contemporary law and policy categories? Cities as legal experimental grounds to tackle climate disruptions.

Neli Frost Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Israel

Neli Frost is a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. Her project at NYU will focus on the legal and normative challenges posed by the increasing harnessing of artificial intelligence capabilities in global governance. Her research and teaching interests include international law and international human rights law, with a thematic focus on international legal theory and democratic jurisprudence in the context of the intersections between law and technology.

Neli received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in April 2022, and holds an LLM, an LLB and a BA in East Asian Studies from Tel-Aviv University. Her research to date has centered on the regulatory roles performed by transnational corporations in the field of human rights (EJIL 2021) and on the hazards that Information and Communication Technology companies pose to the infrastructures of democratic governance. During her time at Cambridge Neli supervised International Law for undergraduates, taught LLM workshops on international human rights and the law of global governance, and was an Associate Editor of the British Yearbook of International Law.

Center Affiliation: Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Research Project:  The ‘political voice’ in the age of the algorithm: the novel democratic challenges of AI-based global governance

Arthur Guerra Filho  (Spring) Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Brazil

Arthur Guerra Filho is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Sao Paulo (USP), where he is also a member of the Constitution, Politics and Institutions (CoPI) research group. His postdoc research is funded by a FAPESP fellowship. Arthur’s research and teaching interests include constitutional law, electoral law, antitrust law, and media law. He has research expertise on the legal regulation of the democratic process, particularly issues on political finance (campaign finance and party funding), lobbying and political corruption. He has also written on the relationship between antimonopoly law and democracy.

Arthur holds a PhD in Law from King’s College London (funded by a CAPES/ Ministry of Education of Brazil scholarship), a Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of California at Berkeley, and a law degree (LLB) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo. His work has been published in leading international journals, such as the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (Oxford University Press) and King’s Law Journal (Routledge). Before his PhD, Arthur practiced law in Brazil at Oliveira Marques Advogados Associados, where he first joined as an associate lawyer and later became a partner.

His current postdoc research at the University of Sao Paulo looks at how the Brazilian Judiciary has decided cases of Operation Car Wash (arguably the largest anti-corruption operation in history) and its implications for the Brazilian constitutional democracy. At NYU Law, Arthur will examine the experience of the United States in dealing with similar cases about corruption in campaign finance and gifts given to politicians.

Research Project:  Courts, Political Finance Corruption and the Contours of Democracy: The Experiences of Brazil and the US

Rocío Lorca Global Research Fellow Chile

Rocío Lorca is assistant professor of criminal law in the School of Law of the University of Chile. Besides teaching Criminal Law, Professor Lorca teaches seminars on Punishment and Poverty, Philosophy of Punishment, and Gender and Punishment. Her research focuses on the philosophy of punishment, and particularly on the relationship between criminal justice and other spheres of justice such as economic and political justice. Currently she has been exploring abolitionist discourses and the conceptual and philosophical reasons that have been raised against it. Her work has been published in numerous journals and books in Spanish and has published in English in journals such as  Criminal Law and Philosophy ,  The Leiden Journal of International Law ,  Law Culture and the Humanities , and in  The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence .

As a Hauser Global Fellow she will spend the academic year working on a research project about the concept of impunity and its impact on the punitive imagination of critical social movements such as the feminist and the human rights movements. She will be associated with the Center for Law and Philosophy.

She holds a law degree from University of Chile (´07), an LLM in Legal Theory from NYU (´10) and a JSD also from NYU (´15).  She received a Fulbright Scholarship (’09) for her study in the US, and in 2018 she was a Fellow in the Transnational Program for Criminal Justice at UCLA’s School of Law.

Center Affiliation: Center for Law and Philosophy Research Project:  The punitive imagination in the fight against impunity

Fernando Lusa Bordin  (Fall) Global Research Fellow Brazil

Fernando Lusa Bordin is an Assistant Professor in International Law at the University of Cambridge, where he also serves as John Thornely Fellow in Law at Sidney Sussex College and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. His research focuses on topics of public international law, including international legal theory, law-making, the law of international organizations, international dispute settlement, the law on the use of force and international investment law. His monograph,  The Analogy between States and International Organizations,  was published by Cambridge University Press and received the 2020 Certificate of Merit in a Specialized Area of International Law from the American Society of International Law.

Prior to taking his post in Cambridge, Fernando received an LLB (with honours) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), an LLM from NYU School of Law (where he was a Grotius Scholar), the Diploma of Public International Law from the Hague Academy of International Law and a PhD from the University in Cambridge (for which he received the Yorke Prize). He served as Assistant to Professor Giorgio Gaja at the International Law Commission in the summers of 2009 and 2011, and as Judicial Fellow (law clerk) to Judge Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade at the International Court of Justice between 2009 and 2010. He also worked as Research Associate to Prof James Crawford in 2014, and served as Junior Counsel for Mauritius in the  Chagos Marine Protected Area Arbitration (Mauritius v UK).

Between 2016 and 2018, Fernando served as Assistant to the ICSID Tribunal constituted to hear the case of  Veolia Propreté v. Arab Republic of Egypt  (ARB/12/15).

Center Affiliation: Institute for International Law and Justice Research Project:  International Organizations as Law-Maker

Sebastián Mantilla Blanco  (Spring) Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Germany

Sebastián is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for Public Law of the University of Bonn (Germany). His current research focuses on the effects of treaty termination over non-State beneficiaries of international treaties. At NYU, Sebastián will analyze the protection of foreign investors in the event of unilateral or mutual termination of investment agreements.

Sebastián holds a Doctorate in Law (Dr. Iur.) from the University of Bonn ( summa cum laude / dissertation award from the Konrad-Redeker Foundation); an LLM from the University of Bonn ( summa cum laude ); and a law degree (LLB equivalent) from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá (Colombia).

Sebastián has published widely on different subjects of international law, including investment law, trade law, and international legal history. His English language publications include the books Full Protection and Security in International Investment Law (Springer 2019) and National Security Exceptions in International Trade and Investment Agreements (Springer 2020, coauthored with A. Pehl). In addition to his academic activities, Sebastián has gained experience in international arbitration as an independent Counsel of Zuleta Abogados (Colombia). He has also been a Visiting Professor at Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia).

Center Affiliation: Institute for International Law and Justice Research Project:  Termination of Investment Treaties and Third-Party Rights

Weimin Shen Post-Doctoral Global Fellow China

Weimin Shen is a Post-Doctoral Fellow affiliated with the Center for Law, Economics, and Organization. Her research focuses on antitrust and competition policy. She is particularly interested in how domestic and international competition policy instruments, such as antitrust or competition laws, interact with international trade.

Weimin received her JSD and LLM from Washington University School of Law, EdM from the University of Massachusetts, and LLB from Fudan University. She earned the 2022 Antitrust Writing Award for Best Student Article in the Student Category for “Assessing the Strategic Situation Underlying International Antitrust Cooperation.” Her work in English has appeared in or is forthcoming in the Journal of Transnational Law & Policy and the Emory International Law Review.

At NYU Law, Weimin will examine critical roadblocks in the way of certain significant and warranted international antitrust cooperation.

Center Affiliation: Center for Law, Economics, and Organization Research Project:  (1) Market Power and Inequality: A Case Study of International Antitrust Regulation/(2) International Antitrust Negotiations and Developing Countries’ Preferences

Ewan Smith  (Spring) Post-Doctoral Global Fellow United Kingdom

Dr Ewan Smith is a Fixed Term Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford and an Early Career Fellow at Oxford University's Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. Ewan read law at Oxford, the University of Paris and Harvard Law School. He has previously taught at the University of London and Tsinghua University in China and has been a Visiting Researcher at Peking University and the National University of Singapore. He is admitted to practice in New York, where he worked for Debevoise and Plimpton LLP. Before returning to Oxford, Ewan spent ten years working as a diplomat for the UK Foreign Office. He advises governments and other organisations. Ewan’s work looks at how rules govern powerful institutions, with a focus on foreign relations law and comparative public law. His recent work on China looks at the how the Communist Party conceives of familiar ideas like the rule of law and the separation of powers.  His recent work on the UK argues that we should enable Parliament, judges and civil servants to hold our foreign policy to account, and suggests how we might do that. At NYU, he will be working on a monograph about the relationship between written and unwritten constitutions.

Center Affiliation: US-Asia Law Institute Research Project: Written Constitutions?

Adam Strobeyko  (Spring) Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Poland

Adam Strobeyko is a researcher at the Global Health Centre at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Adam has done his PhD in International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute; he has also obtained a MA degree from Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po, and an LLB in European Law from Maastricht University.

Having written his doctoral dissertation on the history of sovereignty, Adam is particularly interested in the processes of digitalization of the welfare state and in the outsourcing of public functions of the state to private entities. His experience in global health law led Adam to think about the increasing use of biometric technologies, the storage and transfer of health data and about the forays of tech companies into digital health.

At NYU, Adam will conduct a research project seeking to offer an infrastructural account of ‘smart walls’ programs in the US and in the EU. In the course of his project, Adam will study the contracting between public and private entities for the purpose of border surveillance. He will explore the role of infrastructures provided by private companies, with a particular focus on biometric and unmanned devices, for the purpose of monitoring of the borders of the sovereign state.

Center Affiliation: Guarini Global Law & Tech Research Project:  The Surveillance Assemblage: An Infrastructural Account of ‘Smart Walls’ in the US and EU

Oren Tamir Post-Doctoral Global Fellow USA and Israel

Oren is a research fellow at Harvard Law, where he is working with several offices there to democratize and diversify legal knowledge. His research interests are primarily in public law, both U.S. and comparative.

Oren received his SJD and LLM from Harvard Law School and LLB ( magna cum laude ) from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Before starting his graduate studies, he clerked for Justice (now Chief Justice) Esther Hayut of the Israeli Supreme Court and worked for three years as an assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel and Legislative Affairs in Israel’s Ministry of Justice. Oren’s work has been published or is forthcoming in, among other venues, the Maryland Law Review , the Chicago Journal of International Law , and the Berkeley Journal of International Law , and he is also in the process of completing on a U.S. constitutional law case book, co-authored with Professor Lawrence Lessig, which will be out with MIT Press and is intended to also be the first of its kind to be available in electronic form (in cooperation with Harvard Law School’s Innovation Lab).

While at NYU Law, Oren will work on several projects. He will be finalizing his book manuscript that aims to offer a new theory of constitutional review, both for the U.S. and comparatively. He will also be completing a project that attempts to re-imagine the field of administrative law and to suggest how we should build administrative states around the world in a way that would put them on a stronger, much more attractive, footing (among other things as a response to various attempts around the world to bring forth their “deconstruction” and to attack knowledge and expertise). Finally, Oren will work on a project that criticizes the literature on “abusive constitutionalism” or “democratic decline”—suggesting that it has complicated “dark sides” that are counterproductive to this literature’s aim of better safeguarding democracies.

Center Affiliation:  Center for Human Rights and Global Justice  Research Project:  Abusive "Abusive Constitutionalism"

Maximilien Zahnd (Fall) Post-Doctoral Global Fellow France

Maximilien (Max) Zahnd is a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law. His research strives to unpack tax law’s legal, socio-cultural, spatial, political, and ethnohistorical dimensions. Max holds a JSD from Berkeley Law, where he was a 2019-2020 BELS Fellow. At Berkeley Law, his work studied (1) how the Territory of Alaska used tax law to advance settler colonialism and (2) how Alaska Natives used tribal taxation to fight back. Part of this research is forthcoming in Law & Social Inquiry. Max is also about to submit his PhD thesis in Polar Studies/Geography (University of Cambridge) for examination. The thesis chronicles the socio-legal history of the Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government.

Before coming to NYU Law, Max was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford. Prior to this, he was a 2020-2021 Fellow-in-Residence at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, and a Doctoral Visiting Fellow at Sciences Po Law School.

While at NYU Law, Max will refine and broaden his PhD thesis into a book manuscript. He will also work on articles that further interrogate tax law’s entanglement with Indigenous sovereignty and settler colonialism.

Center Affiliation: Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law Research Project:  Indigenous Sovereignty, Tax Law, and Settler Colonialism in Alaska

2021-2022 Academic Year

Thiago Amparo (Fall) Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Brazil

Thiago de Souza Amparo is a professor at FGV Direito SP and FGV International Relations School, teaching courses on human rights, international law, diversity and discrimination policies and law. He is a lawyer, with a bachelor's degree from PUC-SP, a master's degree in human rights (LLM) from the Central European University and a PhD from the same university. He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University (New York - United States). He is expert in constitutional law, public policy as well as diversity and antidiscrimination law. He was a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Open Society Foundations, among others, on the issue of racial and LGBT discrimination. He was deputy secretary of human rights and citizenship at the São Paulo City Hall between January and May 2017. He writes weekly for the main newspaper in Brazil, Folha de S. Paulo .

Center Affiliation: Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law Research Project:  Not a Gradual Authoritarianism: Black and LGBT Voices for Democracy in Brazil

Thomas Bustamante (Fall) Global Research Fellow Brazil

Thomas Bustamante is Professor of Legal Theory at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, since 2010 and Research Productivity Fellow of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil, since 2013. He has been a Fellow of the University of São Paulo under the auspices of a grant from São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), in 2015, and previously held academic positions at the University of Aberdeen, UK (2008-2010) and the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil (2004-2008). He holds a PhD from the Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro. Some of his works in English appear in the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence , Modern Law Review , Jurisprudence , Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy and German Law Journal. He has edited the books  Democratizing Constitutional Law: Perspectives on Legal Theory and the Legitimacy of Constitutionalism (with Bernardo Fernandes, 2016), Argument Types and Fallacies in Legal Argumentation (with Christian Dahlman, 2015) and On the Philosophy of Precedent (with Carlos Bernal Pulido, 2012).

Center Affiliation: Center for Law and Philosophy Research Project: Challenging the Standard Picture of International Law: A Case for Dworkinian Monism

Shlomo Cohen Global Research Fellow Israel

Shlomo Cohen is a senior lecturer in the department of philosophy at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He received his PhD in philosophy (summa cum laude) as well as his Medical Doctor degree from Hebrew University, in Jerusalem. Shlomo held research fellowships at Columbia University (as a Fulbright doctoral student), at UCLA (post-doctoral), and at the London School of Economics (the Center for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences).

Shlomo specializes in moral philosophy – both normative and applied ethics. His research in recent years has focused on such topics as: paternalism and autonomy, informed consent, truthfulness and deception, the limits of moral obligation, various topics in bioethics, and experimental philosophy. His publications on these topics appeared in the European Journal of Philosophy, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Bioethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, American Journal of Bioethics , and more. From 2017 to 2020 Shlomo served as the chairperson of the Institutional Review Board of Ben-Gurion University.

In the center of Shlomo’s current work are two large research projects. The first (funded by an Israel Science Foundation grant) is a book on the concept and ethics of manipulation. The second is a study of the concepts of respect and dignity and of their place in ethics and in the idea of being human.

Center Affiliation: Center for Law and Philosophy Research Projects: The Philosophy of Respect and Dignity - New Explorations and   A Theory of Manipulation

Alexandre de Streel Global Research Fellow Belgium

Alexandre de Streel is Professor of European law at the University of Namur, affiliated at the Research Centre for Information, Law and Society (CRIDS/NADI). He is also visiting professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and SciencesPo Paris, Academic Co-director at the Brussels-based think-tank Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), Chair of the expert group of the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy set up by the European Commission and part-time judge at the Belgian Competition Authority.

His main areas of research are regulation and competition policy in the digital economy as well as the legal issues raised by the development of Artificial Intelligence. He is the co-editor of Electronic communications, Audiovisual Services and the Internet: EU Competition Law and Regulation, 4 th ed., Sweet & Maxwell, 2019.

Previously, he has been senior European advisor to the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, attaché in charge of economic and employment policies at the Belgian Permanent Representation to the European Union during the 2010 Belgian Presidency and expert in charge of telecommunications regulation at the European Commission.

He holds a Ph.D. in Law from the European University Institute (Florence) on the relationship between telecom regulation and competition law, and a Master Degree in Economics from the University of Louvain.

Center Affiliation: Information Law Institute Research Project: Regulating Big Tech: A Sisyphean work?

You Kyung Huh Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Republic of Korea (South Korea)

You Kyung Huh is a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement. Her project at NYU Law examines the effect of political influence behind consumer protection-related enforcement actions that independent regulatory agencies conduct. Her research explores the implications of the allocation of multiple financial regulatory goals to government agencies, and the interplay between regulatory architecture and political control of the bureaucracy.

You Kyung received her S.J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, 2020, and LL.M.’s from Harvard Law School (concentration in International Finance), 2013, and Georgetown University Law Center, 2014.

You Kyung was a director of Consumers Korea, an advocacy group that lobbied lawmakers and regulators for consumer protection in financial markets in the areas of consumer redress, Fintech, personal data protection, and artificial intelligence. She was also a Council Member of Consumers International, where she provided consumer advocacy strategies at the international level. She was admitted to the Korean Bar in 2006 and worked as an attorney at the Korean Financial Supervisory Service.

Her primary scholarly interest is understanding whether and how the institutional architecture of financial regulators affects the performance of those regulators, especially with respect to consumer protection issues. Her publication on this topic appeared as a chapter in The Cambridge Handbook of Twin Peaks Financial Regulation (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Her other research interests include the international financial regulation of consumer protection, and SupTech – the use of informational technology for financial supervision.

Center Affiliation: Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement Research Project: Beyond Twin Peaks Financial Regulation: Consumer Protection, Political Control, and Digital Finance

Jiaying Christine Jiang Post-Doctoral Global Fellow China

Jiaying is a Post-Doctoral Fellow affiliated with the Information Law Institute. Her research focuses on the interaction between law and technology, especially policies and regulations on emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, smart contracts, digital currencies, FinTech, and LegalTech. Her research interests also include computational law, comparative law, data rights, platform competition, and privacy issues.

At NYU Law, Jiaying will analyze if sandbox and technology can be a new regulatory approach for blockchain implementation. In addition, she is the co-leader of the Central Bank Digital Currency project, cooperating with the China Center at Yale Law School. She is also a contributor of the RegTrax Initiative at the CodeX, Stanford Law School.

Jiaying received her SJD from Emory University School of Law, LLM from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, where she received the Graduate and International Programs Award at the Annual Shattuck Awards, and LLB from Shenzhen University (with distinction). She is admitted to the bars in China and the State of New York.

Center Affiliation: Information Law Institute Research Project: Central Bank Digital Currencies and Consumer Privacy

Henning Lahmann Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Germany

Henning Lahmann is a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with Guarini Law & Tech. His project at NYU Law examines the significance of non-state actor truth production, and their use of digital technologies to challenge states’ narratives, for the stability of the global legal order. His other research interests include international and transnational cybersecurity governance, disinformation and influence operations, and the legal implications of the employment of artificial intelligence in security contexts.

Henning works as a senior researcher at the Digital Society Institute at the ESMT Berlin and at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, where he is involved in a research project on the “Protection of the Global Information Space.” In 2019, he was a visiting research fellow at the Israel Public Policy Institute in Tel Aviv. He studied law and philosophy at the University of Hamburg and the Charles University in Prague and holds a doctoral degree in international law (2017) from the University of Potsdam (Germany). Henning has held research fellow positions at the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel, at the University of Potsdam, and at the Collaborative Research Center “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood” at the Free University of Berlin. From 2014 to 2018, he served as the German rapporteur for Freedom House’s annual “Freedom on the Net” report.

Center Affiliation: Guarini Global Law & Tech Research Project:  Substitute Narration: Non-State Actor Truth Production and the Epistemic Crisis of International Law

Patricio Nazareno (Spring) Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Argentina

Patricio Nazareno is a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. His current research project focuses on criminal accountability for human rights violations and the tensions it raises between international law and tribunals and domestic politics and activism.

Patricio holds JSD and LLM degrees from Yale Law School, a law degree and an LLM from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, and a political science BA from Universidad Católica de Córdoba. He currently teaches constitutional law, legal theory, and procedure at Universidad de San Andrés Law School, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has also practiced administrative law, clerked for the Inter-American Court, and frequently advises Argentine government agencies on legal issues and projects for legislative reform.

Patricio’s main areas of interest include constitutional law, social movements, legal history, international human rights, and legal culture and discourse. After his doctoral dissertation, his scholarship has turned to consider the legal and political complexities of the decision-making processes that polities, especially in Latin America, are undertaking in order to overturn the widespread impunity for the human rights violations perpetrated in the past.

Center Affiliation: Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Research Project: Justice in Frames

Yuanyuan Ren Post-Doctoral Global Fellow China

Yuanyuan Ren received a Doctor of Juridical Sciences (S.J.D.) from the University of Wisconsin Law School in May 2021 and a Ph.D. in International Law from Fudan University Law School in 2012. She was a Fox International Fellow at the MacMillan Center for Area and International Studies at Yale University from 2010 to 2011 and worked as an assistant research professor at Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC) in Shanghai from 2012 to 2013. Her research and teaching interests include public international law, World Trade Organization (WTO) law, and international dispute resolution. She is particularly interested in understanding how China treats international law as its weight continually increases in the economic and political world order. Her recent research has focused on China’s engagement in the polar regions.

Her project at NYU School of Law examines the opportunities for and constraints to U.S.-China cooperation in the Arctic.

Center Affiliation: US-Asia Law Institute Research Project: U.S.-China Arctic Cooperation in the New Era of Great Power Competition: Opportunities and Challenges

Rossella Sabia (Spring) Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Italy

Rossella Sabia is a post-doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with NYU’s Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement. Her main research interests and publications lie in the fields of corporate criminal law, anti-corruption, environmental criminal law, counter-terrorism, criminal compliance and new technologies.

Rossella is currently Research Fellow and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Criminal Law at the Department of Law, Luiss University, Rome. Prior to join NYU, she was Fellow at the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” of Goethe University, Frankfurt, and visiting student for a specialization course on business crime at the Norwegian School of Economics, Oslo. She spent visiting research periods at Paris Nanterre (Centre de Droit pénale et de criminologie) and Cambridge.

She holds a PhD in Law and Business from Luiss University (2018), where she worked under the supervision of the former Italian Minister of Justice and Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Corruption, Paola Severino. Her doctoral dissertation investigates the role of anti-corruption compliance programs across Europe, addressing the interrelations between such preventive tools and the subjective criteria (‘corporate fault’) for attributing criminal liability to corporations.

At NYU, Rossella will build on her previous research to further expand this subject. She will compare the anti-corruption enforcement regimes against corporations of selected EU countries with the US experience, to examine to what extent mechanisms like non-trial settlements, widely used in the US framework, could be exported to Italy and the European context.

Center Affiliation: Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement Research Project: Anti-corruption Enforcement Against Corporations. Lessons for Europe from the U.S. Experience

Sandy Steel (Fall) Global Research Fellow United Kingdom

Sandy Steel is Lee Shau Kee's Sir Man Kam Lo Fellow in Law at Wadham College and Associate Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law at Oxford. He's interested in philosophical and doctrinal questions about private law. He has written mainly about torts and private law theory, but also maintains an interest in general jurisprudence and has co-authored (with Nick McBride) a critical guide to the subject: Great Debates in Jurisprudence (Palgrave, 2014, 2nd edn 2018). 

His work has been cited by the UK Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Canada, and the High Court of Australia. In 2016, he was awarded the Modern Law Review's Wedderburn Prize for his article 'Justifying Exceptions to Proof of Causation in Tort Law'. His other book, Proof of Causation in Tort Law (Cambridge University Press, 2015, paperback edn 2017) won the Society of Legal Scholars Birks Runner-up Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship. He's currently working on a book about liability for omissions for Oxford University Press. 

Center Affiliation: Center for Law and Philosophy Research Project: Omissions Liability in Tort

Mihreteab Tsighe Taye Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Ethiopia

Mihreteab Tsighe Taye is a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Institute for International Law and Justice. His research interest includes human rights, the evolution of international courts, the role and power of lawyers in regional integration and international courts, the increasing importance of and threat to supranational legal institutions, particularly international courts. His current research project focuses on resistance and backlash against regional international courts in Europe and Africa.

Before joining NYU, he was an assistant professor at the School of Law and Federalism, Ethiopian Civil Service University and a Lead Researcher at the Institute of Strategic Affairs in Ethiopia. He has taught international law and international organizations, dispute settlement in international law, international human rights law, and international watercourses law. Mihreteab held visiting research positions at the University of Graz and Northwestern University.

Mihreteab holds a Ph.D. in Law from the Center of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts), Copenhagen University, LL.M. degree in International Law from Erasmus University Rotterdam and LLB from Addis Ababa University.

Center Affiliation:  Institute for International Law and Justice Research Project:  Contesting Authority: Causes, Forms and Consequences of Resistance to Regional International Courts in Europe and Africa

Ying Zhou Post-Doctoral Global Fellow China

Ying Zhou is a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the US-Asia Law Institute. Her research interests include conflict of laws, comparative legal theories, international anti-corruption policies, cross-national workplace dispute resolution, and legal and cultural implications of China’s rise in the global economy. Her recent research agenda straddles the intersection of cultural anthropology and international dispute resolution. Specifically, she explores the role of culture in international dispute resolution and how a more sophisticated and nuanced understanding of cultural differences facilitates conflict resolution at national, regional, and global levels.

Ying holds JSD and LLM degrees from Cornell Law School, where she received the CALI Award and served as the President of the JSD Association of Cornell Law School from 2017 to 2018, and LLB from Shandong University (with distinction). She is admitted to the bars in China and the State of New York.

At NYU, Ying’s research seeks to understand the challenges that the Chinese business model presents to the global community from the perspective of cultural conflicts. She examines conflicts between Chinese and foreign business cultures in two dimensions: China as a global FDI destination and China’s economic presence in overseas markets. Her research also aims to show how the highly technical field of conflict of laws, when imagined and applied as an intellectual framework, offers new approaches to understanding, evaluating, and ultimately resolving cultural conflicts in international business.

Center Affiliation:  US-Asia Law Institute Research Project: Regulatory Conflicts and Competition over the Clean Belt and Road Initiative: China, the US, and Conflict of Laws in Transnational Anti-Bribery Regime

2020-2021 Academic Year

Shelly Aviv Yeini Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Israel

Shelly Aviv Yeini is a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Institute for International Law and Justice. Her research interests include public international law, constitutional law and labor law. Within the field of public international law Shelly takes special interest in customary international law and the ways in which rules of customary international law have adapted to modern reality.

At NYU, Shelly will work on a project titled “The Persistent Objector Doctrine: Identifying Contradictions”. The research aims to identify and catalogue behaviors that disqualify states from persistent objector status, offering guidelines to differentiate legitimate behavior within the persistent objector doctrine framework from behavior forming an inconsistency in a state's objection.

Shelly holds a Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University (Israel) and an M.St. in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford.

Center Affiliation: Institute for International Law and Justice Research Project: The Persistent Objector Doctrine: Identifying Contradictions

Thomas Bustamante Global Research Fellow Brazil

Center Affiliation: Center for Law and Philosophy Research Project: Special Obligations and Judicial Roles: A Philosophical Account of Judicial Legitimacy

Alexandre de Streel is Professor of European law at the University of Namur (Belgium) where he is the Director of the Research Centre for Information, Law and Society (CRIDS/NADI). He is also a joint-academic director at the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), a Brussels-based think tank where he manages the digital studies and assessor at the Belgian Competition Authority. Alexandre is also visiting professor at the European University Institute (Florence) and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and member of the Scientific Committee of the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI).

His main areas of research are the regulation and the application of antitrust law to the digital economy as well as the legal issues raised by the development of artificial intelligence. He is the co-editor of Electronic communications, Audiovisual Services and the Internet: EU Competition Law and Regulation (Sweet & Maxwell, 2019) which is one the main textbook on the EU regulation of the digital economy.

He is currently advising the European Commission and the European Parliament on the future EU regulation of digital platforms. Previously, he has been senior European advisor to the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, attaché at the Belgian Permanent Representation to the European Union and an advisor in charge of telecommunications regulation at the European Commission.

Center Affiliation: Information Law Institute Research Project: The Economic Regulation of Digital Power

Edit Frenyó Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Hungary

Edit Frenyó is a post-doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with NYU’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. Her research interests include family law, labor migration, human rights, welfare and social policy. Edit holds a JD from the University of Szeged (Hungary), an LL.M. from Boston College Law School and an SJD from Georgetown Law.

As an adjunct professor, Edit co-taught the Family Law course at Georgetown, with her dissertation supervisor Prof. Judith C. Areen. In 2016, she served as an adjunct professor at McDaniel College Budapest, teaching a course on the rights of unaccompanied minors in the European Union. Prior to NYU, Edit was a Steinberg Post-Doctoral Fellow in Migration Law and Policy, at McGill University Faculty of Law, working closely with Prof. François Crépeau, former UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants. She guest lectured in numerous courses at McGill and taught a self-designed intensive course on the human rights implications of the externalization of migration controls. Edit also served as the Coordinator for the Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law.

Edit’s research applies perspectives of law and the social sciences to explore the contemporary phenomena of “transnational families and households”. Her dissertation focused on the multiple challenges to childcare faced by families of labor migrants, as key to improving the regulatory frameworks surrounding them. Her post-doctoral work explores the transnational, semi-formal welfare systems created by migrant households and how they challenge state-centric normative frameworks of social protection and policy. Her case studies involve domestic care-work migration within the European Union’s growing elder care market.

In 2019, she contributed a chapter entitled "Transnational Families and the Right to Family Life in the Age of Global Migration." to Stark, Barbara and Heaton, ed. 2019. Routledge Handbook of International Family Law.

Center Affiliation: Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Research Project: Transnationalizing the European Household – Elder Care and the Future of Transnational Social Policy in Europe

Yağmur Hortoğlu Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Turkey

Yağmur Hortoğlu is a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law. Her current research focuses on arbitration law and private international law.

Prior to joining NYU, Yağmur has been a Teaching Assistant at Sorbonne Law School and Cergy-Pontoise University. She has taught private international law, introduction to civil law, family law, legal liability and corporate law. For several years, she has been contributing to various monographies on family law and criminal law in Turkey. In 2019, she contributed a chapter entitled « The Law Governing the Liability of Arbitrators » to the second edition of Franco Ferrari and Stefan Kröll’s book on Conflict of Laws in International Commercial Arbitration, published by Juris.

For her Ph.D. thesis ( summa cum laude ), which she prepared under the co-supervision of Professor Mathias Audit (Sorbonne) and Professor Franco Ferrari (NYU) at Sorbonne Law School, Yağmur worked on “Fraud and Arbitration”. She holds a bachelor’s degree with a specialization on Private Law and a master’s degree in Private International Law and Business Law from Sorbonne Law School. She also holds a MSc on Applied Positive Psychology from East London University.

In 2008, Yağmur was awarded merit-based excellence scholarship granted by the French Government. She has also been a laureate of scholarships from the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law in 2017 and then the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg in 2018.

Since 2017, Yağmur Hortoğlu has been acting as a legal counsel before the European Court of Human Rights for Turkish applicants.

Center Affiliation: Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law   Research Project: Fraud and Arbitration Law: The Case of Arbitral Fraud and How to Fight Against It

Center Affiliation: Information Law Institute Research Project: Can Sandbox and Technology be a New Regulatory Approach for Blockchain Implementation in Financial Markets?

Patricio Nazareno Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Argentina

Yuanyuan Ren received her Ph.D. in international law from Fudan University Law School in 2012 and LL.M. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2014. She was a Fox International Fellow at the MacMillan Center for Area and International Studies at Yale University from 2010 to 2011 and worked as an assistant research professor at Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC) from 2012 to 2013. She is currently a Doctor of Juridical Sciences (S.J.D.) candidate at the University of Wisconsin Law School and expects to receive her degree in December 2020.

Her scholarly and teaching interests include public international law, World Trade Organization (WTO) law, polar law, and international dispute resolution. She is particularly interested in understanding how China treats international law as its weight continually increases in the economic and political world order. Her recent research has focused on China’s engagement in the polar regions.

Her project at NYU School of Law will examine the opportunities for and constraints to U.S.-China cooperation in the Arctic.

Rossella Sabia Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Italy

Xiaoren Wang Post-Doctoral Global Fellow China

Xiaoren Wang is a post-doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy. Her research interests include intellectual property law, empirical studies, law and economics, law and psychologies.

Xiaoren received her J.S.D degree at the University of Illinois in May of 2019. Her doctoral research focused on the empirical study of aesthetic functionality in US trademark law. After that, she worked as a Max Web fellow (2019-2020) in the European University Institute, Italy. During her post-doctoral Global Fellowship in NYU, she is also a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow (UK) since October 2020, working on a project “Platform Economy” funded by AHRC Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC) of Nesta, UK.

Before her J.S.D, Xiaoren practiced IP law at a law firm in China for five years. Her business covered counseling on trademark and copyright registrations, infringements, counterfeiting, and designing IP strategies for international companies.

Center Affiliation: Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy Research Project: Should We Worry about Color Depletion? — An Empirical Study of USPTO Single Color Trademark Registrations

Academic Year 2019-2020

Gilad Abiri Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Israel

Gilad Abiri is a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Center of Law and Philosophy. 

Prior to joining NYU, Gilad was a JSD candidate at Yale Law School, where he was a Schell Human Rights fellow and a junior fellow at the Initiative on Religion, Society and Politics. Gilad also holds an LLM degree from Tel Aviv Faculty of Law, and is a graduate of Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students at Tel Aviv University. 

Gilad works in the areas of constitutional and political theory and comparative constitutional law, with a focus on law and religion. His current research focuses on the role national identity plays in shaping the relationship between liberal states and religious groups. 

Center Affiliation: Center for Law and Philosophy Research Project: Who is Sovereign? On Religion and Nationalism in Constitutional Law

Henok Birhanu Asmelash Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Ethiopia

Henok Birhanu Asmelash is a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law. His current research focuses on the role of international law and its institutions in the transition towards a sustainable energy future.

Prior to joining NYU, Henok was a Research Fellow within the International Law and Dispute Resolution Department of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg. He has also worked with Professor Anne Van Aaken at the University of St. Gallen as a Marie Curie Fellow and held visiting research positions at the University of Barcelona and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law in Heidelberg. Henok has consulted the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) on the regulation of energy transition subsidy policies.

Henok holds a Ph.D. in International Law and Economics from Bocconi University (Milan) and LL.M. degrees in International Economic Law and Policy from the University of Barcelona and in Business Law from Addis Ababa University.

Center Affiliation: Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law Research Project: International Law and Sustainable Energy Transition

Amanda Byer Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Grenada

Amanda Byer is a post-doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Frank J Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law.   Her research interests include environmental law, cultural heritage law, cultural geography, legal anthropology and spatial justice.

Amanda was awarded a doctoral scholarship from Leiden University, where she examined the role of landscape (as captured in environmental, cultural heritage and planning laws) in facilitating spatial justice and sustainable development for the English-speaking islands of the Lesser Antilles.   Amanda also holds an LLM in Environmental Law and Policy (distinction) from University College London and an MSc (distinction) in Environmental and Natural Resource Management from the University of the West Indies.

Amanda is currently researching the implementation of environmental procedural rights in international environmental law, with emphasis on the capacity of Caribbean small island states to implement the recently adopted Escazu Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Center Affiliation: Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law Research Project: Building Legal Institutions for Climate-Resilient Development in Small Island Developing States: An Analysis of Environmental Procedural Rights in the International Legal Framework

Dhanay Cadillo Chandler Global Research Fellow Venezuela

Dhanay Cadillo Chandler is a Global Research Fellow, affiliated to NYU’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy.  Her ongoing research addresses the need to re-evaluate the current incentives to prompt pharmaceutical innovation while at the same time regulating new health technologies.

In her current position at the Faculty of Law – University of Turku, she collaborates with the Academy of Finland funded project Constitutional Hedges of Intellectual Property (CONST-IP), where she has focused on the intersection and overlap of patents and other regulatory incentives hedging intellectual property rights. Findings from this research have been presented at international workshops at the University of Oxford, Hanken School of Economics, and McGeorge School of Law. Her research builds on previous findings of her doctoral dissertation and subsequent research. She has been an active member of the Faculty of Law in Turku, where she has created and implemented courses at master’s and PhD level. Dhanay has comprehensive teaching experience in Finland and abroad. Additionally,her publications and research interests include human rights, corporate social responsibility, comparative international intellectual property rights, international trade and international transactions.

Dhanay was appointed as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Turku Institute of Advanced Studies (TIAS) during the academic term 2018-2019. She is a lawyer graduated from MonteÁvila University. She received her Ph.D in 2014 from Hanken School of Economics and also holds a Master in Foreign Trade from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2006.

Center Affiliation: Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy Research Project: Regulating Incentives for New Health Technologies

Francesco Ducci Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Italy

Francesco Ducci is a post-doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with NYU’s Center for Law, Economics, and Organization. His research interests include antitrust/competition policy, economic and social regulation, and international trade law.

Francesco holds a JD from the University of Bologna, where he was awarded a merit-based scholarship as a visiting student at King’s College London. Francesco also holds an LLM and an SJD from the University of Toronto, where he was a John Stransman Fellow in Law and Economics,a Graduate Fellow at the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, and a Junior Fellow at Massey College.

During his doctoral research, Francesco evaluated the applicability of the natural monopoly framework to digital platform markets on the basis of three case studies: horizontal search engines, ride-hailing platforms, and e-commerce marketplaces. His work has been published in leading international antitrust and law economics journals, including the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, the Antitrust Bulletin, and the European Journal of Law and Economics.

Center Affiliation: Center for Law, Economics, and Organization Research Project:  Designing and Implementing Regulatory Instruments in Natural Monopoly Platform Markets

Paula Fernandez-Wulff Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Spain

Paula Fernandez-Wulff is a transdisciplinary legal scholar and Global Fellow at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. Her research focuses on the municipal aspects of critical approaches to socioeconomic rights and the politics of food and agriculture. Prior to NYU, she was a Fulbright-Schuman Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation and gained her Ph.D. at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Human Rights, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain, Belgium), where she worked under the supervision of the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter.

In addition to Fulbright, Paula has been the recipient of several other grants and fellowships including from the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research, United Nations University, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN, European Commission, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). She has lectured on human rights, hunger and global governance, and sustainability at Harvard Law, SciencesPo, and UCLouvain, and is part of the Editorial Board of the bilingual European Journal of Human Rights .

Paula holds an M.Sc. in Environmental Governance from United Nations University (UNU-IAS, Tokyo), where her research, conducted while working at the FAO, focused on agrobiodiversity protection policies and food governance frameworks in Latin America.

Prior to pursuing graduate studies, Paula began her legal career with one of the leading global law firms, later shifting to policy research with one of Spain’s leading economic policy think tanks. She holds a double degree in Spanish and French law at Universities Complutense and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Center Affiliation: Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Research Project: Beyond Minimum Protection: The New Struggle for the Localization of Social Rights

Werner Haslehner  (Spring) Global Research Fellow Luxembourg

Werner Haslehner is Professor of Law and holder of the ATOZ Chair for European and International Taxation at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, University of Luxembourg, where is also the Director of the LLM Program in EU and International Tax Law.

Holding master degrees in law, economics and business and a PhD in international tax law, he joined University of Luxembourg as associate professor in 2013 following full-time academic positions in Austria at JKU Linz and at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, and was appointed to the Chair in 2015. He was a visiting professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2018 and at the University of Turin in 2019.

His research interests cover all aspects of international taxation, including the impact of EU law, and tax policy. At NYU, where he is affiliated with the Graduate Tax Program, Werner will undertake research into the meaning of the concept of value creation and its relationship to allocation of taxing rights between countries, in particular in a context of increasingly digitalized economic activity. This research project, which is carried out in collaboration with the European Association of Tax Law Professors, is closely linked to ongoing efforts to overhaul the international tax system currently under way at the G20 and the OECD.

Center Affiliation: Graduate Tax Program Research Project: Taxation and Value Creation

Francesca Iurlaro Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Italy

Francesca Iurlaro holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute in Florence (2018) and she is currently a Research Fellow of the University of Milan, Italy. She graduated in the history of philosophy (University of Macerata, 2014) and has an LLM in Comparative, European and International Laws (European University Institute, 2015). For her PhD thesis, she worked on a history of the concept of customary international law in the natural law and ius gentium tradition from Francisco de Vitoria to Emer de Vattel. She is now turning her dissertation into a book for publication, titled “ The Invention of Custom. Natural Law and the Law of Nations, 1550-1750 ”. Its seeks to provide an asnwer to the question of when and how the concept of customary international law originated in European debates on natural law and law of nations, by arguing that this tradition provides us with a solid conceptual framework to contextualize and understand the “problematic” of custom”, i.e. the question concerning the normative content of CIL. Natural law, in fact, provides jurists with an imaginary reserve of argumentations and narratives, through which jurists “invent” customary rules applicable to their present situation. Over time, these arguments progressively and cumulatively crystallize into a notion of CIL as coincident with European cultural history. They become the fabric itself of CIL, the normative validity of which lies in the fact that it enshrines cultural values recognized by the community of European states.

Her research interests include international legal thought, history of political thought, history and reception of natural law theories, law and literature, food ethics, and animal rights. In 2012 she was awarded the Alberico Gentili Prize for her Italian translation of and introduction to Alberico Gentili’s Lectionis Virgilianae Variae Liber ad Robertum filium , a less-known commentary of Vergil’s Eclogues published by the famous jurist in 1603.

At NYU, she will work on a project titled “Conscience or Interest of States? The Birth of Opinio Juris as a Constitutive Element of Customary International Law (CIL)” which constitutes a further expansion of the topic addressed in her thesis. She will focus on the contribution of a neglected figure in the history of international law, that of the German jurist Rudolf von Jhering (1818-1892).

Center Affiliation: Institute for International Law and Justice Research Project: Conscience or Interest of States? The Birth of  Opinio Juris  as a Constitutive Element of Customary International Law (CIL)

Maria Lillà Montagnani Global Research Fellow Italy

Maria Lillà Montagnani is associate professor of commercial law at Bocconi University in Milan, where she teaches and research in the field of Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology Law, and acts as Director of the ASK research center.

She has been visiting professor at Peking University School of Transnational law and Haifa School of Law, faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center of Harvard University and scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute in Munich. She holds a PhD in Competition Law from the University of Perugia and an LL.M in IP law (Queen Mary University of London).

Lillà has widely published in the field of IP and technology in national and international journals and prestigious book series; she is also on the editorial board of several law journals and acts as an expert with the European Commission.

Beside IP law, Lillà is currently interested in the legal issues that surround the digital emerging technologies, in particular autonomous systems and decision-making. Specifically, her research at NYU will focus on the effectiveness of EU and US liability regimes in addressing damages generated in the context of the use of emerging digital technologies and how liability should be allocated to foster their development and adoption in different sectors without harming fundamental rights.

Center Affiliation: Information Law Institute Research Project: Liability and Emerging Digital Technologies: an EU and US Perspective

Florian Möslein  (Fall) Global Research Fellow Germany

Florian Möslein is Director of the Institute for Law and Regulation of Digitalisation ( www.irdi.institute ) and Professor of Law at the Philipps-University Marburg, where he teaches Contract Law, Company Law and Capital Markets Law. He previously held academic positions at the Universities of Bremen, St. Gallen, and Berlin, and visiting fellowships in the US (Stanford Law School and UC Berkeley School of Law), Australia (University of Sydney), Italy (Florence, European University Institute), Spain (CEU San Pablo, Madrid) and Denmark (Aarhus).

Having graduated from the Faculty of Law in Munich, he also holds academic degrees from the University of Paris-Assas (licence en droit) and London (LL.M. in International Business Law). Florian Möslein published three monographs and over 80 articles and book contributions, and he has edited seven books. He is member of the European Law Institute Digital Law SIG and associate member of the Munich Centre on Governance.

His current research focus is on regulatory theory, corporate sustainability and the legal challenges of the digital age. Inter alia, he investigates the regulation of blockchain and artificial intelligence in capital markets and corporate governance. His research also concerns the regulation of business in the broader context of sustainability and social entrepreneurship, in particular with respect to corporate disclosure and the labelling of financial products.

Center Affiliation: Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship Research Project: Disclosing Corporate Goodness - Comparative and Functional Perspectives on Reporting and Certification Regimes

Takayuki Nagato  Global Research Fellow Japan

Takayuki Nagato has been an Associate Professor of Tax Law at Gakushuin University, Japan since 2015. He studied at Harvard Law School as a Fulbright Research Scholar in 2018-2019. Before joining Gakushuin University, he was a Research Associate at the University of Tokyo.

His primary academic interest is in the interdisciplinary research between tax law and other business law fields including corporate law, bankruptcy law, and intellectual property law. His monograph “Tax and Corporate Bankruptcy,” in which he conducted a comparative and economic analysis of the corporate bankruptcy taxation in the US and Japan was awarded the Japan Institute of Business Law Prize and the Institute of Tax Research and Literature Prize in 2017. As a Global Research Fellow, he aims to analyze the relationship between tax law and intellectual property law in the globalized economy.  

He received J.D (2012) and LL.B (2010) from the University of Tokyo. He passed the bar exam in Japan (2012).

Center Affiliation: Graduate Tax Program Research Project: The Case for Global Lower Rate Minimum Tax on Intangible Income

Jane M Rooney  (Spring) Global Research Fellow  UK

Dr Jane M Rooney is a Lecturer in Law at Bristol University. Her research interests lie in the extraterritorial application of human rights, human rights litigation in global governance, critical constitutionalism, and human rights protection in the context of devolution in the UK. She has published in these areas in leading academic publications including the Modern Law Review , Public Law , Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Comparative Constitutional Law , and Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly . She is book review editor of European Human Rights Law Review .

Dr Rooney facilitates student projects with human rights organisations in the Human Rights Implementation Centre at Bristol Law School and has actively engaged with UK parliamentary committees on issues relating to UK military operations abroad and abortion reform in Northern Ireland.

Her research at NYU develops a new normative frame for the extraterritorial application of human rights. Legitimacy concerns regarding the expansion of extraterritoriality are challenged by acknowledging the significant democratic function of human rights adjudication for extraterritorial applicants. Human rights adjudication enables extraterritorial victims to participate in the law-making process, facilitates potential disempowerment and helps identify political and legal relationships that necessitate processes of good governance. Challenges and limitations arising from the extraterritorial application of human rights are investigated through applying the unique normative frame to three case studies: corporate environmental harm, the Mexico City Policy (the Global Gag Rule) and targeted killing.

Center Affiliation: Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Research Project: Human Rights and Extraterritorial Corporate Liability

Eytan Tepper  (Spring) Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Israel

Eytan Tepper is a post-doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Institute for International Law and Justice .  His research project at NYU is part of his research agenda on space governance and it builds on his previous research conducted at McGill University’s Institute of Air and Space Law.

The institutions and treaties at the core of space governance are Cold War remnants in dire need of reconceptualization and modern theoretical underpinnings. Dr. Tepper’s research at McGill analyzed the architecture of space governance using international relations and political economy theories. It demonstrated that space governance is on track to become polycentric, as multiple, issue-specific, governance centers led by stakeholders and experts emerge to fill the gap left by the gridlock at the main multilateral institutions. His research at NYU will take the next step and focus on one such emerging governance center.

The research at NYU will study a case of an issue-areas in global affairs in which there is scarce multilateral regulation and instead effective rules are made by the combination of States’ unilateral actions and private ordering, almost skipping multilateralism. The result, what Dr. Tepper calls ‘global governance without multilateralism’, raises questions on the place of such a governance system within international law and the availability of standards for such a system. The case study for this research is the governance of space resources and the mining thereof. The regulation and governance of this issue-area is emerging as a combination of national laws that recognize the right to mine and private ordering of the operation of mining and further utilization of the resources. The research will explore whether global administrative law (GAL) and the ‘law of global governance’ set standards for such governance systems and by that both constrain and legitimize them.

Dr. Tepper’s academic education is multidisciplinary. Prior to his doctoral studies at McGill University’s Faculty of Law he earned a policy-oriented doctorate from China University of Political Science and Law focused on Chinese space policy, a master’s degree in law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a double bachelor’s degree in law and economics from Tel Aviv University.

Prior to his return to academe, Dr. Tepper’s career spanned the private and public sectors, notably working for the Bank of Israel and the Israeli Foreign Trade Administration resolving issues related to international trade and cooperation. He reported directly to the highest ranks of public administration, including the Minister of the Economy and Industry and the Parliament’s Finance Committee. He led a formal inquiry delegation to China under the WTO rules and co-authored the feasibility study on a China–Israel Free Trade Area Agreement. Dr. Tepper also worked in the private sector, notably consulting international corporations on their legal affairs in Israel, including Fortune 500 companies (e.g. Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck, Eli Lilly). He is former Vice-Chairman of the Israeli Bar Association's Economic Forum. He brings his experience in senior level administration to his academic work seeking to identify and expand cutting-edge theory that withstands real-world constraints.

Center Affiliation: Institute for International Law and Justice Research Project: Between Markets and States: The Role of University-Led Forums in Global Governance and the Application of Global Administrative Law

Tleuzhan is a Post-Doctoral Fellow, affiliated with the NYU Institute for International Law and Justice. She recently obtained her doctoral degree at the Law Department of the European University Institute in Florence. She also holds LL.M in International Law (with distinction) from the University of Edinburgh and LL.B (with Honours) from Karaganda State University (Kazakhstan). Previously, Tleuzhan was a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and at the GlobalTrust project at the University of Tel Aviv.

Tleuzhan taught public international law and human rights law at the University of Passau and the University of Florence. In addition, she served as an assistant editor of the European Journal of International Law and interned at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. Her awards include scholarships from the Kazakh Ministry of Education and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as visiting research grants from the Max Planck Society and the European Research Council.

Tleuzhan’s main research interests lie in the field of public international law, in particular, international institutional law, international legal theory and international human rights law. Her doctoral dissertation addresses individual responsibility of states for their voting behavior and other instances of participation in the decision-making process in international organizations. During her fellowship at NYU, Tleuzhan will focus on converting her dissertation into a monograph.

Center Affiliation: Institute for International Law and Justice Research Project: Responsibility of States for Their Participation in the Decision-making Process in International Organisations

2018-2019 Academic Year

Dr. Mary Beloff is Professor of Law at the University of Buenos Aires where she became the first woman to hold a Chair in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure in 2013. She regularly teaches courses and seminars on theory of punishment and human rights, criminology, gender and criminal justice, and child rights and juvenile justice. As visiting professor in different Latin-American Universities, Prof. Beloff was delegated with the responsibilities of providing continuing education to judges, prosecutors, public defenders and NGOs’ members for years; and as a legal advisor on criminal justice and human rights matters to various Latin American governments and international organizations (UNICEF, IDB, UNOPS, ILANUD, OAS, UNDP), she has been involved in the process of adopting international human rights law at the domestic level through legal and institutional reforms all over the region. Prof. Beloff is responsible for drafting many of the modern Latin-American legislations on child protection and juvenile justice, as well as adversarial criminal procedure codes in several countries.

Her research at NYU will focus on the justification of punishment in international human rights law.

Center Affiliation: Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Research Project: The Multiple Meanings of Criminal Punishment in International Human Rights Law 

Gina J. Choi is a Global Fellow affiliated with the Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law of NYU.  Her current research is focused on the institutional design for energy and climate change policies at global, regional, national, and sub-national levels and international trade law including issues concerning environment, climate change, and intellectual property. 

Gina recently co-authored the South Korea chapter in Oxford Handbook on Comparative Environmental Law which is forthcoming in 2018.  Prior to academia, she was a partner at the regulatory affairs group of a prestigious law firm based in Seoul and advised multinational companies on complex cross-border regulatory disputes and compliance issues.  She also served as guest lecturer at several institutions in South Korea including Seoul National University School of Law, Korea University School of Law, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and Judicial Research and Training Institute operated by Korean Supreme Court. 

She received her LL.B. from Seoul National University School of Law with honors, her LL.M. from NYU School of Law, and her J.S.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.

Center Affiliation: Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law Research Project: Connecting the Dots:  Institutional Design for Linking Carbon Markets

Marco Dell’Erba is a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with NYU’s Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance and the Center for Financial Institutions. His primary research interests are in securities law, corporate law, international banking and financial regulation.

He held research positions at the Groningen Center for Financial European Financial Services (University of Groningen, Netherlands), teaching in the course of European law; the Financial Regulation Laboratory of Excellence (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris), where he currently Research Associate; the National University of Singapore (Singapore); and at the London School of Economics (UK) as a Research Assistant in the Department of law during his PhD. He practiced law in the departments of Banking & Finance and Litigation & Dispute Resolutions at Clifford Chance LLP (Rome) and as an independent consultant (Paris).

Marco Dell’Erba holds a JD summa cum laude from the University of Rome La Sapienza and is a fellow of the Lamaro Pozzani University College of Excellence (Rome) where he was awarded a five year full merit-based scholarhip. He obtained his LL.M in Corporation Law at the New York University School of Law, where he was Global Hauser Scholar and served as Graduate Editor in the NYU Journal of Law & Business. He holds a PhD in private law and financial regulation from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and a PhD in corporate and securities law from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He also holds an LL.M in Corporation Law from New York University School of Law, where he was Global Hauser Scholar and served as Graduate Editor in the NYU Journal of Law & Business.

His current research investigates the regulation of blockchain in capital markets and corporate governance. It explores the theoretical issues related to the role of definitions in designing the regulatory response in these areas. It also assess the different types of intervention (private and public regulation), the enforcement of securities authorities in capital markets and their initiatives related to the corporate governance of public companies.

Center Affiliation: Center for Financial Institutions , Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance Research Project:  Blockchain in financial law and corporate governance:  Legal definitions, Regulatory response

Matthew S. Erie is an Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies and Associate Research Fellow of the Socio-Legal Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. Professor Erie’s interdisciplinary work stimulates conversations between law and anthropology to study the procedural aspects of domestic and cross-border commercial dispute resolution. In particular, he investigates the emergence and reconciliation of conflicts of law and normative pluralism in the course of increasing intersections of non-liberal values and Anglo-American common law.

His current research, funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant, examines the changing landscape of international commercial dispute resolution against the backdrop of protectionist movements in the U.S., UK, and Europe and increasing Chinese outbound investment. One specific focus is “legal hubs,” sub-national jurisdictions that develop and implement their own procedural law for cross-border commercial dispute resolution. Legal hubs, including those in London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai, invite re-evaluation and sharpening of the orthodox understanding of international private law, including, in particular, concepts such as governing law, jurisdiction and enforcement. His article “Anticorruption as Transnational Law: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, PRC Law, and Party Rules,” forthcoming in the American Journal of Comparative Law, marks an initial foray into this project. During his time at NYU Law School, Professor Erie will further develop the project into a law review article.

His current project builds on his previous work on disputing and plural normative systems in China. His book China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law (Cambridge University Press, 2016), based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in northwest China, is the first ethnography of Islamic law in China with a focus on the substantive and procedural conflicts between shari’a and Chinese state law. China and Islam earned a 2017 Asian Law and Society Association Distinguished Book Award Honorable Mention and was listed as one of the “Books of the Year 2017” by both the Times Literary Supplement and Times Higher Education. His articles on dispute resolution, property rights, and the legal profession have appeared in law reviews and peer-review journals including the Hong Kong Law Journal, Journal of Legal Education, Law and Social Inquiry, Islamic Law and Society, Journal of Law and Religion, and American Ethnologist.

Professor Erie previously held academic positions at Princeton University, NYU Law School, and the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU, and was a visiting scholar at the National University Singapore Law Faculty. He practiced law in the New York and Beijing offices of Paul Hastings LLP where he focused on corporate real estate transactions and white-collar investigations (e.g., FCPA). He holds degrees from Cornell University (Ph.D., Anthropology), University of Pennsylvania (J.D.), Tsinghua University Law School (LL.M.), and Dartmouth College (B.A). Professor Erie is a member of the New York Bar, the American Society of International Law, the Law and Society Association, the Society of International Economic Law, and the Young International Council for Commercial Arbitration.

Center Affiliation: Institute for International Law and Justice Research Project: Legal Hubs: The Emergent Landscape of International Commercial Dispute Resolution

A Post-Doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with NYU’s Center for Law & Philosophy, David Frydrych’s primary research interests are in legal philosophy and private law. David read for a DPhil (PhD) in Law at the University of Oxford (Somerville College). He also earned a BA (Honors) with Distinction and LLM from the University of Toronto, and a JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Previously, David was a postdoctoral fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law. He has taught law and jurisprudence courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

David’s doctoral research concerned analytic models and theories of rights (e.g., Wesley Hohfeld’s schema of jural relations). His scholarship, which focuses mostly on the “nature” of rights, has appeared in several peer-reviewed journals of some repute. Continuing in that vein, his research at NYU will explore the use and abuse of secondary and tertiary rights. David is also admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Center Affiliation: Center for Law and Philosophy Research Project: Rights Exercise & Enforcement 

Lingyun Gao is Professor of Law in Fudan University School of Law, Shanghai, China. Prof. Gao earned a J.D. from Willamette University College of Law, an LL.M. in Comparative Law from the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, and an LL.B. in International Law from East China University of Political Science & Law.

Prof. Gao has been a visiting scholar or professor at Ghent University (Belgium), University of Michigan, Case Western Reserve University, Harvard Law School, University of California – Irvine, New York University, Tulane University, St. John’s University, East Finland University, and Lapland University (Finland). Prof. Gao is a member of Oregon State Bar and New York State Bar Associations and China Law Society (Shanghai Chapter).

Her research, teaching, and publication areas include comparative civil and commercial law, especially on how to regulate and develop commercial trusts and how to promote private trusts in China.

Center Affiliation: US-Asia Law Institute Research Project: Regulating Trust Relationship Through China’s Civil Code-Choice of Approaches in Comparison with US Trust Law

Dr Sabine Gless, Dr. iur. (Bonn, Germany), Dr. iur. habil (Münster, Germany), is Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Basel in Switzerland where she holds a Chair for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. Her research interests include international criminal law, evidence law and the impact of digitalization on criminal justice. Dr. Gless’ work covers issues of criminal liability for autonomous cars, predictive policing and protection of crypto-currencies under criminal law.

Her research at NYU will focus on potential limitations on the use of data generated by technologies that monitor biometric data in “smart traffic”. The handling of data generated by highly automated driving cars, for instance, provides an excellent example of new legal problems for fact-finding in criminal proceedings that can only be understood with a specialized technical background, yet affect the broader public. Solutions will need new legal approaches, particularly with regard to balancing individual and public interests in criminal law and procedure.

Dr. Gless is on the editorial board of several law journals and acts as an expert with the European Commission as well as with Swiss government authorities. She served as a member of the Swiss Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Review Board of Legal Studies of the German Research Association.  

Center Affiliation: Information Law Institute Research Project: Robots Monitoring Humans – Digital Shifts in the Administration of Criminal Justice

David Goddard is a leading New Zealand barrister.  He specialises in appellate advocacy, appearing frequently in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2003.

David also has a longstanding involvement in law reform in New Zealand and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, advising ministers, government agencies and Parliamentary committees on a wide range of policy issues. He has represented New Zealand in bilateral and multilateral treaty negotiations. David has a particular interest in cross-border legal issues, and has been chairing a series of Special Commission meetings at the Hague Conference on Private International Law, working towards a new multilateral treaty on recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. 

David’s current research focuses on legal design: the many different ways in which written laws can be structured; the implications of those choices for the practical operation and effectiveness of those laws; and the significance for those choices of the institutional setting within which those laws are intended to operate.

Center Affiliation: Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law Research Project: The Law-Making Process:  Legal Design

Patryk I. Labuda received his Ph.D. in international law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva in February 2018. He is a visiting lecturer at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.

Patryk's research lies at the intersection of international law, international relations and transitional justice. His post-doctoral research will examine the scope and nature of the evolving protection of civilians norm in United Nations peacekeeping. His Ph.D. on ‘The Complementarity Turn in International Criminal Justice’ explored how various international criminal tribunals influence(d) the accountability policies of governmental actors in conflict-affected countries. His teaching interests include international criminal law, public international law, transitional justice and empirical methods.

Patryk has several years of work experience in human rights, security sector reform and transitional justice. Prior to joining NYU, he was a legal reform advisor to the European Union’s border assistance mission in Libya. At the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, Patryk trained and advised officials from the Sudanese Ministry of Justice, the Bar Union and parliamentarians from South Sudan. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Patryk worked on transitional justice and rule of law reform with the Ministry of Justice, Parliament and the National Police. Patryk is a member of the UN Security Council Roster of Experts.

Center Affiliation: Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Research Project: Capture or Kill? The Protection of Civilians and the Use of (Non-Lethal) Force in United Nations Peacekeeping

Dr Inbar Levy completed her DPhil in Law at University College, Oxford, where she was awarded the Modern Law Review Doctoral Scholarship and the Oxford Faculty of Law Scholarship. Her doctoral project, titled 'Behavioural Analysis of Civil Procedure Rules', written under the supervision of Professor Adrian Zuckerman, investigated the implications of findings derived from empirical behavioural psychology for legal reasoning and practice.

Inbar had been awarded a Joint Law and Psychology LLB with Magna Cum Laude honours and subsequently an LLM with similar honours from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before going to Oxford, She served as a legal advising officer in the Military Advocate General unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. Inbar has previously held a Visiting Research Fellow position at Columbia Law School in the City of New York and a Visiting Researcher position at Harvard Law School.

Inbar joined Melbourne Law School as a Lecturer in 2015, after a short period as a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the Study of Rationality and the Sacher Institute in Jerusalem. Her primary research areas are procedural justice and empirical legal research, with a particular interest in behaviour and decision-making, access to justice and institutional design.

Center Affiliation: Center on Civil Justice Research Project: Judicial Policy, Public Perception and the Science of Bias

Soterios Loizou completed undergraduate and postgraduate legal studies at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, NYU School of Law, the Institute of International Commercial Law (IICL), and Harvard Law School. He is currently finalizing his PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge, where he conducted research on international sales law, conflict-of-laws, and comparative law issues. His research interests include also international litigation & arbitration and maritime law.

Soterios has taught international commercial law and international arbitration at King’s College London, where he was nominated for a Teaching Excellence Award in the categories “Rising Star” and “Education Experience.”

For his research, Soterios has been awarded numerous awards and prizes, including the prestigious Colin B. Picker Prize at the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) Young Comparativists Committee (YCC) Fifth Annual Global Conference (2016), the first prize at the international competition organized in conjunction with the MU Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution-American Society of International Law (ASIL), Dispute Resolution Group works-in-progress conference (2017), and the Trandafir International Business Writing Competition (2017).

As Post-Doctoral Global Fellow, affiliated with the Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law, he will explore the legal framework of international business transactions in the USA.

Center Affiliation: Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law  Research Project: UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG, 1980): 40 Years of Going Americano

Hadassa Noorda studied law and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and Columbia University, and obtained her PhD degree from the University of Amsterdam. As part of her PhD project, she was a visiting researcher at Georgetown, UC Berkeley, and the EUI. In 2015-2016, she was a Dworkin Balzan Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU’s Center for Law and Philosophy under the supervision of Jeremy Waldron.

Dr. Noorda works in the area of philosophy of law and, primarily, philosophy of criminal law and of the laws of war. Her work has appeared in international refereed journals and she has spoken at a number of conferences and workshops. Dr. Noorda has taught courses at the bachelor and master level both at law schools and philosophy departments at the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University. She is on the editorial board of The Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy.

Her current research aims to provide tools to secure the rule of law in times where we continue to be plagued by terrorism. Professor Jeremy Waldron and Professor Liam Murphy are her faculty co-sponsors.

Center Affiliation: Center for Law and Philosophy Research Project: The Rule of Law in Times of Terrorism

Stefano Osella, LLM (Turin; EUI), MJur (Oxon), is a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow specialising in queer legal theory. During his stay at NYU, Stefano will concentrate on the interrelations between redistribution and identity recognition for gender diverse people, with a close eye on international law. His research explores the redistributive potentials of queer legal theory and discusses how the legal construction of discrete gender identities may be an obstacle to the full socio-economic inclusion of gender diverse people.

Primarily an academic, Stefano carries out his research in the field of LGBTI+ rights and queer legal theory, fields in which he authored and co-authored several publications. Moreover, convinced of the importance of being a socially involved academic, Stefano is a member of the Scientific Committee of Rete Lenford – Avvocatura per i Diritti LGBTI, a leading Italian organisation of lawyers and professionals committed to the protection of LGBTI fundamental rights. Also, he actively cooperates with Collettivo Intersexioni, a pioneering group devoted to foster the intersectional protection of minority, especially intersex and trans, rights.

As for his legal education, Stefano is a PhD researcher at the Law Department of the European University Institute, Florence, where he works under the supervision of Prof. Ruth Rubio-Marín. His doctoral research provides a doctrinal and philosophical analysis of the constitutional status of the gender binary in Europe, as evolving under the push of human rights law. Previously, Stefano received a bachelor of laws, as well as a master of laws, from the University of Turin, Italy (2008; 2010), a Magister Juris from University of Oxford (2014), and an LLM from the European University Institute (2015).

Center Affiliation: Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Research Project: Is There a Right to Gender Recognition?

Elena Pribytkova graduated from St. Petersburg State University with a First Class degree in Law and received a Candidate of Legal Sciences degree from the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is a J.S.D. candidate at Columbia Law School and a Habilitation candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel.

Elena’s main areas of expertise are human rights law, legal and political philosophy, public international law, comparative public law, law and sustainable development, and comparative history of legal and political ideas. She worked a lot in individual and collective multidisciplinary research projects on theories of justice, law and morality, human dignity, human rights, and in particular socio-economic rights, and has written more than fifty papers and books in English, German, French, and Russian. Her J.S.D. research explores global obligations of multiple actors corresponding to basic socio-economic rights and pays special attention to global obligations presupposed by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development . Her book project A Decent Social Minimum in the Language of Human Rights focuses on a set of territorial human rights guarantees aimed at protecting persons from extreme poverty and enabling them to lead a decent life.

Elena held various research and teaching appointments at University of Basel, Radboud University Nijmegen, Ruhr-University Bochum, Institute of State and Law of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow University for Industry and Finance “Synergy”, and Columbia Law School. She was also a visiting fellow at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Heidelberg University, and Oxford University. She organized the first Human Rights Clinic at the University of Basel with a focus on the human rights guarantees of poverty reduction and supervised collaborative human rights projects with local and international NGOs. As an intern with the Rule of Law Unit in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the UN, she was involved in work on the draft of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and provided suggestions on the interrelation between human rights, the rule of law, and development.

As a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, Elena will analyze extraterritorial obligations of states, international organizations and non-state actors in the area of socio-economic rights. Her multidisciplinary project will emphasize the interrelation between philosophical discourse, normative legal order, and legal practice and demonstrate how contemporary theories of global justice can contribute to justifying, conceptualizing, allocating and implementing extraterritorial obligations.

Center Affiliation: Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Research Project: Towards a World of Accountability: Extraterritorial Obligations in the Area of Socio-Economic Rights from Philosophical, Legal and Practical Perspectives

Dr. Francisco Saffie is currently assistant professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Faculty of Law, were he teaches at undergraduate and post-graduate programs. From 2012 until 2016 he was the Academic Director of the Master in Taxation at the same university. From 2014 until 2016, while on academic leave, he worked as tax policy advisor for the Chilean Ministry of Finance.

Dr. Saffie’s research focuses in legal theory, political theory, and tax law. His research focuses in the moral and political justification of the legal duty to pay taxes, with special concern on its institutional structure in local and global tax law. He is particularly interested in developing legal answers to tax avoidance.

He is a member of the Seminario en Latinoamérica de Teoría Constitucional (SELA), of the Chilean branch of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), and part of the research project “Tributación para la Equidad en Latinoamérica” organized by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), Colombia.

Dr. Saffie holds a PhD in Law from The University of Edinburgh. He obtained a Master in Taxation from the Faculty of Economics and Business at Universidad de Chile, and an LLB from the Law Faculty of the same university.

Center Affiliation: Center for Law and Philosophy Research Project: A Legal Philosophy of Tax Law

Gerry Simpson was appointed to a Chair in Public International Law at LSE in January 2016. He previously taught at the University of Melbourne (2007-2015), the Australian National University (1995-1998) and LSE (2000-2007) as well as holding visiting positions at Harvard Law School (1999) and the State University of Tbilisi where he was a Soros-funded Research Fellow and adviser to the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is the author of Great Powers and Outlaw States (Cambridge, 2004) and Law, War and Crime: War Crimes Trials and the Reinvention of International Law (Polity 2007), and co-editor (with Kevin Jon Heller) of Hidden Histories (Oxford, 2014) and (with Raimond Gaita) of Who’s Afraid of International Law? (Monash, 2016).

Gerry’s current research projects include an ARC-funded project on Cold War International Law (with Matt Craven, SOAS) and Sundhya Pahuja, (Melbourne) and a counter-history of International Criminal Justice. He is currently also writing about the literary life of international law; an exploratory essay – “The Sentimental Life of International Law” –  was published in The London Review of International Law.  A book of the same name will be published in 2019. He is an editor of The London Review of International Law and an occasional essayist and contributor for Arena Magazine.

Center Affiliation: Institute for International Law and Justice Research Project: Cold War International Law

Tleuzhan is a Ph.D. candidate at the Law Department of the European University Institute in Florence, expecting to obtain her doctoral degree in Fall 2018. She also holds LL.M in International Law (with distinction) from the University of Edinburgh and LL.B (with Honours) from Karaganda State University (Kazakhstan). Previously, Tleuzhan was a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (2018) and at the GlobalTrust project held at the University of Tel Aviv (2014).

Tleuzhan taught public international law and human rights law at the University of Passau and the University of Florence in 2015. In addition, she served as an assistant editor of the European Journal of International Law in 2014-2015 and interned at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva in 2014. Her awards include scholarships from the Kazakh Ministry of Education and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as visiting research grants from the Max Planck Society and the European Research Council.

Tleuzhan’s main research interests lie in the field of public international law, in particular, international institutional law, international legal theory and international human rights law. Her doctoral dissertation addresses individual responsibility of states for their voting behavior and other instances of participation in the decision-making process in international organizations. Tleuzhan’s post-doctoral project an NYU will build upon the core findings of her doctoral thesis and examine the value of legal argumentation in enhancing the legitimacy of decision-making process in international organizations.

Center Affiliation: Institute for International Law and Justice Research Project: Legal Argumentation and Legitimacy of International Organizations

2017-2018 Academic Year

Dr. Giulio Allevato is currently lecturer of Tax Law at Università Bocconi School of Management (SDA Bocconi) and adjunct professor of Tax Law at Università Bocconi Law School.

At Università Bocconi, Dr. Allevato regularly teaches at post-graduate programs such as the Master in Corporate Finance, the Executive MBA and the LLM in Law of Internet Technology. He is the coordinator of the SDA Bocconi Tax Policy Unit (Osservatorio Fiscale e Contabile – OFC) and the coordinator of several executive and custom education programs. He regularly conducts research and training projects with important national and multinational enterprises.

Dr. Allevato's research activities focus on international corporate taxation, regulatory taxation, financial taxation and the taxation of the digital economy. Recently, he has worked on four key topics: the implementation of cooperative tax compliance programs and the design and implementation of tax control frameworks, the evolution of the tax director's role, the anti-tax abuse policies, and the study of regulatory tax policies and their role in the rise of State sovereignty.

Dr. Allevato is the author of numerous articles in the field of taxation, which have been published by important journals, such as the Michigan Journal of International Law, and by prestigious publishers, such as Routledge.  

Dr. Allevato earned a PhD in International Law and Economics degree from Università Bocconi and the International Tax LL.M from the University of Michigan Law School.

Before joining the Università Bocconi faculty, he was Ernst Mach Scholar at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU).

He also practices as a certified tax attorney, assisting multinational enterprises in complex and multi-jurisdictional business transactions.

Center Affiliation:  Graduate Tax Program Research Project: The Relationship between Tax Sovereignty’s Regulatory Function and State Sovereignty: From the Rise of Nation States to Globalization

Severine Dusollier is Professor of Intellectual Property and Head of the Master in Innovation Law in the Law School of SciencesPo Paris. From 2006-2014, she was Professor at the University of Namur (Belgium), where she taught intellectual property, IT law, property, competition law and media law. From 2010 to 2014, she was the Director of the CRIDS (Research Centre in Information, Law and Society), gathering more than 40 researchers engaged in a wide area of technology-related issues, from sociology, philosophy, communication to law and economy. Recognised as an academic expert of copyright and IP, she has carried out research for the Belgian Government, WIPO, the Council of Europe, UNESCO, the European Commission and Parliament. She is the holder of an ERC (European Research Council) research Grant (2014-2019) on commons and inclusivity in property.

She has been a visiting Fellow or Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (2001), at the European University Institute of Florence (2005-2006), at the University of Versailles (2007), and at the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts of the University of Columbia (2011). She also teaches at the CEIPI (University of Strasbourg) and is a member of the Belgian Council of Intellectual Property. With other European professors, she has founded the European Copyright Society to voice the opinion of academics on copyright in the European Union. She is a Member of the Executive Board of ATRIP (International Association of Teachers and researchers in IP). Her current research relates to copyright, IP limitations and exceptions, European copyright and IT regulations, the notion of the author, contractual protection of authors and creators, the public domain and the commons.

Email : [email protected]

Center Affiliation:  Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy Research Project: Inclusivity in Property

Prior to joining NYU as a Post-Doctoral Fellow, Zhiyu Li received her JSD from the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as a teaching assistant for the Legal Research and Writing course.

Her primary research interests are in legislation and statutory interpretation, administrative law, judicial decision-making, and comparative law. Her scholarly work has appeared in U.S. and international journals, including the Washington International Law Journal and the Review of Law & Economics. Her co-authored article on the positive political theory of comparative administrative law received an honorable mention for the Colin B. Picker Prize, awarded by the American Society of Comparative Law. She is also a member of the P.R.C. bar.

Zhiyu is currently engaged in a project that describes and accounts for the diffusion of judicial innovation in Chinese courts. To elucidate the lawmaking function of the Chinese judiciary, she employs both qualitative methods, such as doctrinal analysis, case studies, and interviews, and quantitative methods, such as traditional surveys, and survey experiments. The fruits of this inquiry should be of interest to researchers who are seeking a theoretical understanding of the development of Chinese law and to practitioners who are trying to predict legal and regulatory trends in China.

Center Affiliation: US-Asia Law Institute Research Project:  Innovation through Interpretation:  How Judges Make Policy in China

Prof. Dr. Nicola Selvaggi is Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Director of the Research Center on preventive measures and organized crime (CeRPEC) at the Department of Law and Economics of the “Mediterranea” University of Reggio Calabria (Italy).

He has been Gastwissenschaftler at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law of Freiburg i. Br. and worked on numerous international research projects, collaborating with Italian and foreign Universities such as Paris “Sorbonne”, “Castilla-La Mancha” of Toledo, “Waseda” of Tokio and the Max Planck Institute.

Nicola Selvaggi has extensively carried out studies, enquiries and published books, articles and essays on criminal law, with a particular focus on the liability of corporations and economic crimes. He also devoted studies, lectures and essays in other relevant areas, such as international criminal law, antitrust sanctions, confiscation of crime proceeds, and organized crime, both from a domestic, European and international perspective.

Nicola Selvaggi is advisor to the Italian Senate Committee on Justice Affairs (since 2016) and has also been several times appointed as expert in meetings and intergovernmental working groups at UNODC (United Nations on Drugs and Organized Crime), OECD and the European Commission. Nicola Selvaggi is lawyer and consultant, with particular focus on white collar crime and corporate compliance.

Center Affiliation:  Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement Research Project: Closely-held Firms, Publicly-held Firms and the Criminal Law. Looking for a Rational Scope of Corporate “Criminal” Liability

Martin Senftleben is Professor of Intellectual Property and Director of the Kooijmans Institute for Law and Governance at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Of Counsel at Bird & Bird, The Hague. His activities focus on the reconciliation of private intellectual property rights with competing public interests of a social, cultural or economic nature. Current research topics concern flexible fair use copyright limitations, trademark law and the preservation of the public domain, the international debate on the seizure of counterfeit goods in transit, the EU copyright reform and the liability of online platforms for infringement.

Mr. Senftleben studied law at the University of Heidelberg. He worked as a researcher at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. In 2004, he was awarded a doctorate by the University of Amsterdam. From 2004 to 2007, he was a legal officer in the trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indications law division of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. Mr. Senftleben is a member of the Copyright Advisory Committee of the Dutch State. He provided advice to WIPO in several trademark and copyright projects. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Association littéraire et artistique internationale (ALAI) and the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property Law (ATRIP). As a guest lecturer, he provides courses at the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI), Strasbourg, the EBS University of Business and Law, Wiesbaden, the HANKEN School of Economics, Helsinki, the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) and the Universities of Vienna and Catania.

Center Affiliation:  Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy Research Project: Protecting Mickey Mouse and the Mona Lisa in Perpetuity? How to Prevent Trademark Rights From Impeding Cyclic Cultural Innovation

Amr Shalakany Senior Global Research Fellow Egypt

Center Affiliation:  Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Research Project: Law and Revolution Revisited

Paulina Starski is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg as well as a postdoctoral fellow at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. She holds degrees from Bucerius – LL.B. as well as Ph.D. (summa cum laude) ‒ and conducted a part of her law studies at the University of Sydney Law School as a grant recipient of the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). Her Ph.D. on the “Interfederal Administrative Act” (Mohr Siebeck, 2014) focuses on constitutional and administrative challenges of German federalism viewed from a comparative perspective and was funded inter alia by the Friedrich Naumann and the FAZIT Foundation. She passed her First and Second State Examination in law ‒ both with high distinction ‒ at the Hanseatic Higher Court of Appeals in Hamburg and was admitted to the bar in 2013. During her judicial clerkship (Referendariat) she worked at various courts in Hamburg (Civil and Criminal Court of Appeals, Administrative Court) and – amongst others – the law firm Freshfields in its Hamburg and New York office advising on a wide range of international disputes.

Her research project on the “Unwilling or Unable State as a Challenge to International Law” encompasses her postdoctoral thesis (Habilitation) and is funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. She has also been awarded a postdoctoral scholarship by the Daimler and Benz Foundation for her research activities. After her research stay at the NYU School of Law she will be a Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Sydney Law School and a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School within the Laureate Project in International Law “Civil War, Intervention and International Law” directed by Professor Anne Orford.

Her academic interests lie in the field of public international law, in particular, the regime on the use of force, international legal theory, the notion of state sovereignty, international human rights law, but also European law as well as German and comparative constitutional law (recently with a particular focus on Polish constitutional law). Paulina has widely published in these fields in various national and international law journals. Being passionate about teaching Paulina has lectured on a wide range of subjects within her research fields in Germany and abroad inter alia at the Bucerius Law School, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, University of Paderborn, University of Hamburg as well as Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile.

Paulina is a member of the Coordinating Committee of the European Society of International Law’s Interest Group on Peace and Security, of the Editorial Board of the Heidelberg Journal of International Law and the Advisory Board of the voelkerrechtsblog.de.

Center Affiliation:  Institute for International Law and Justice Research Project: The Unwilling or Unable State as a Challenge to International Law

Theodosia Stavroulaki is a funded PhD researcher at the Law Department of the European University Institute. Theodosia’s research lies in the intersection between health policy and economics, competition law and human development. Under the supervision of Professor Monti, Theodosia has explored the question of how and to what extent healthcare quality can be taken into account under EU competition law. In 2015 Theodosia spent several months at the London School of Economics as a visiting scholar, as a result of a research grant she secured from the European Commission and the European University Institute. During the same year, she also received a prestigious award from the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association in order to pursue competition policy research in the field of healthcare antitrust at Georgetown Law School, present her work at the Federal Trade Commission, and conduct interviews with numerous scholars and experts in her area of research. As a result of her research in the US, her peer review article entitled ‘Integrating healthcare quality concerns into the US hospital merger cases, A mission impossible?’ has been recently published in World Competition Law & Economics Review. In March 2016, Theodosia’s research article entitled ‘The notion of an undertaking in the healthcare sector according to the European Courts’ case law: to what extent is healthcare quality taken into account?’ also won a prize for the best paper in Law & Economics by the Greek Association of Law and Economics.

Theodosia holds three masters degrees: an LLM in Law and Economics (Utrecht University), an executive MSc in European Economic Studies (Athens University of Economics and Business) and an LL.M. in Comparative, European and International Laws (European University Institute). Before commencing her PhD at the European University Institute, Theodosia worked as an antitrust associate in a leading law firm in Greece in EU competition Law. In addition, in March of 2009, she interned at the Private Enforcement Unit of DG Competition of European Commission.

As a Fulbright Scholar at NYU Theodosia aims to examine how competition law and regulation should be applied in the Higher Education sector so that the multiple public policy objectives this sector aims to achieve are considered as a whole. Her research will answer this research question by examining the marketization of the Higher Education sector in the UK and in the US. Research Project: ‘The role of antitrust law and regulation in ensuring the public policy objectives of Higher Education: Some thoughts on the UK and US Higher Education Markets’.

Center Affiliation:  Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy Research Project: The Role of Antitrust Law and Regulation in Ensuring the Public Policy Objectives of Higher Education: Some Thoughts on the UK and US Higher Education Markets

Dr. Peter Szigeti will begin teaching at the Faculty of Law of the University of Alberta in July 2018, following appointments as a Global Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU Law (2017-2018), the Boulton Fellow at McGill University (2016-2016), and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (2015-2016).

Dr. Szigeti received his SJD from Harvard Law School in 2015. His dissertation, entitled “Text and Territory: Jurisdictional Conflict and Territorial Language in Law”, investigates the use of spatial terms in legal language, and the effects that such language has on the regulation of physical/geographical territory. Part of the dissertation is about to be published in the Texas International Law Journal, entitled “The Illusion of Territorial Jurisdiction”. He also holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (2008), a Master 2 recherche from Universite Paris I (2006), and a bachelor’s degree in Hungarian law from ELTE University, Budapest (2005).

During his Fellowship at NYU, Dr. Szigeti will work on examining the interactions between property law and environmental protection, and developing a more geographically situated conception of environmental law.

Center Affiliation:  Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law Research Project: Towards a Law of Biogeochemical Cycles

Prof. Dr. Hélène Tigroudja is Law Professor at Aix-Marseille University (France), Co-Director of the Law School’s Master Program of International Law, Director of the Summer School on Practice of Human Rights and Expert on reparations before the International Criminal Court. She is the co-author with Prof. Ludovic Hennebel of a treatise in international human rights law published in French (Pedone, Paris) in 2016.

Prof. Tigroudja has conducted research and taught in various universities such as Science Po Law School (Paris), Ecole Nationale de l’administration (Paris), Brussels University, Abomey-Calavi University (Cotonou, Benin), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Universidad Catolica de Buenos Aires and she has been a visiting professional at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. In 2014, she was appointed by The Hague Academy of International Law (The Netherlands) to co-lead the Center for International Research and Studies dedicated to 'Women’s Rights and Elimination of Discrimination’ and edited a volume on this issue with her colleague Prof. Dr. Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg (Brill Publishers, 2016).

Her focus in teaching and research ranges from international law, european law, international human rights law, international criminal law, and international migration law, with special focus on comparative approaches of regional and universal human rights mechanisms; States’ and International Organizations' immunities; States’ responsibility for wrongful acts; law of armed conflicts; domestic implementation of international legal obligations and EU’s fight against terrorism.

Since 2002, she has acted regularly as an expert for the Council of Europe (implementation of the ECHR; protection of Internally Displaced Persons; freedom of religion and protection of religious minorities; improvement of domestic judicial institutions; protection of migrants); the United Nations (UNODC programs on fight against terrorism) and the European Union (esp. on international humanitarian law and on domestic judicial system of States’ candidates to the integration to EU). Prof. Tigroudja is also Faculty Director of the Legal Clinic Aix Global Justice focusing on international human rights law.

Center Affiliation:  Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Research Project: Reparation before the International Criminal Court [Fixing the ICC Reparation Process?] 

Miloš Vec is a Professor of European Legal and Constitutional History at Vienna University and a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM, Vienna). He received his Habilitation for the book “Law and Standardization in the Industrial Revolution” in Legal History, Philosophy of Law, Theory of Law, and Civil Law from the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main in 2005.

His main research interests are the history of international law and multi-normativity. He is the co-editor of Transformations of Foreign Policy (OUP 2016), Paradoxes of Peace (OUP 2015), Constructing International Law – The Birth of a Discipline (V. Klostermann 2012) and has recently published Sources in the 19th Century European Tradition. The Myth of Positivism in the Oxford Handbook of the Sources of International Law (2017) and From the Congress of Vienna to the Paris Peace Treaties in the Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (2012).

Before his appointment at the University of Vienna in 2012, Miloš Vec worked at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt and taught at the Law Faculty there. He held seminars and taught classes in Legal History, Legal Philosophy, Family Law, Tort Law, Law of Obligations also at the Universities of Bonn, Hamburg, Konstanz, Lyon, Tübingen, and Vilnius.

His awards include: German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes); Otto Hahn Medal of Max-Planck-Society; Appointment as founding member of The Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, Walter Kalkhof-Rose Memorial Award of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz; Academy Award of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities,; Fellow to the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study, WiKo), Berlin; UNIVIE Teaching Award of Vienna University. Miloš Vec has been an associate member of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” at Frankfurt University since 2013.

Since 1989, Miloš Vec has also contributed to various publications as a free-lance journalist, particularly for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Center Affiliation:  Institute for International Law and Justice Research Project: Principles of International Order. The Science of the European Law of Nations, 1789 – 1914

Since 2011, Diego Werneck Arguelhes has been Professor of Law at the Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (FGV Direito Rio), where he had previously been assistant professor (2006-2011).

His research focuses on judicial politics, the comparative design of judicial institutions, and the relationship between constitutional change and judicial behavior. Mr. Arguelhes is a member of the  Seminario en Latinoamérica de Teoría Constitucional y Política  (SELA) and a regular contributor to the Brazilian press on issues of constitutional law and Supreme Court decision-making, having been one of the founding editors (2015-2016) of the blog   Supra: o Supremo Interpretado .

In January and February of 2016, Mr. Arguelhes was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law (Heidelberg, Germany). Before joining the Hauser Global Law program at NYU Law School in the Fall of 2017, he was a visiting fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School (Spring 2017).

Mr. Arguelhes holds an LL.B. and a M.A. (Public Law) from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), and LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from Yale Law School. 

Center Affiliation:  Center for Law, Economics, and Organization Research Project: The Open Court and its Enemies:  A Contingent Defense of Publicity in Judicial Deliberations

2016-2017 Academic Year

Susanne Augenhofer is a Professor of Law at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, holding the chair for Civil Law, European Private Law, Comparative Law and Market-regulation through Consumer and Competition law since December 2013. In spring 2016, she was serving as visiting professor at Columbia Law School.

Before her appointment as associate professor at Humboldt University in 2009, she conducted research at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg, Germany), the London School of Economics (Great Britain) and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Professor Augenhofer studied law at the University of Graz (Austria, Mag. Iur.), the Universitá Statale di Milano (Italy), the University of Vienna (Austria, doctor iuris), and as a Fulbright scholar at Yale Law School (LL.M.) as well as at the Free University Berlin (Germany, LL.M.), where she was supported by a Yale Fox Fellowship. She has been a visiting scholar at Yale Law School in 2013 and 2014 and was appointed associate research scholar in law in 2014.

Her focus in teaching and research ranges from (international) contract and consumer law to fair trading law and antitrust law—with a special emphasis on the enforcement of rights and legal comparison in the context of the harmonisation of private law in the EU and transnational settings. Her current research focuses on self-regulation privacy law, the TTIP, and the private enforcement of antitrust law.

Professor Augenhofer is a Fellow of the European Law Institute (ELI). She has advised the European Parliament and the European Commission on various issues regarding European fair trading law and its enforcement. She is the co-founder of the Humboldt Consumer Law Clinic , the first German legal clinic for consumer rights.

Center Affiliation: Center for Law, Economics, and Organization Research Project: Liability for Corporate Speech

Maria Adele Carrai is a Max Weber Fellow in Law at the European University Institute. After spending a year as a visiting doctoral researcher at NYU, she received her PhD in international law from the University of Hong Kong, where she was a Hong Kong PhD Fellow and a Swire Scholar. Her dissertation, titled 'A Genealogy of Sovereignty in China, 1840-today,' investigates how the concept of sovereignty was appropriated and used by Chinese intellectuals and diplomats from the end of the Qing dynasty, emphasizing how such appropriation was essential for Chinese modern history.

She was trained as a sinologist and political scientist, receiving her education in Italy at the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” University Ca’ Foscari of Venice and University of Bologna, in the United Kingdom at the School of Oriental and African Studies and China at the China University of Political Science and Law and Central University of Finance and Economics.

Her primary research focus is the history of international law in China within a global history framework, and how today China can influence the international legal order in the making.

Center Affiliation:  Institute for International Law and Justice Research Project: International Legal Orders and Legitimacy: Where does Chinese Exceptionalism Fit?

An anthropologist by training, Debora Diniz is currently a professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Brasília and at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching interests include feminist bioethics, gender studies, sexual and reproductive health and rights, criminal and juvenile justice, mental health, disability and research methods. In 2010, Diniz published the first national survey on abortion in Brazil, which was awarded by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in 2011 for public health excellence. In 2013, she led the first national census of forensic hospitals.

Diniz is Co-Editor of the Developing World Bioethics Journal and Vice-Chair of the International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC). She is the founder of Anis – Institute of Bioethics, a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting equal citizenship and human rights for women and minorities. She has strong advocacy experience working with the Brazilian Supreme Court on cases involving abortion, marriage equality, secular state, stem cell research, and the Zika virus public health crisis. She also directed seven human rights documentary films, which combined won over 60 awards.

Center Affiliation:  Center for Research in Crime and Justice Research Project: When Writing is Surviving: Girls at Correctional Juvenile Facilities in Brazil - A Study on Punishment and Rights.

Aman is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. His general research interests are intellectual property, innovation, and development. His SJD dissertation focuses on intellectual property law, bioprospecting, and traditional knowledge. Aman’s research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law and Haramaya Law Review. He is a Global Justice Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and a fellow of the Center for Innovation Law and Policy, both at the University of Toronto. He is also a Doctoral Student Scholarship Recipient at the International Law Research Program of the Center for International Governance Innovation, a non-partisan think-tank based in Waterloo, Canada.

Aman received an LLM in intellectual property laws and policies from the University of Washington and wrote his thesis on the international access and benefit-sharing agreement on the  teff  genetic resource. He also has an LLB from Haramaya University in Ethiopia. Aman taught intellectual property law (domestic and international), international investment law and law and development in different institutions including the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Haramaya University. He has worked as a research assistant in Landesa (formerly Rural Development Institute) - a non-profit based in Seattle advocating for land rights for the poor, and interned with the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.      

Center Affiliation:  Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy Research Project: Challenges in the Intellectual Property Protection of Traditional Knowledge: Searching for Solutions Using Proprietary and Open-Innovation Concepts

Jacob Giltaij Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Netherlands

Dr. Jacob Giltaij (1981) is a Dutch legal historian currently working for the University of Helsinki in Finland. Having earned a Masters in International, European and Comparative law, he composed a dissertation on the complicated problem of the existence of human rights in Roman law. For the resulting work, he received his Ph.D. at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands in 2011. On the topic of human rights in Roman law, he has subsequently published various articles in international journals and collections, including a book contribution for Cambridge University Press on revisiting the origins of human rights. Other key publications are pieces for the Oxford Handbook of Roman law and society, the Bloomsbury´s Cultural history of law-series, and History of Political Thought. 

After having taken up a position teaching legal history and legal theory at the University of Amsterdam, since 2013 he has been working at a European Research Council project on the topic of the ´Reinvention of European legal culture 1934-1964´ (foundlaw.org), hosted by the University of Helsinki.  The project concerns various professors of Roman law examining the idea of a European legal culture before, during and after the Second World War. In this project, he focuses on the life and works of Fritz Schulz (1879-1957), a Jewish scholar of Roman law who was ousted from office by the Nazi regime and forced to flee to the UK when the War broke out.

The objective of his stay at NYU will be to collect, analyze and present archival sources pertaining to Schulz and other refugee scholars in the Anglo-American academic world from 1934 to 1964. 

Center Affiliation:  Institute for International Law and Justice Research Project: Refugee Legal Scholars, American Civil Rights and the European Project

Rudina Jasini is an attorney and researcher specialising in international criminal law and human rights law. She read for a DPhil in Law at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Carolyn Hoyle. Her doctoral research centered on the participation of victims of gross violations of human rights as civil parties in international criminal proceedings. Dr. Jasini has been a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. She has taught tutorials in public international law at Oxford University. Prior to her time at Oxford, she worked for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague as a legal counsel on the defense team in the Haradinaj case. She also has extensive experience as a legal consultant with Impunity Watch and the Slynn Foundation. Dr. Jasini is the recipient of numerous academic awards and the author of several peer reviewed articles on international justice. She has presented her work at various conferences and symposia. In April 2015, she was elected to be a member of the International Law Association Committee on Complementarity in International Criminal Law. Dr. Jasini holds a DPhil (PhD) from Oxford University, an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Oxford, an LLM in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University Law Center and a BA in Law from the University of Tirana.

Center Affiliation:  Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Research Project: Public International Law, International Criminal Law and Human Rights Law

Tarun Khaitan is an Associate Professor and the Hackney Fellow in Law at Wadham College, Oxford. He is also an Associate of the Oxford Human Rights Hub. He completed his undergraduate studies (BA LLB Hons) at the National Law School (Bangalore) between 1999-2004. He then attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and completed his postgraduate studies (BCL, MPhil, DPhil) at Exeter College (Oxford). OUP has recently published his monograph entitled 'A Theory of Discrimination Law'. His research interests include discrimination law, Indian public law and legal theory.

Center Affiliation:  Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Research Project: Religious Freedom and Religious Discrimination

Adrian is a Branco Weiss Fellow of Society in Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. After having taught as Associate Lecturer at Zurich University School of Law he was a Swiss National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow and worked on a project on the history of European Competition Law at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute in Florence. Adrian gained experience as a law clerk with an international business law firm and at the District Court of Zurich. He also served on the board of an international start-up company that helps advance the education industry.

Adrian's first book entitled “Efficiency or Freedom to Compete? On the Goals of the Law against Private Restraints on Competition” won the Issekutz Prize and the Empiris Award and was published by Mohr Siebeck and the Walter Eucken Institut. Some of Adrian’s recent writings appeared in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the European Competition Journal, an Oxford volume on the Historical Foundations of EU Competition Law, and the Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law.

Adrian received his Ph.D. from Zurich University and holds a Master of Law and J.S.D. degree from Yale Law School. His work draws on insights from the behavioral sciences to document the law’s role in stimulating new innovation and economic growth. It focuses on developing a novel set of responses to problems of consumer sovereignty within antitrust and intellectual property law.

Center Affiliation:  Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy Research Project: Advertising and Consumer Sovereignty

Andreas Kulick is a Senior Research Fellow at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany.  He holds degrees from the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (HEID), Humboldt University Berlin, NYU School of Law (LL.M. ’09, Fulbright scholar) the University of Tübingen (doctor iuris, summa cum laude , ’11). He was a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge in 2010 and 2015 and will be a visiting fellow at the Berlin Social Science Research Center (WZB) in January and February 2017. His stay at NYU is supported by a travel grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.

His academic interests lie in the field of public international law, in particular international dispute settlement and international courts and tribunals, the law of State responsibility, the law of treaties and international human rights, as well as German and comparative constitutional law.  Andreas is widely published in these fields, including Global Public Interest in International Investment Law (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Reassertion of Control over the Investment Treaty Regime (ed., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in late 2016).  He is Member of the International Law Association (ILA) Study Group “Content and Evolution of the Rules of Interpretation” and reports on international investment law for the ILA Study Group “Principles of Engagement of Domestic Courts with International Law”.

In addition to his academic work, Andreas has extensive experience as counsel and advocates before international courts and tribunals. He has advised and represented sovereigns before, inter alia , the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) and arbitral tribunals established under the rules of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

Center Affiliation:  Institute for International Law and Justice Research Project: The Horizontal Effect of Fundamental Rights from a Comparative Perspective

Nari Lee is the professor of intellectual property at Hanken School of Economics, Finland, where she worked since 2012. She has studied law at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea, and at Kyushu University, Japan, where she received master of laws (LL.M) and doctor of laws (LL.D) degrees. She also holds a postgraduate degree (Licentiate) in Business Administration and Economics from University of Vaasa, Finland and a Ph.D from University of Eastern Finland, Finland. Since 1996, she has taught and researched in the area of intellectual property in universities in Europe and in Asia. She has worked as a senior research fellow and a program director at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich, Germany. During 2016, she will be a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Law of University of Cambridge.

Nari’s research focus is on the interaction of law and technology. She has been writing on the theory of intellectual property, innovation and patent law and particularly on the alternative governance regime to intellectual property. Her recent publications include topics on open Innovation, pharmaceutical patents, and governance of intellectual property in China and Europe.

Her research project at NYU will focus on the issue of disruptive innovation and intellectual property law with the example of 3D printing technology. She will be affiliated with the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy.

Center Affiliation:  Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy Research Project: Governing Disruptive Technologies through Intellectual Property – A Case of 3D printing

Monika is a lawyer by training, educated both in Poland (AMU Poznan; Master in Law) and Germany (LMU Munich, LL.M. Program in European and International Business Law; University of Bonn, Ph.D. in Law). She has been a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Collective Goods in Bonn and a member of the International Max Planck Research School “Uncertainty” since 2012. During her work at the Max Planck Institute she developed theoretical predictions based on formal economic models, designed, programmed, and conducted economics experiments as well as analyzed experimental data to answer legally motivated questions. In her research, she combines her legal education and professional experience with experimental economics approach providing evidence-based arguments to the ongoing legal debates. One example of this approach is her research on affirmative action and group dynamics where she described behavioral consequences of a gender quota rule for cooperation between group members. She also investigated experimentally the impact of two types of contracts – fixed-term and open-ended – on individual behavior showing that seemingly equivalent contract types might differently influence a contractual relationship.

Center Affiliation:  Center for Law, Economics, and Organization Research Project:  Contractual Formalities and Their Behavioral Implications

Professor Aoife Nolan is Professor of International Human Rights Law at the School of Law at the University of Nottingham. She co-directs the University’s Rights and Justice Research Priority Area, the world’s largest cluster of rights and justice scholars, involving over 700 members from 22 different University centres.  In November 2016, she was elected as a member of the Council of Europe's European Committee of Social Rights.  She has published extensively in the area of human rights law and is a global expert in the areas of children’s rights and economic and social rights. She was founding coordinator of the Economic and Social Rights Academic Network UK and Ireland (ESRAN-UKI) and is currently a member of the Editorial Boards of the Human Rights Law Review , the International Human Rights Law Review and the International Journal of Children's Rights . She has previously held visiting positions at institutions including Columbia University, the University of Stellenbosch, Fordham University, Queen’s University Belfast and the Université Catholique de Louvain.

In addition, she has worked with and acted as an expert advisor to a wide range of international and national bodies and organisations working on human rights issues, including a range of UN Special Procedures, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Council of Europe, a wide range of international NGOs and multiple national human rights institutions.

Her monographs include Children’s Socio-economic Rights, Democracy and the Courts (Hart, 2011), while she has edited the following collections Economic and Social Rights after the Global Financial Crisis (CUP, 2014), Human Rights and Public Finance (Hart, 2013) (with O’Connell and Harvey) and The United Nations Special Procedures System (Brill, forthcoming 2016) (with Freedman and Murphy).

Center Affiliation:  Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Research Project: Addressing the Challenges of Financial and Economic Crises: What Role for Human Rights?

Argyri is a post-doctoral fellow specializing in Internet law and policy, public goods management and law and economics, and is affiliated with the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy. Her research focuses on the intersection of IP law with technology and access to knowledge. She is currently examining the impact of digitization on the future of public libraries and, specifically, their efforts to adapt to the digital era and their strategies to reach and provide access to a broader demographic.

Argyri received her LL.B. from the University of Athens and her LL.M. from Harvard Law School and is a Ph.D. candidate at the European University Institute in Florence. Her thesis examines the legal challenges for the creation of digital libraries and explores normative directions for copyright rules and exceptions currently applicable to libraries. In addition, in 2014 she was a visiting scholar at Berkeley School of Law where she explored sustainable models for creating academic digital libraries. During the course of her doctoral studies, Argyri has advised libraries on contracts and e-licenses and has also taught courses in copyright law and digital humanities. Prior to her doctoral studies she practiced competition law in a private law firm in Brussels.

Center Affiliation:  Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy Research Project: Digitization and the Future of Public Libraries

Zhengwen Shi is a Professor of tax law and the Director of the Center for Fiscal and Tax Law Research at China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) Law School, China. He teaches and conducts Chinese tax law, international tax law, economic law and public finance.

Zhengwen Shi received his Master's Degree from Renmin University of China Law School, and Ph.D from Peking University Law School. He has engaged in postdoctoral research work on financial economics at Renmin Uviversity in China. In his academic career, he conducts academic exchanges and visits to many countries such as, Germany, Italy, Denmark and South Korea, etc.  From July 2008 to July 2009, he has been a visiting scholar at the University of Florida Law School.

Zhengwen Shi has engaged in research work on tax legislation and tax policy at China Ministry of Finance, and currently serves as Vice President of the China Association for Fiscal and Tax Law, an Academic Committee Member of the Chinese Tax Institute, a Budget Supervision Consultant for the Beijing Municipal People's Congress, a Member of Expert Committee for legislative work of Beijing Municipal Government, the Vice President of Beijing Tax Law Construction Research Institute, a Tax Administrative Reconsideration Committee Member of Beijing Local Taxation Bureau, an Arbitrator of Guangzhou Arbitration Commission, a part-time lawyer in Beijing HuaShui Lawyers.

He is one of the leading tax law scholars in China as a core fiscal and tax legislative consultant for the Chinese National People's Congress, Ministry of Finance, and State Administration of Taxation. He has participated in the legal drafting work of General Tax Law, VAT Law, Corporate Income Tax Law, Chinese Individual Income Tax Law, Tax Collection Law, Budget Law, Environmental Tax Law, Customs Duty Law. He has also hosted and participated in more than 20 national and provincial research projects, such as, "Basic Issues in the Legislation of Chinese General Tax Law", “Comparative Study of Customs Duty Legislation”, “Study on Development Trends of International Tax Collection System”.

Zhengwen Shi has explored many areas of research, resulting in more than 30 books, including: "Tax Law Theory", (China Taxation Press, 2007), "Tax Procedure Law", (Peking University Press, 2003), "Credit-Debtor Theory of Taxation", (China University of Political Science Press, 2008). He has published more than 100 articles in core journals, including: "Righteousness Distribution and the Reform of the Individual Income Tax Law" ("China Legal Science", 2011, 5th issue), "Crack the Legal Problems of the Tax Administration Law Modification" ("Taxation Research", 2015, 8th issue), "The Statute Limitation of Tax Debt" ("Chinese Journal of Law", 2007, 4th issue). He is, at the same time, the Chief Editor of the "China Tax Law Review".

Center Affiliation: Graduate Tax Program Research Project: Distributive Justice and Individual Income Tax Law Reform in China

Diheng Xu received her Ph.D. in tax law (2016) at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. She holds Bachelor of Law, Bachelor of Economics, and Master of Economic Law from Wuhan University, China. She received scholarships for exchange studies in Australia and Austria.

Her research interests include international taxation, Chinese tax law, comparative tax law, and European tax law. Her Ph.D. research focuses on the relationship between Chinese tax incentives and subsidy rules of the World Trade Organization, with reference to State aid law in the European Union. As a global research fellow, her research project aims at figuring out interactions between China and international tax law norms. It focuses on implications derived from base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) in the context of international tax competition.

Her recent works will be published with Intertax (forthcoming June 2016) and International Taxation in China (forthcoming 2016).

Center Affiliation:  Graduate Tax Program Research Project: China and BEPS: Interactions between China and the International Tax Norm

2015-2016 Academic Year

Sofia Amaral-Garcia Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Portugal

Sofia Amaral-Garcia is a Research Associate at DIW Berlin, Department of Firms and Markets (since September). She is also a Fellow at the Berlin Center for Consumer Policies (BCCP). Before joining DIW Berlin she was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Law & Economics, ETH Zurich.

She received her Ph.D. from the European Doctorate in Law and Economics (University of Bologna, Erasmus University of Rotterdam and University of Hamburg). Her broad research interests are in empirical law and economics, applied econometrics, health economics and comparative law, with specific applications to medical malpractice, health care, judicial behavior and courts. Sofia’s research has been published in (or is forthcoming at) the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Health Policy, Health Economics, European Journal of Tort Law and Encyclopedia of Law and Economics.

She received her M.P.P.A. (Master in Public Policy and Administration) and B.A. (Licenciatura) in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics (Portugal).

Research Project: Conflicts of interest in medicine: the interaction between physicians and pharmaceutical companies

Shreya Atrey Post-Doctoral Global Fellow India

Shreya studied B.A. LL.B.(Hons.) at the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, India and graduated at the top of her class in 2011. She came to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and completed the BCL with distinction in 2012. She completed her DPhil in Law in 2015 under the supervision of Prof. Sandra Fredman. Her research focused on realizing intersectionality theory into discrimination law.

At Oxford, Shreya served as the Chairperson of Oxford Pro Bono Publico, an organization of graduate law students and faculty members dedicated to the practice of public interest law on a pro bono basis. Shreya also taught on the European Human Rights Law Course. Shreya coached the University of Oxford team for the 54th Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, which was declared the U.K. National Champion in 2013. She has served as the Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal and the Editor-in-Chief of the NALSAR Student Law Review. Her research and teaching interests are in international and comparative human rights law, discrimination law, disability law, public law and feminist jurisprudence.

Research Project: Intersectional Violations: A Case of Poverty

Susan Emmenegger Senior Global Research Fellow Switzerland

Susan Emmenegger is a full professor of law and the director of the Institute of Banking Law at Bern University, Switzerland. She also serves as vice-president of the Swiss Takeover Panel.

Susan studied in Switzerland and Italy. She received a bilingual French/German law degree and a Ph.D. from Fribourg University. She holds an LL.M. from Cornell Law School, where she was a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar and an associate editor of the Cornell International Law Journal. She has been a visiting scholar at Berkeley Law School, Paris IV, the MPI for Foreign and International Private law in Hamburg and the European University Institute in Florence, as well as an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School.

Susan's research focus is on contract law, legal methodology and financial markets law. She is the co-author of a standard textbook on Swiss contract law, of a treatise on legal methodology and the author of a widely noted book on the internal governance of banks. She has written extensively on various aspects of contractual and regulatory aspects of banking law. She is the editor of a book series on banking law and co-editor of the Swiss Financial Markets Review. She is also a member of a joint government/industry council which advises the Swiss government on financial market strategy issues and a member of the academic council of the Max-Planck-Institute of Foreign and International Private Law.

Her research project at NYU will focus on the issue of conflicting national laws in the context of international financial regulation, including the question of extraterritoriality. Susan will be affiliated with the Center for Financial Institutions and the Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement.

Research Project: Conflicting Laws in International Financial Regulation

Jennifer Hill Senior Global Research Fellow Australia

Jennifer Hill is Professor of Corporate Law and co-director of the Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law at University of Sydney Law School, Australia. Jennifer writes in the fields of comparative corporate law and governance. A graduate of the University of Sydney and Oxford University, she has previously been a Visiting Professor at several US law schools, including Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, University of Texas and Cornell,. In July-August 2015 will be a Herbert Smith Freehills Visitor at the University of Cambridge, England.

Jennifer is a Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law (AAL). She is a member of several Editorial Boards, including the corporations law editorial board of Cambridge University Press. She has also served on committees involving corporate law reform and policy, such as the Law Council of Australia, Corporations Law Committee; the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC); and is a member of the External Advisory Panel to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).

Jennifer’s research has explored many aspects of corporate law and governance from a theoretical and comparative perspective. Her recent research includes a co-authored book (with E. Ferran, N. Moloney, J.C. Coffee, Jr.), entitled The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and a co-edited book (with R.S. Thomas), entitled Research Handbook on Shareholder Power (Edward Elgar, 2015).

Research Project: International Regulatory Governance and Structures in the Post-Crisis Era

Asem Khalil Global Research Fellow Palestine

Asem Khalil is an Associate Professor of Public Law, H.H. Shaikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Chair in Constitutional and International Law, Birzeit University. Dr. Khalil is the former Dean of the Faculty of Law and Public Administration (2012-2015), and of the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies (2010-2012). Dr. Khalil holds a Ph.D. in Public Law, Fribourg University, Switzerland, a Master in Public Administration from the National School of Administration, France, and a doctorate in Utriusque Juris, Lateran University, Italy. His latest publications includes: “Palestinians to Citizens: Is Citizenship a Solution to the Palestinian Refugee Problem?” (Middle East Law and Governance), “Beyond the Written Constitution: Constitutional Crisis of, and the Institutional Deadlock in, the Palestinian Political System as Entrenched in the Basic Law” (International Journal of Constitutional Law), “Socioeconomic Rights of Palestinian Refugees in Arab Countries (International Journal of Refugee Law), “From Constitutions to Constitutionalism in Arab States: Beyond Paradox to Opportunity” (Transnational Legal Theory). Dr. Khalil is also the author of several chapters in books published by well-known academic publishers including Palgrave, Oxford University Press, I.B. Tauris, L'Harmattan, and Cameron May Ltd.

Research Project: Arab Political Systems in Crisis: Alternative Approaches to a Better Understanding of the Dynamics of Arab Regimes

Fabio Morosini Global Research Fellow Brazil

Fabio Morosini is a law professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he directs the Center for Law, Globalization and Development, and teaches and conducts research on international trade; international investment; and methods in law. In addition to teaching full time, Prof. Morosini has been appointed as a Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil) to lead a research project on South-South trade and investment relations.

Dr. Morosini was a Research Fellow at the World Trade Organization (2009-2010). He holds a Ph.D in Latin American Studies and an LL.M. from the University of Texas at Austin; a Masters, with honors, in law and economic globalization from the University of Paris 1/ Institute of Political Studies of Paris; and a Bachelor of Law degree from the Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. His Ph.D thesis was on the topic “The MERCOSUR and WTO Retreaded Tires Dispute: Rehabilitating Regulatory Competition in International Trade and Environmental Regulation”. His current research agenda explores the legal tools that Brazil undertakes, both at the international and national levels, to implement its own development policies on trade and investment matters.

He is widely published in his areas of research, including: The Brazilian Approach to Its South-South Trade and Investment Relations: The Case of Angola, FGV Direito SP Research Paper Series n. 114. Available at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2532584 (2014) (co-authored with Michelle Ratton Sanchez Badin); The Status of Sustainable Development in the Law of the World Trade Organization, in ARBITRAGEM E COMÉRCIO INTERNACIONAL: ESTUDOS EM HOMENAGEM A LUIZ OLAVO, 529 (Umberto Celli Júnior, Maristela Basso & Alberto do Amaral Júnior eds., 2013) (co-authored with Gabrielle Marceau); Trade and Climate Change: Unveiling the Principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities from the WTO Agreements, 42:4 THE GEORGE WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW, 713 (2010); The MERCOSUR Trade and Environment Linkage Debate: The Disputes over Trade in Retreaded Tires, 44:5 JOURNAL OF WORLD TRADE, 1127 (2010). His full CV is available in both English and Portuguese at: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3545195769262482 . Email: [email protected]

Research Project: Putting South-South Trade & Investment Regulations Into Context: The Case of Brazil and Angola

Machie Murata Global Fellow from Practice & Government Japan

Machie Murata is a Japanese lawyer and the Head of Legal Affairs for the Office of Society-Academia Collaboration for Innovation (SACI) at Kyoto University.  The mission of the SACI is to promote knowledge and technology transfer for leading innovation.  Machie manages the Legal Affairs Department of the SACI, supervises legal practices in technology transfer including patent-related issues and seed fund management for startups, and researches legal and practical issues related to this field.

Machie obtained her LL.B. degree in 2001 from the Faculty of Law at Doshisha University and passed the Japanese bar exam in the same year.  She was a legal apprentice at the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan from 2002-2003, worked for a law firm in Osaka as an attorney from 2004-2006, and thereafter joined Kyoto University as an in-house counsel.  Machie is a trailblazer.  She is the first in-house counsel for a Japanese university working exclusively in the legal field of technology transfer. 　She has built a career as one of the first Japanese attorneys to specialize in this field.  Through her strong leadership, her legal team has become very well recognized as an excellent professional team in the Japanese technology transfer field.

Machie is currently interested in creating a model environment for successfully supporting startups that is suited for Japan.  One of the difficulties with university technology transfer is the gap between the universities’ researches and the technologies sought by businesses.  She believes forming startups is one of the most effective ways to bridge this gap.  Her research at NYU School of Law will be focused on an investigation and analysis of the models being used for university startups in the United States. She would like to utilize the research results to create a model environment suited for startups in Japan by considering the differences between the United States and Japanese culture and society.

Research Project: The Key Factors and Issues, and Professional Supports for University Startups to Achieve Innovation

Yoon Jin Shin Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Republic of Korea (South Korea)

Yoon Jin Shin received her J.S.D. (2015) and LL.M. (2011) degrees at Yale Law School. Her doctoral dissertation critically investigated the nature of the current global legal regime directed to combat human trafficking, illuminated its negative impact on the individuals, and suggested an alternative approach to effectively address the issue as a transnational human rights problem. Her dissertation won the Ambrose Gherini Prize at Yale Law School for the best student writing in international law in 2014-15. Before coming to Yale, Yoon Jin was a judge in South Korea, mainly in criminal courts, including a special division for sexual violence. She was awarded a Stepping Stone Prize from the Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center for the best court decision for women’s rights in 2009.

After leaving court in February 2010, she served as a Fellow in Gonggam—Korean Public Interest Lawyers’ Group, working on a pro bono basis for human rights cases. In 2011, she participated in the 49th session of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, as a Korean NGO delegate, documenting the English version of the Shadow Report and making a presentation on behalf of the delegate. While studying in Seoul National University, where she graduated from with summa cum laude, Yoon Jin worked with various human rights and public interest organizations, engaging in numerous research and advocacy projects aiming to empower disadvantaged groups in society. Yoon Jin holds a certificate from the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family in Korea as a counselor for survivors of sexual violence, and won Human Rights Thesis Award from the National Human Rights Commission of Korea in 2002 for a thesis on the labor rights of people with disabilities. She is a member of New York Bar Association and MINBYUN—Lawyers for a Democratic Society in Korea.

Her areas of interest include international law, constitutional law, transnational law, and human rights. Her recent publications include “Human Trafficking and Labor Migration: The Dichotomous Law and Complex Realities of Filipina Entertainers in South Korea and Suggestions for Integrated and Contextualized Legal Responses” in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (forthcoming Spring 2015).

Research Project: Global Constitutionalism, Transnational Human Rights Law and the Constitutional Rights Practice of South Korea

Jing Tao (陶靖) specializes in international relations, international law, China’s foreign policy, and East Asian security. During the 2015-2016 fellowship period, she works on a book manuscript entitled “Sovereignty Costs and China’s Socialization into International Legal Regimes: Evidence from Hard Law”. This project develops from her dissertation, and uses different types of “hard laws” with legalized dispute settlement mechanisms to examine the depth of China’s socialization in international legal regimes and the changes and continuities of China’s approach to state sovereignty. Meanwhile, she starts to work on a new project, examining how international law influences China’s strategies of managing maritime disputes and the dynamics of interactions among Asian states regarding those disputes in East and South China Seas.

She holds double B.A. degrees in International Relations and Economics, an M.A. degree in International Relations from Peking University, and a Ph.D. degree in Political Science from Cornell University. She was a post-doctoral research associate in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program at Princeton University in 2014-2105.

Her recent works will be forthcoming in the Journal of Contemporary China (2015), and in an edited book volume, China's Socialist Rule of Law Reforms Under Xi Jinping , published by Routledge (2016). 

Research Project:  Better Now than Later: The  " Effective Control "  Doctrine and China’s Assertiveness in Maritime Disputes

Frederick Wilmot-Smith Post-Doctoral Global Fellow United Kingdom

Fred is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He read law at the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate and studied for his graduate degrees, including a doctorate, at the University of Oxford. He was awarded the Vinerian Scholarship, for the best performance in the year, on the Bachelor of Civil Law, a master's degree in the common law.

His research interests to date have included private law and its philosophical foundations. He is writing a book on benefit-based obligations, which are important in numerous legal and political debates. As a Global Fellow, he will examine the theoretical foundations of legal systems as a whole and the normative implications these have for important contemporary policy questions, such as whether the State should subsidize its citizens’ use of the legal system.

His work has appeared in a number of academic journals and books; he co-edits a series on defenses in private law and has written for the London Review of Books. 

Research Project: Legal Aid: A Philosophical Inquiry

2014-2015 Academic Year

Remo Caponi Senior Global Research Fellow Italy

Remo is full professor of civil procedure at the University of Florence, School of Law. His predecessor in this chair was among others Mauro Cappelletti. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Law Institute (ELI), the Council of the International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL), the Board of Trustees of the Academy of European Law, the Board of Directors of the Italian Association of Civil Procedure.

Remo holds a JD from the University of Florence and a PhD in civil procedure from the University of Bologna. He is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Heidelberg and a DAAD research fellow at the Humboldt University Berlin. He has been the reporter for Italy, Spain, Portugal and Slovenia in the Study for the European Parliament on the public policy exception and a co-reporter in the Study for the European Commission on insolvency proceedings.

Remo has published several books and about two hundred papers in Italian, English and German language in the field of civil procedure (domestic and transnational), comparative civil procedure and constitutional law. He often has been a speaker at international conferences and workshops (among others in Berlin, Kyoto, São Paulo, Heidelberg, Budapest, Valparaiso, Santiago de Chile, Athens, Madrid, Dresden, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Izmir).

After dealing widely with “classic” topics of civil procedure ( res judicata , structure of proceedings, interplay between judicial powers and the powers of parties, role of Supreme Courts, provisional measures), Remo has been broadening his interests to the constitutional settings of administration of justice, the dialogue between national and international courts, the European law of civil procedure, the fair trial guarantee in transnational litigation.

Remo will be affiliated for the whole academic year 2014-2015 with the Center on Civil Justice at the NYU Law School ( http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/civiljustice ). Email  [email protected] . His research project focuses on the interplay between specific aspects of civil procedure and the whole judicial system, as well as the relationship between legal system and ethical and cultural dimensions affecting citizens and professionals involved in the machinery of justice.

Research Project:  Just about Dispute Resolution?

Daniel Fitzpatrick Senior Global Research Fellow Australia

Professor Fitzpatrick writes on property rights in a development context. In 2007 he won the Hart Article Prize from the UK Socio-Legal Association for an article entitled:  Evolution and Chaos in Property Rights Systems: The Third World Tragedy of Contested Access . He has published in the Yale Law Journal, Law and Society Review, the Yale Journal of International Law, and Law and Social Inquiry. He has been a Global Visiting Professor at New York University School of Law (2011), a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore (2006-09); a Visiting Professor at the University of Muenster (2002); and a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto (2007). Currently he is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2012-2016) [ The Resilience of Property: Inundation, Displacement and Local Relocation in the Asia-Pacific ].

Professor Fitzpatrick has extensive experience in the public policy of property rights and development. He was the UN's land rights adviser in post-conflict East Timor (2000) and post-tsunami Aceh (2005-6). He is the primary author of the UN's Land and Disasters: Guidance for Practitioners (2010). He has undertaken professional consultancies on law and development with the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, Oxfam International, the OECD, UNDP and UN-Habitat. In 2011 he established the Law, Governance and Development Initiative at the Australian National University.

Research Project:  Getting to Coase:  Equilibrium and the Institution of Property

Ida Koivisto Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Finland

Dr. Ida Koivisto is a post-doctoral researcher from University of Helsinki, Finland. She is also a member of both The Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights and The Centre of Excellence in the Foundations of European Law and Polity Research in University of Helsinki. Recently, she has worked as the coordinator of Finnish nation-wide doctoral program. In the past, she has been a visiting researcher in European University Institute, Florence.

Ida’s doctoral dissertation (Faculty of Law, Uni. Helsinki 2011) discusses the many discourses of good governance. The main argument of the study is that the linguistic open-endedness as well as the strategic use of the words “good” and “governance” make the concept radically indeterminate. As such, it can be plausibly used for multiple ideological purposes. Relatedly, the study critically examines the normative pull of legal rationality.

Ida’s research interests cover public law, especially administrative law, international public law, socio-legal studies, legal theory and philosophy. At most general, she is interested in the interconnections of law and other normative systems in society. As a Global Fellow her research project delves into the debate on global administrative law. She approaches it as a matrix of the ideal of transparency, combining critical legal scholarship and contemporary philosophy.

Research project:  Regulating Visibility - Transparency as an Ideal in Global Administrative Law

Michelle Miao Post-Doctoral Global Fellow China/UK

Michelle Miao has recently completed her Howard League post-doctoral fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for Criminology. During the fellowship, she studied the contradiction between European human rights influences and a rising trend of penal populism in the context of British penal politics. She completed her DPhil in Law at the University of Oxford in 2013 and is currently converting her doctoral thesis  The Politics of Change: Explaining Capital Punishment Reform in China  into a book.

Her thesis presents material from one of the first empirical studies on China’s recent death penalty reform under the influences of international human rights law. The core empirical component of the thesis was a series of elite interviews with penal professionals at national and lower levels in China, including judges, prosecutors, and legislators, who are proximate to the sources of information held by state authorities, or closely involved in the day-to-day administration of capital punishment. The research first explained the limited success of the international intervention in China’s death penalty reform. It went further to identify three interrelated domestic forces - rising penal populism, the overt politicisation of penal process, and entrenched localism in the use of penal power- as an explanation of why and how the Europe-induced changes has been constrained by local conditions. The thesis has important policy implications for reform-minded policy makers, abolitionist activists, and human rights advocates in China and worldwide.

Michelle holds two Masters Degrees, one from Renmin University of China Law School and the other from New York University Law School. Her research interests are the intersections between the domains of criminology, human rights, socio-legal studies and international law. As a postdoc fellow of the Centre for Research in Crime & Justice, Michelle’s research project at NYU will examine the connection between the abolition of the death penalty and the rise of Life without the Possibility of Parole as an alternative.

Research Project:  Moving towards Lengthy Life Imprisonment? A Comparative Study on the Alternative Sanctions to the Death Penalty in the United States and China

André Nollkaemper Senior Global Research Fellow Netherlands

André Nollkaemper is Professor of Public International Law of the University of Amsterdam. Since May 2011 he also is (external) Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. He is President of the European Society of International Law, member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences of the Netherlands, and member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

In 1999, he established the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL), which he directed until 2009. His practical experience includes cases before the European Court on Human Rights, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, courts of the Netherlands and consultancy for a variety of international and national organisations.

André Nollkaemper published widely in the areas of general international law, international responsibility, the relations between international and national law, and international environmental law.

Research Project:  Shared Responsibility in International Law

Luigi Nuzzo Global Research Fellow Italy

Luigi is professor of Legal History and History of International Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy). After graduating in Law at the University of Pavia, he held a PhD in History of Medieval and Modern Law from the University of Siena. Several times research grant holder at the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt am Main), he carried out research at the Universities of Barcelona, Seville, Madrid and Mexico City. He was a Senior Robbins Research Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley (2007; 2012) and a Alexander von Humboldt Forschungsstipendiat  (2008; 2010; 2013). He is a member of the  Instituto Internacional de Derecho Indiano (Buenos Aires) and of the editorial board of the  Journal of History of International Law  (Heidelberg) and  Storica (Rome).

He published extensively in Italian as well as in English, German and Spanish, about the history of international law, the colonial law, the Spanish Indies (XVIth -XVIIth centuries) and the German and Italian legal culture between the XIXth and XX century. His recent books are:  Origini di una Scienza. Diritto internazionale e colonialismo nel XIX secolo , Frankfurt/Main, Klostermann, 2012;  Constructing International Law.  The Birth of a Discipline , (with Milos Vec), Frankfurt/Main, Klostermann, 2012.

He is currently undertaking a comparative study of the Western concessions in Tianjin between 1900 and 1945, particularly focusing on the strategies of colonial governance and on the role played by law in the production process of a new social space and new subjectivity in China.

Research Project:  Space, Time and Law in a Colonial City: Tianjin 1900-1945

Yukio Okitsu Global Research Fellow Japan

Yukio Okitsu is an associate professor of law at Kobe University, where he has been teaching courses on administrative law, French law, and European law. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Paris 13 Nord.

His primary research subjects have been judicial review and administrative litigation systems. A book of his has been published in Japanese based on his master’s thesis work which examined the effects of judicial judgments on administrative agencies in Japan, France, and Germany. He has also been conducting a comparative study on French administrative law and has written articles both in Japanese and in French.

Yukio has also been focusing on European law, especially the relationship and interaction between the legal orders of the EU, the ECHR, and their Member States. He coedited an anthology on this topic and contributed an article to it on the famous case of the European Court of Human Rights “ Kress v. France ” of 2001, which is also available in English (Yukio Okitsu,  European Convention on Human Rights and French Administrative Justice: A Case Study on the Dialogue between National and Supranational Legal Orders , 47 Kobe U. L. Rev. 15 (2013)). Recently, he has turned his attention to global administrative law. During his residency at NYU he plans to develop his research on this subject, especially seeking to explain why and how the rules and principles of administrative law apply beyond the jurisdictional boundaries of domestic legal systems.

He holds an LLB (2000) and an LLM (2002) from the University of Tokyo and a master’s degree in internal public law (2005) from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, where he studied as a recipient of the French Government Scholarship ( Boursier du gouvernement français ).  View his full CV.

Research Project:  The Normative Foundations for the Existence of Administrative Law in a Supranational Context

Zoran Oklopcic Global Research Fellow Canada

Dr. Zoran Oklopcic is Associate Professor at Carleton University's Department of Law and Legal Studies. In the past, he was MacCormick Visiting Fellow at the Edinburgh Law School, as well as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pompeu Fabra Department of Political Science. He holds an LLM from the Central European University, and earned his SJD from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Dr. Oklopcic has published in the areas of constitutional theory, comparative constitutional law and public international law. His work on constituent power, self-determination, secession and constitutional pluralism has appeared in journals such as  Constellations ,  Leiden Journal of International Law ,  Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence ,  Global Constitutionalism  and  Transnational Legal Theory . His current research focuses on the mutation of self-determination discourse in Catalonia, as well as on the ‘duty to negotiate federalization’ as a potential component in  early-conflict  constitution making .  He also works on a larger book project, tentatively called "After the People: Provincializing Constitutional Theory."

Research Project:  Lilliputian Travels: Constitutional Imaginary, Democratic Theory and the Asymmetric Cross-Border Political Participation

Friedrich Rosenfeld Global Fellow from Practice & Government Germany

Dr. Friedrich Rosenfeld is a German attorney specializing in arbitration and public international law. He acts as counsel, expert witness and arbitrator.

Friedrich is also Visiting Professor at the International Hellenic University of Thessaloniki and lecturer for investment arbitration at the University of Hamburg and at Bucerius Law School.

Prior to joining his current firm, he worked as consultant for the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials in Cambodia. Friedrich holds a doctoral degree  summa cum laude . He studied at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and Columbia Law School in New York.

Research Project:  Bridging the Gap Between Investment  and Commercial  Arbitration at the Enforcement Stage

Yaniv Roznai Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Israel

Yaniv Roznai completed his PhD at the Department of Law, The London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) in 2014. His thesis is entitled: ‘Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments: A Study of The Nature and Limits of Constitutional Amendment Powers’. He holds an LL.M from LSE (Distinction) in international law and LLB and BA degrees in Law and Government from the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel (Magna cum Laude). In 2013, he was a visiting student research collaborator at the Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA), Princeton University.

In 2014, Yaniv was awarded the thesis prize of the European Group of Public Law (EGPL), which is awarded on an annual basis to the best doctoral public law thesis characterized by its European dimension. He is also the winner of the 2013-2012 Modern Law Review Scholarship, 2010-2013 LSE PhD Scholarship; 2010 California Bar International Law Section Annual Student Writing Competition, and 2006 IDC Annual Student Paper Competition. Prior to coming to NYU he has worked as a researcher at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, the University of Haifa; as a lecturer of comparative legal systems at Bar-Ilan University and of constitutional law at Carmel Academic College, and as a teaching and research assistant in the areas of constitutional and international law. He also served as an intern and a legal assistant in the Knesset’s (Israeli Parliament) legal department. Yaniv is a member of the Israeli Bar, the Israeli Public Law Association and the International Society of Public Law.

Yaniv’s scholarship focuses on constitutional and international law. He has written on a variety of subjects, including comparative constitutional law, constitutional theory, the relationship between international and constitutional law, international law of armed conflict, international human rights law, and legislation. His articles can be accessed here . Yaniv has presented his work in numerous universities such as Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Cornell, Indiana, Washington University St. Louis, Queen Mary University of London, LSE, and Edinburgh. His publications appeared in journals such as  the American Journal of Comparative Law ;  International & Comparative Law Quarterly ; International Journal of Constitutional Law ;  Theory and Practice of Legislation ;  Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law ;  Wisconsin International Law Journal ;  Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal , The International Human Rights Law Review ,  Human Rights & Globalization Law Review ,  The California International Law Journal ,  Israeli Bar Assoc. Law Review ,  IDC Law Review ,  Public Law ;  The Modern Law Review , and  Stanford Law & Policy Review .

Research Project:  We the Limited People? The Nature & Scope of Constitution-Making Powers

Mario Schapiro Global Research Fellow Brazil

Mario Schapiro is a full-time professor of Law at Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School. He graduated in law from University of São Paulo, Faculty of Law, where he also obtained a master and a doctoral degree in economic law. He was research fellow of Sasakawa Young Leaders Fund (Master Program), visiting researcher at Columbia Law School (PhD program), and visiting scholar at Brazil Institute at King's College, London. Between 2012 and 2013 he was research fellow at IPEA (Brazilian Institute of Applied Economic Research), when he developed an institutional analysis of Brazilian industrial policy. His research agenda is focused on law and development, administrative law and political economy of economic development, having particular interest on institutional alternatives and policy design in the economic field. He teaches Law & Development, Administrative Law, Competition Law, and Institutions of Development Finance.

Research Project:  Combining Development and Democracy in State Financial Institutions: Delegation, Accountability, and Implications for the Brazilian Case

Yvonne Tew Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Malaysia/US

Dr. Yvonne Tew’s primary research and teaching interests are in constitutional law, comparative public and private law, family law, contracts, and law and religion. Prior to joining NYU as a Hauser Global Fellow, Yvonne taught at Columbia Law School, where she was an Associate-in-Law, Postdoctoral Research Scholar and Lecturer-in-Law. She received her PhD in constitutional law from the University of Cambridge where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. In 2012, she was awarded the Distinction in Research Prize in the Arts and Humanities by St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, for her scholarship. While at the University of Cambridge, Yvonne served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Student Law Review. Yvonne received her first law degree at the University of Cambridge, where she consistently placed in the top 5% of her class each year and graduated with Double First Class Honors. She then completed her Master of Laws (LLM) from Harvard Law School after winning the Cambridge-Harvard Law Link Benefited Place Award for the top two final-year law graduates from the University of Cambridge admitted to the Harvard Law School LLM program. After graduating from Harvard, she worked as an attaché at the Permanent Mission of Malaysia to the United Nations in New York. Yvonne has also taught constitutional law at the University of Cambridge as a supervisor and is admitted to the bar in New York. Yvonne’s publications include “Originalism at Home and Abroad” 52 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 780 (2014); “And They Call It Puppy Love: Young Love, Forced Marriage, and Immigration Rules”, 71(1) Cambridge Law Journal 18 (2012) and “No Longer a Privileged Few: Expense Claims, Prosecution, and Parliamentary Privilege”, 70(2) Cambridge Law Journal 282 (2011). Her book, “The Constitutional Core: Constitutional Adjudication in Southeast Asia,” is forthcoming with the Oxford University Press in 2015.

Research Project:  Arbitrating God

Marlon Weichert Global Fellow from Practice & Government Brazil

Marlon A. Weichert has been a federal prosecutor in Brazil for 19 years, primarily dedicated to human rights litigation and advocacy. During the past 14 years he has worked a variety of areas to advance the adoption of transitional justice measures in Brazil. He has headed the program to search and identify the remains of victims of dictatorship-era crimes and actively participated in discussions concerning the right to truth about human rights violations during this period. He was the first scholar and prosecutor in Brazil to publicly argue that the Amnesty Law of 1979 — that prevents perpetrators of human rights violations from being held accountable in the country - was contrary to international law. Since 2008 he has lead and coordinated the investigation and persecution of several cases involving such types of crimes. He has also been involved in memory recovery projects, including the development of the Brazil Never Again Digital project — a website that hosts a collection of around 850,000 digitalized documents pertaining to judicial processes initiated against victims of political repression during the Brazilian dictatorship — and the creation of sites of conscience.

In 2013, Weichert was invited by the Brazilian Minister of Justice to join a commission responsible for granting reparations to victims of political persecution, the so-called Amnesty Commission. He has also been requested to provide expert testimony before both the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (2008) and the Inter-American Human Rights Court (2010). In parallel to his work for the Public Ministry, Weichert has been frequently invited to lecture on human rights issues in different academic venues and has a vast set of publications on these subjects.

His research at NYU will focus on the role that institutional reform, within a transitional justice framework, can play in societies that — even after re-democratization — have failed to curb state violence.

Research Project:  T he Role  o f Institutional Reform  i n Transitional Justice and the Obstacles for its Development

2013-2014 Academic Year

George R.M. Anderson, was a civil servant in the Canadian government, with senior appointments in the Energy, Finance, Foreign Affairs and Finance departments before becoming Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs (1996-2002) and Natural Resources (2002-2005). He was President of the Forum of Federations, an international NGO supported by nine countries, 2005-2011.  He served as an expert member of the stand-by team of the Mediation Support Unit, United Nations in 2012-13 and continues to work with the UN on the constitutional transition in Yemen.  He has worked or lectured in over 25 countries.  Educated at Queen’s and Oxford and the École Nationale d’Administration in Paris.  Fellow at Harvard's Center for International Affairs (1992-93).  A mentor, Trudeau Foundation, 2011.   Author of  Federalism: An Introduction  (OUP 2008) and  Fiscal Federalism: An Introduction  (OUP 2010), which have been translated into 22 and 12 languages respectively.  Editor of  Oil and Gas in Federal Systems and Internal Markets and Multilevel Governance  (both OUP 2012) and co-editor of  Federal Rivers (Edward Elgar, 2013). Vice-Chair, Board of Trustuees, Queen’s University. Member, Advisory Committee, Mowat Centre, University of Toronto.

Research Project:  Dealing with Territorial Cleavages in Constitutional Transitions

Alessandro’s areas of research and professional interests are international and comparative civil procedure, domestic and international arbitration, complex litigation, access to justice, public law disputes, harmonization of law and procedural law before international courts and tribunals. He holds a JD in law from the La Sapienza University, a Master’s degree in international relations from the Italian Society for the International Organization and a PhD in arbitration law from the LUISS Guido Carli University, where he recently defended his PhD thesis on “Evidence in International Arbitration”. In the past, Alessandro has also been educated in Luxembourg, Germany, Spain and the UK and received awards by the Fondazione Sapienza, the Confindustria and the Rome Bar Association, where he is a current member of the Young Bar Conference. Having previously clerked with the Italian General State Attorneys, Alessandro has worked with domestic and international law firms, both in Rome and in London, and acted as a consultant with an Italian important trade association.

During his residency at NYU Law School he will focus on the topic of procedural agreements in the US system and in a comparative perspective.

Research Project: "Privatizing" Civil Justice Through Procedural Agreements? A Comparative Law Analysis

Susy is Professor of Law and Director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law, at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is also Chair of the Copyright Tribunal (NZ). She has been a visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, University of Western Ontario and Fellow of Clare Hall and visitor to the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge (UK). She is a member of the Executive Committee of Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) and of the editorial boards of Journal of World Intellectual Property, Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property and the University of Western Australia Law Review. She has published widely on the nexus between international intellectual property and trade law, and particularly focusing on international treaty interpretation and the protection of traditional knowledge. Her books include Intellectual Property in New Zealand (LexisNexis 2011), with Peter Drahos Indigenous Peoples Innovation: Intellectual Property Pathways to Development (ANU epress, 2012; with Meredith Kolsky Lewis International Economic Law and National Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Susy’s research expertise extends to regulatory theory and particularly the impacts of international trade of regulatory autonomy over knowledge assets and innovation. She was Project Leader of the New Zealand Law Foundation Regulatory Reform Project (funded to NZ$2million) from 2011-2013. That project’s publications include two books Susy Frankel (ed)  Learning from the Past, Adapting for the Future: Regulatory Reform in New Zealand (Lexis Nexis, 2011) and Recalibrating Behaviour: Smarter Regulation in a Global World (Lexis Nexis 2013).

Susy holds an appointment as a Neutral for the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Centre, Geneva, Switzerland. She has previously been an Assistant Commissioner of Trade Marks, Patents and Designs for the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand, 1998-2006. In that capacity she acted as an independent Hearings Officer, mostly relating to trade mark oppositions. She was specialist intellectual property adviser to the Waitangi Tribunal on the claim brought against the New Zealand  government by Maori about the protection of traditional knowledge and Maori intellectual property.  Susy qualified as Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 1988 and as a Solicitor of England & Wales in 1991 and has practised law in both jurisdictions.

Research Project: Supporting Intellectual Property's Innovation and Creativity Goals through Dynamic Interpretation of International Agreements

Dr. Barbara Lauriat is a Lecturer in Law (Assistant Professor) at King’s College London. Previously, she was the Career Development Fellow in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow by Special Election of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. She holds a BA and JD from Boston University, where she served as an editor on the Boston University Law Review , and a DPhil from the University of Oxford, where she was the General Editor (Editor-in-Chief) of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal . 

Dr Lauriat’s research is broadly concerned with intellectual property, and particularly the history of copyright. Her doctoral thesis was on the subject of the 1878 Royal Commission on Copyright. In her legal historical research, she aims to employ less traditional legal methods and sources, such as biography, personal correspondence, journalism, royal commissions and executive committees, and literature. Currently, Dr. Lauriat’s research focuses on the relationship between theories of copyright and political ideologies. In addition to her academic work, she occasionally publishes journalistic articles and limericks.

Research Project: Copyright, Left, and Center: Studies of Anglo-American Copyright in a Political Context

Faina Milman-Sivan Global Research Fellow Israel

Faina Milman-Sivan is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Haifa, where she teaches courses on Labor Law, International Labor Law, and Freedom of Association. She holds an LLM ( summa cum laude ) and JSD from Columbia University Faculty of Law. She articled at the Israeli Supreme Court, with the former Chief Justice, Dorit Beinisch, and is a member of both the New York and Israeli Bar. Milman-Sivan is also a Board Member of the Israeli Society for Labour Law and Social Security and the Israeli Branch of the International Society of Labour and Social Security. She was a guest co-editor (with Yossi Dahan) of the “Labor Rights in the Era of Globalization" Special Issue of Law & Ethics of Human Rights .   Her research and publications focus on critical analysis of the international labor regime, global justice and global governance theories and international labor, and the International Labour Organization. Other areas of interest include collective bargaining, and prisoners’ labor rights. Recent publications include: Faina Milman-Sivan, Prisoners for Hire: Towards a Normative Justification of the ILO’s Prohibition of Private Forced Prisoner Labor , FORDHAM INT’L L. J., 37 (forthcoming, 2013); Yossi Dahan, Hanna Lerner & Faina Milman-Sivan, Shared Responsibility and the International Labor Organization , MICH. J. INT’L L. 43 (forthcoming 2013). Together with Dahan and Lerner she is currently editing a book entitled GLOBAL JUSTICE AND INTERNATIONAL LABOR LAW. Milman-Sivan is a recipient of several prestigious research grants, including from the Israeli Science Foundation (ISF) and the German-Israeli Foundation (Young).

Research Project: Shared Responsibility, Global Justice, and the Representation Structure and Norms of the International Labor Organization (ILO)

Graeme Orr is a Professor of Law at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.  The law of politics, in particular electoral law, is his primary expertise.  In that field he is author of The Law of Politics (2010, Federation Press), co-editor of Realising Democracy (2003) and Electoral Democracy: Australian Prospects (2011) and International Editor of the Election Law Journal ; his doctoral work concerned the common law history and regulation of electoral bribery.  As a Global Fellow, Graeme’s focus will be a monograph on ritual and rhythm in electoral regulation.   The Australian Research Council is also currently funding a project Graeme is co-ordinating with Dr Ron Levy, on deliberative approaches to the law of democracy. This project includes a symposium run through NYU in April 2013, and a monograph for Routledge.     

Graeme has also published extensively in labour law, the law of negligence and on issues of language and law.  He is on the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Labour Law , and was formerly managing editor of the Griffith Law Review , ‘sport and the law’ columnist with the Alternative Law Journal , and employment law columnist for the Australian Journal of Administrative Law .  Prior to becoming an academic, Graeme clerked for Justices Spender and Beaumont of the Federal Court of Australia, and is admitted as a solicitor of the Queensland Supreme Court.

In 2011 Graeme won the Law School Teacher Award (UQ).  In recent years he has also been Australian correspondent for the 255 year old The Annual Register: A Record of World Events .

Research Project: Ritual and Rhythm in Electoral Systems

Sagi Peari is in the final stages of completing his SJD at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He received his LL.B. from Tel Aviv University and his LLM also from the University of Toronto.  Sagi’s research is on two interconnected (in his view) areas. First, he has a strong interest in private law and the private law categories: tort, contracts, property and restitution. Secondly, he works in the area of conflict of laws. His doctoral dissertation titled: ‘The Choice-Based Perspective of Choice-of-Law’ provides the conjunction of the two: it applies some theoretical dimensions of private law theory to conflict of laws.

Sagi is a holder of the prestigious Canadian Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS doctoral fellowship. His articles have been accepted for publication in a wide variety of legal journals: the University of Toronto Law Journal; the Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence; the Melbourne Journal of International Law, the Netherland Journal of Private International Law, and the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law. He has presented his work at conferences in Canada (Osgoode Hall Law School & McMaster University), the UK (King’s College London) and the USA (Duke Law School & Yale Law School). Sagi is also a winner of the 2012 American Society of International Law Prize for the best article on conflict of laws.

Research Project: What’s Wrong with the Better Law Approach?

Theresa Reinold is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). She holds a PhD in Political Science and is especially interested in issues that lie at the intersection of International Relations and International Law. Prior to joining the WZB, she was a research assistant at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and a postdoctoral research fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt. She has also been a visiting student/scholar at UPenn, Yale, and Harvard. Her research interests include IR-theory, public international law, and comparative regionalism. Her current research explores how global rule of law scripts travel to the African context, how they are “vernacularized” by regional and subregional actors, and to what extent these processes of norm vernacularization in the global periphery feed back to the center.

She may be contacted at [email protected] .

Research Project: The Rule of Law and African Regionalism

Paolo Saguato is a Senior Research Fellow at the Genoa Center for Law and Finance, Italy. In 2013 he completed a Ph.D. in Business, Private and International Law at the University of Genoa, defending a thesis on credit derivatives regulation before and after the financial crisis.

He holds a JD summa cum laude from the University of Genoa. He obtained his LLM at Yale Law School, where he was Fulbright Scholar and senior editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation. During his PhD he was Research and Teaching Assistant in Business Law and Financial Markets; he was visiting researcher at St. John’s College – University of Oxford with a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship; and he attended courses in economics, finance and law at the London School of Economics; Gerzensee Study Centre in Bern, Switzerland; House of Finance - Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. He is Academic Member of ECGI (European Corporate Governance Institute), Member of the EFLN (European Financial Law Network) and member of PEPP (Program in European Private Law for Postgraduates).

His current researches mainly focuses on financial derivative contracts (specially equity and credit derivatives) and their regulation in the US and in the EU, looking at the dynamics of international financial regulation and the trade-off between private and public regulation. At NYU he will be working on a research project on global financial regulation.

Research Project: A New Approach to Global Financial Market Regulation: the Shadow Banking System

Michal Saliternik has recently completed her doctoral studies in the Direct PhD Program at Tel-Aviv University Law School, from which she also received her LLB ( magna cum laude ). Her dissertation examines the international regulation of peace processes from theoretical and doctrinal perspectives. Michal's main research interests include international legal theory, political theory, international negotiation, international conflict resolution, and post-conflict transitions. Her research has led to several presentations and publications, including a chapter on “The Treatment of Occupation Legislation by Courts in Liberated Territories” (with Eyal Benvenisti), in Edda Kristjánsdóttir, Andre Nollkaemper and Cedric Ryngaert (eds.), International Law in Domestic Courts: Rule of Law Reform in Post-Conflict States (Intersentia, 2012). Michal received several grants and awards for her doctoral research, among them from the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies, the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, and the Institute for Diplomacy and Regional Cooperation at Tel-Aviv University.

Prior to her doctoral studies, Michal worked as researcher and project director in two influential Israeli think tanks, the Economic Cooperation Foundation and the Geneva Initiative , where she focused on the problems of the Palestinian refugees and absentees’ property. She also served as a teaching assistant at the Tel-Aviv University Law School in the areas of tort law and contract law. Michal clerked at the Israel State Attorney Offices in the High Court of Justice Department in Jerusalem. As a Global Research Fellow at NYU Law School, Michal will explore feasible strategies for implementing procedural justice standards (e.g., participation, transparency and reason-giving) in peace negotiations.

Research Project: Procedural Justice in Peace Negotiations

Judit Sándor is Professor in the Departments of Political Science, Legal Studies and Gender Studies at the Central European University (CEU), Budapest. She has been teaching graduate international students for twenty years. She passed the bar exam in Hungary, practiced law at Simmons & Simmons in London, and received fellowships at McGill (Montreal), Stanford (Palo Alto), and the Maison de sciences de l’homme (Paris). In 1996 she received her PhD in law and political science. She was one of the founders of the first Patients' Right Organizations (‘Szószóló’) in Hungary, has been a member of the Hungarian Science and Research Ethics Council, and is currently a member of the Hungarian Human Reproduction Commission.

She has participated in various national and international standard-setting and legislative projects in the field of biomedical law. In 2004-2005, she served as Chief of the Bioethics Section at UNESCO. She has published seven books in the area of human rights and biomedical law. Her works have appeared in several languages, including Hungarian, English, French and Portuguese. Since September 2005, she is a founding director of the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB) at the Central European University. She has completed ten European research projects funded by the European Commission in the fields of biobanks, genetic data, stem cell research, organ transplantation and human reproduction.

Research Project: Commodification of The Human Body - Global Challenges To Biomedical Law

Paul Scott is a Senior Lecturer in the Law Faculty at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has first degrees in law and economics and a Masters specialising in competition law. He teaches competition law, commercial law and the law of contract. His primary research focus is in competition law and has published a number of articles in the area. In 2013 he has co-authored “Guide to Competition Law” (LexisNexis, 2013).

Research Project: A Positive and Normative Analysis of the Influence of United States and  European Antitrust Law and Scholarship on New Zealand Competition Law

Sandesh Sivakumaran Global Research Fellow United Kingdom

Sandesh Sivakumaran is Associate Professor and Reader in Public International Law at the University of Nottingham School of Law. His research interests are in the area of general public international law, particularly international human rights, international humanitarian law and international criminal law.   He is the author of The Law of Non-International Armed Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2012) and co-editor of International Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2 ed, 2013). He is a member of the board of editors of the Leiden Journal of International Law , the Journal of International Criminal Justice and the Human Rights Law Review . His work has been awarded the Giorgio La Pira Prize, the Antonio Cassese Prize and the Francis Lieber Prize.   Sandesh advises and acts as expert for a range of states, international organizations and non-governmental organizations. He has also worked at the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the Special Court for Sierra Leone.

Research Project: Conceptualizing an International Disaster Response Law

Dr. Richard Stacey (South Africa) is the Director of Research at the Center for Constitutional Transitions at NYU Law. He graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, with degrees in political philosophy and law, and served as law clerk to Justice Kate O’Regan and Justice Bess Nkabinde at the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He has taught courses in political theory, constitutional law, administrative law and human rights at the University of the Witwatersrand, the University of Cape Town and CUNY Law School. He serves as co-editor of the multi-author reference work Constitutional Law of South Africa, to which he has contributed chapters on socio-economic rights and executive authority, and his work has appeared in a number of books and journals of law and political theory. His current research focuses on whether the law, and in particular the concept of the rule of law, is meaningful and useful in efforts to fulfil the right to water.

Between 2005 and 2010 he acted as an advisor on administrative law to the South African Department of Justice, and has advised the South African Parliament on matters of legislative drafting. In 2009, he acted as a consultant to Kenya’s Committee of Experts on Constitutional Review.

As Research Director at the Center for Constitutional Transitions at NYU Law, Richard coordinates international networks of researchers and scholars as part of the research projects the Center has under way or in development, manages the Center’s research outputs, and contributes to the Center’s clinical and expert support for constitutional transitions around the world (learn more at constitutionaltransitions.org).

Research Project: The Rule of Law and the Role of the Courts in the Pursuit of Social Justice

Aisling Swaine completed her doctorate at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland where she is also currently a Visiting Fellow.  Previously, Aisling spent over seven years working full-time in conflict-affected and fragile states (Kosovo, Burundi, Timor-Leste and Darfur, Sudan) for international NGOs and the United Nations, and an additional seven years as an independent consultant and has spent time in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa in this regard.

Aisling will join George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs as Associate Professor of Practice on Women, Security and Development in January 2014.

Aisling has authored several academic and policy publications on issues relating to gender violence, women, peace and security and gender and humanitarian action.  Aisling continues to consult globally to the United Nations, international donors and NGOs.  Aisling is also a Senior Gender Adviser on the United Nations IASC Gender Capacity Roster.

Aisling’s research explores violence against women related to conflict, exploring connections between the peak in violence that women experience in conflict and the wider spectrum of violence that women experience before and after conflict, with a focus on understanding international legal approaches to gendered violence within post-conflict transition.

Research Project: Making Transition Transformational for Women: An Analysis of Gender Violence Across Pre, During and Post-Conflict Contexts

Jacob Weinrib graduated in 2013 from the Combined JD/PhD Program in Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto.  His dissertation is entitled: “Authority, Justice, and Public Law: A Unified Theory.”  The dissertation formulates an integrated theory of the juridical relationship between the individual and the state.  Whereas competing theories reduce this relationship to either the sum of norms enacted through the contingent exercise of public authority or the timeless demands of justice, the dissertation argues that when authority and justice are appropriately conceived and justified, they are neither antithetical virtues of opposing theoretical frameworks nor isolated notions. Instead, authority and justice are the mutually implicating principles of a legal system: the right of rulers to exercise public authority is always accompanied by a duty to govern justly; the right of the ruled to just governance presupposes the presence of publicly authoritative institutions. This framework offers both a powerful alternative to the established positions in contemporary legal philosophy and an innovative justification of rights-based constitutional democracy.  

Jacob’s research interests include the philosophy of law, constitutional theory, and comparative constitutional law.  His articles have appeared in Law and Philosophy, The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Kantian Review, and The Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy .  His articles can be accessed here .  He is the recipient of numerous prizes, awards, and fellowships, including the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship awarded by the Social Science and Humanities Resource Council of Canada.  His CV can be viewed here . 

As a Global Research Fellow, Jacob’s research project draws on his unified theory of public law to illuminate and justify the distinctive institutional arrangements and doctrinal features common to constitutional democracies around the world.  

Research Project: The Theory and Practice of Modern Constitutional Law

2012-2013 Academic Year

Professor Beširević is also a member of the Board of Directors of the European Public Law Organization, a member of the Pardon Committee appointed by the President of the Republic of Serbia and a Research Associate at the CEU Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine, Budapest. Her previous posts include Research Coordinator at the CEU Center for Human Rights, Senior Diplomat and Head of the Consular Department at the Embassy of Serbia in Hungary, Staff Attorney at the Constitutional and Legislative Policy Institute affiliated with the Open Society Fund and CEU in Budapest, and Senior Legal Adviser at the Ministry of Justice of the former Yugoslavia.

Research Project: The Politics of the Constitutional Court in Serbia

The title of her dissertation is “Empirical Analysis of Secondary Line Price Discrimination According to the Antitrust Law". In her dissertation, Hagit uses a new methodology which she developed based on empirical research of court files using electronic databases. Her doctorate was conducted under the supervision of Professor David Gilo, TAU Law faculty who was recently appointed as the Head of the Israeli Antitrust Authority. Her recent article got published in the Oxfords' Journal of Competition Law and Economics. Her research is currently of utmost importance considering the emergence of the controversy around competitiveness in Israeli economy.

Along with her research work, Hagit serves as a lecturer at Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Law. Her course - Contracts and Competition Law deals with antitrust and contract law issues relating to contractual relationships between corporations. In light of her academic achievements, Hagit was awarded a Meitar Fellowship, and she was awarded as the 2011 doctorate representative of the Law and Economic workshop in Siena – Toronto -Tel Aviv law and economic workshop. She was invited to present her doctorate thesis in faculty workshops at Tel Aviv University, Haifa University and Hebrew University and The Israeli Law and Economic Association 2011 yearly conference.

Research Project: Using Secondary Line Price Discrimination to Prevent Free Ride – Empirical Research

Lorenzo Casini is an Associate Professor at the University Sapienza of Rome, where he teaches Town and Country Planning Law and Cultural Property Law at the Faculty of Architecture since 2002. He also teaches Legislation on Cultural Heritage and Landscape in the PhD Program in Management and Development of Cultural Heritage at the IMT-Institute for Advanced Studies (Lucca, Italy).

After graduating in Law cum laude in 1999, he obtained a PhD in European and Comparative Administrative Law from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2004. From 2008-2009 he was a Research Fellow here at NYU for the Global Administrative Project. He is currently serving as a law clerk to Justice Professor Sabino Cassese at the Constitutional Court of Italy. He is also Secretary general of the Institute for Research on Public Administration (IRPA).

He has written over 70 articles on cultural property, urban planning law, and comparative and global administrative law. His publications include three books: on Town and Country Planning ( L’equilibrio degli interessi nel governo del territorio , Giuffrè, 2005), on Global Sports Law ( Il diritto globale dello sport , 2010), and on the Globalization of Cultural Properties (editor, La Globalizzazione dei beni culturali , il Mulino, 2010). He is co-editor of Global Administrative Law: Cases, Materials, Issues (2nd edition, 2008; 3rd edition 2012) and special editor (with Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Benedict Kingsbury) of the Symposium on "Global Administrative Law in the Operations of International Organizations", 6:2 International Organizations Law Review (2009).

Research Project: Public Law and Private Law Beyond the State

At ESCP Europe, he is the co-director of the Law & Finance major, that offers students an unparalleled combination of legal and financial education. Prior to joining ESCP Europe, he was an assistant professor at University of Paris XI – Jean Monnet where he taught Private International Law, Business Law, International Business Law. He continues to lecture International Arbitration at the Sorbonne Law School on Doctoral programs.

David Chekroun was involved in workshops with legal experts that aimed to improve the systems of Judicial Review in Civil and Criminal proceedings of several European countries. He trained Afghan judges and legal experts at the Max Planck Institute & the Institut International of Paris. He trains qualified Judges at the French National School for the Judiciary on the Common law system and organizes conferences on Criminal & Civil justice in Europe.He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Think Tank « Conventions » from the French Ministery of Foreign and European Affairs & the Institut des hautes études sur la justice. He is a member of the Sorbonne Law School Institute of judicial studies & the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.

He is admitted to the Paris Bar and worked in the Litigation and Arbitration department of Herbert Smith LLP. In addition he was Scholar-in-Residence to the International Arbitration Group at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (London office). He also advised, as a legal consultant, law firms and companies in international arbitration proceedings in the field of finance and energy.

His research interests are mainly, International Business Law, Law & Finance, Judicial Studies, Energy Law and Arbitration Law. He completed his Doctorate in Law at on the “arbitral imperium” and he is the editor-in-chief of the Energy law section of the International Business Law Journal / IBLJ. He is currently writing a book on “International Business Dispute Resolution in France.”

Research Project: Transnational Discovery Conflicts: Will the EU Data Protection Reform Proposals Change the Balance?

More recently, she was in charge of the International Department of the Brazilian competition authority CADE, where she has previously held the position of Chief of Staff. She also worked as a Bluebook Trainee at the European Commission, DG Competition. She has previously worked as an attorney for the second largest Intellectual Property law firm of Latin America, as well as branch manager of a law firm in the city of Rio de Janeiro. While living in Taiwan she has worked as legal counsel for a Taiwanese biotechnology company.

Her fields of research are International Economic Law, Global Economic Governance, Intellectual Property Rights, Competition Policy, Health and Development. She has published a book on international aspects of competition laws, as well as papers in specialized journals in Brazil and abroad. Her current research focuses on soft power dynamics at various multilateral organizations to advance intellectual property rights enforcement.

Research Project: How to Reshape Treaties without Negotiations: Intellectual Property Enforcement as a Case Study

Brian Flanagan Hauser Research Scholar Fulbright Scholar in Law Ireland Dr Brian Flanagan is a graduate of University College Dublin, Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) and Oxford University.  His work on legal interpretation and judicial decision-making has been published in the  International & Comparative Law Quarterly , the  Oxford Journal of Legal Studies , the  Journal of Moral Philosophy  and  Ratio Juris .  While a Hauser Research Scholar, Dr Flanagan will undertake research into the notion of collective legislative intentionality and the role of conceptual analysis in general jurisprudence.  Dr Flanagan is a lecturer at the School of Law, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

http://law.nuim.ie/staff/dr-brian-flanagan

Ariel Katz is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, where he holds the Innovation Chair in Electronic Commerce and the Director of the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy. Professor Katz received his LLB and LLM from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his SJD from the University of Toronto. His general area of research involves economic analysis of competition law and intellectual property law, with allied interests in electronic commerce, pharmaceutical regulation, the regulation of international trade, and particularly the intersection of these fields. Prior to joining the University of Toronto Professor Katz was a staff attorney at the Israeli Antitrust Authority. While there, he litigated several merger appeals and restrictive arrangements cases before the Antitrust Tribunal and negotiated regulatory settlements. Professor Katz currently teaches courses on intellectual property, cyberlaw, and the intersection of competition law and intellectual property.

Research Project: The Rebirth of Fair Dealing: From the University of London to the University of British Columbia (and from Oxbridge to Georgia State)

Fascinated by the first constitutional transition of the 21st century in the region, Gianluca contributed to the debate on the new Bahraini constitution and was invited to observe the first parliamentary elections in thirty years. Gianluca has followed Bahrain ever since, and has recently published a comparative study of the role of parliament in 1973-75 and after the 2002 constitution in an edited book titled: Political Change in the Arab Gulf states: Stuck in Transition (Lynne Rienner, 2011).

Asked to be the rapporteur on constitutional provisions on shari‘ah to the Second Conference of the International Consortium on Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS) in 2011, Gianluca has started developing a coherent comparative overview of such provisions within the overall trajectory of legal systems in Muslim-majority countries. Since 25 January 2011, Gianluca has offered special courses on the constitutional transition in Egypt and has actively participated in the public debate over a variety of issues associated with the transition and constitutional design.

Research Project: (Re)arrangements of šariʿah and Secular Law in Constitutional Transitions

Niels Petersen Hauser Research Scholar DAAD Visiting Fellow Emile Noel Fellow (courtesy appointment) Germany Niels Petersen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. His main areas of research are international law, comparative constitutional law and constitutional theory. He holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of Frankfurt and an M.A. in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences from Columbia University. Furthermore, he worked as a legal advisor for the GIZ Legal Advisory Service in Beijing in 2005/06 and was a Visiting Professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin in spring 2012. At NYU, Niels will be working on a project on the  Rationality of balancing in constitutional adjudication . The aim of the project is to compare different approaches of constitutional courts with regard to the resolution of conflicting constitutional values.

Research Project: Making Sense of Discrimination

Research Project: Atrocity, Commerce and Accountability: The International Criminal Liability of Corporate Actors

He works in the fields of energy law, environmental and natural resources law, infrastructure and urban planning law, and law for technology, in particular biotechnology regulation. He obtained his B.S. and LLM at Peking University (1988 and 1992), and PhD at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1999).

Before he joined Tsinghua University Law School, he had worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University (1999-2001). During 2002-2003, he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School and Harvard University Center for the Environment.

Research Project: Legal Aspects of Climate Change: Is There any Inspiration from the US and Europe for the Development of Carbon Market in China?

During his academic career, Nicolo has been an exchange student at Universidad Abat Oliba and UC Berkeley, a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School and a research assistant at the College of Europe in Bruges. He has also gained practical experience as a trainee at the European Commission (Directorate General for Competition) and at the Cabinet of Judge Moavero Milanesi at the EU General Court.

His project as a Global Research Fellow concerns a comparison on the role of presumptions in WTO and competition law.

Research Project: Safeguarding Due Process in Presumptive Adjudication

2011-2012 Academic Year

Nicholas Bamforth Senior Global Research Fellow UK Nicholas Bamforth is a tenured member of the Law faculty at Oxford University, where he is Fellow in Law at The Queen's College. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of constitutional and administrative law (including comparative constitutional law), legal theory, human rights law and sexuality and law. His two most recent books are Patriarchal Religion, Sexuality and Gender: A Critique of New Natural Law (with David A.J. Richards, Cambridge University Press 2008) and Discrimination Law: Theory and Context (with Maleiha Malik and Colm O'Cinneide, Thomson/Sweet & Maxwell 2008). During 2011-2, he will be working on a book on English human rights law (with Laura Hoyano) for publication by Oxford University Press, on a single-authored book on the public law-private law distinction, and on a project on imperialism, sexuality and law, with David Richards. He also has an active interest in higher education policy, academic freedom and university governance, and has published in the Times Higher Education, Times and Guardian on topics within this field, as well as serving as a member of Oxford's University Council between 2006 and 2011.

Georgios Dimitropoulos completed his Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg, Germany in 2011 under the supervision of Prof. Eberhard Schmidt-Aßmann with the grade summa cum laude. The title of his thesis is “Zertifizierung und Akkreditierung im Internationalen Vewaltungsverbund” (“Certification and accreditation in the context of international integrated administration”) and his monograph with the same title will be published by Mohr Siebeck Publishers. Georgios’ doctoral research was supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Georgios studied law at the Universities of Athens and Heidelberg. He also holds an LL.M. from the University of Heidelberg. In 2008, he obtained the Academy of European Public Law Diploma from the European Public Law Organization (EPLO).During his Ph.D. studies, Georgios was a research assistant to Prof. Schmidt-Aßmann at the Institute for German and European Administrative Law of the University of Heidelberg and at the interdisciplinary research institute FEST e.V., Heidelberg. He also performed independent research at the library of the European Commission in Brussels and the Italian Constitutional Court. Georgios has published in the fields of Global and EU administrative law and the theory of public law in English, German and Greek. During his stay at NYU Law School, Georgios will be conducting research on peer reviews of administrative bodies in global and EU law, focusing on the fields of conformity assessment, finance, nuclear safety and OECD law. He will be furthermore exploring the rising phenomenon of global administrative self-regulation. Prof. Richard Stewart will be his sponsor at NYU.

Tim Dornis Global Fellow from Practice & Government Germany

Tim Dornis has been a judge at the District Court of Stuttgart (Germany) from 2006 until 2011. He has recently been appointed as a Professor of Private Law, International Private and Economic Law, and Comparative Law at the Leuphana University of Lueneburg (Germany). Tim graduated from the University of Tuebingen (Germany) in 1999 and 2005 (J.D. equivalent and Ph.D.). In addition, he received degrees from Columbia University School of Law/New York (LL.M., James Kent Scholar) and from Stanford Law School (J.S.M.). Before becoming a judge, Tim practiced law in an international law firm. He is also admitted as an attorney and counselor in New York State. The focus of Tim’s research lies on the fields of conflict of laws, European and international economic law, as well as IP law and unfair competition protection. Recent publications also include an economic analysis of contract law and non-contractual obligations. At NYU, Tim will work on a historical-comparative, doctrinal, and economic analysis of United States and European trademark and unfair competition conflicts law.

Libin Li Global Fellow from Practice & Government China

Libin Li is a Chinese attorney and labor dispute arbitrator in China. His primary specialty is in Chinese labor and employment law, corporate law. In 2005, he published "Employment Contract Implemented for Third Party". In September, 2010, he made a presentation entitled "Labor Risks on Multi-national Corporate Governance in China" in Nagoya, Japan. In 2010, he participated in a legal project relating to the social relief law of Guangdong province at the Sun Yat Sen University School of Law. Therefore, He was appointed as a part time researcher in 2011.He obtained a Juries Doctor degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong school of law in 2008 and a Bachelor's degree from the Sun Yat Sen University School of law in 2002. And in 2010, he studied trade secret law at the Nagoya University School of law. The topic of his research at NYU is "the Information Disclosure for Collective Bargaining". Little attention on the theoretical research has bogged down collective bargaining in the workplace in China. His research is aimed at reconstructing and improving the current information disclosure mechanisms.

2010-2011 Academic Year

Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt is Professor of European Law and Director of the Institute of European Law at the Faculty of Law of Stockholm University. She holds an LLM degree from Sofia University, Bulgaria, an LLM in International, European and Comparative Law from the European University Institute (EUI), Florence and a doctorate in private law from the Faculty of Law of Stockholm University (2003). Earlier appointments include the position of Deputy Secretary of the Committee of Legal Affairs and Human Rights at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg (1994-1995), and Senior Lecturer at Örebro University (2005-2007) . She has been Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich, and a Jean Monnet and STINT Fellow at the EUI, Florence (2005/2006).

Antonina has numerous publications in the area of European and comparative consumer law, competition law and intellectual property law. Her PhD thesis "Fair Trading Law in Flux?" analyzed the institutional legacies of Swedish and German commercial practices law and the differential impact of European integration on this area of law and regulation. Subsequent publications were devoted to the eastward enlargement of the European Union and its role for market and institutional reform in the accession countries from Central and Eastern Europe. More recent research projects and publications have addressed the choice between public and private enforcement in consumer law, theoretical and methodological aspects of comparative law (co-editor of New Directions in Comparative Law with Edward Elgar, 2010), as well as European and global governance of intellectual property rights. At the NYU she will work on a project approaching European copyright law from an institutional perspective that focuses on actor participation and institutional design

Senior Global Research Fellow

Switzerland

Andreas Heinemann is Professor of Commercial, Economic and European Law at the University of Zurich and Permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Lausanne. After having studied economics and law he participated at the 'Cycle International' of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Paris. He passed his bar exam in Berlin and received his PhD in Law and his habilitation (postdoctoral qualification) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Munich. He is member of the board of the Europa Institute Zurich, of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) and of the Antitrust Committee of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR). The focus of his research lies on European and International Economic law with special interest in antitrust and intellectual property law. Recent publications deal with the private enforcement of competition law (Co-Editor of the project 'The Enforcement of Competition Law in Europe' within the Trento Project on the Common Core of European Private Law, and consultant to the Swiss Government), the European Internal Market, cartel procedure, the role of intellectual property rights in merger control and generally the particularities of the IT sector. At NYU, he will work on the public control of cross-border M&A between the poles of protectionism and legitimate regulation.

Christian Hofmann Global Research Fellow Germany Christian Hofmann received his “Habilitation” (postdoctoral degree qualifying to lecture at law schools) from Humboldt University to Berlin in 2009, his PhD and his LLM from Martin Luther University Halle/Wittenberg in 2000 and his law degree from the University of Freiburg in 1998. In 2009 and 2010 he was a visiting professor at Goethe University in Frankfurt, at the University of Cologne and at Vilnius University (Lithuania). He worked as an assistant professor from 2004-2006 and again from 2008 to 2009 at Humboldt University to Berlin and was at the same time the assistant editor of the European law journal “European Review of Contract Law”. From 2002 to 2004 he was a research and teaching assistant at the University of Saarbruecken and from 2000 to 2002 a judicial clerk at the district court of Saarbruecken. From 2006 to 2008 he focused on US law as a visiting scholar and Humboldt Fellow at UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall). His main research interest is in Company Law, Banking Law and Securities Regulation, Contract Law, Antitrust Law and European Law. He published a book on cashless payment systems, and his second book on company law is in print. He has published numerous papers in various German and European law journals and contributed to several books.

Tsvi Kahana

Global Research Fellow Israel Tsvi Kahana is an Associate Professor of Law at Queen?s University in Kingston, Ontario. His research areas include legislative studies, constitutional theory, and comparative constitutional law, and he has published and taught in these areas. He is the co-editior of The Least Examined Branch: Legislature in The Constitutional State (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Feminist Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). At NYU, he will be working on a project examining the constitutional performance of Canadian legislatures in relation to various constitutional matters. Professor Kahana received his doctorate from the University of Toronto. Prior to assuming his current position at Queen?s University, he taught or held research appointments at the University of Alberta, Tel Aviv University, the University of Toronto and Yale University.

Rafael Leal-Arcas

Global Research Fellow

United Kingdom

Dr Rafael Leal-Arcas is a senior lecturer in International Economic Law and European Union Law, Queen Mary University of London (Centre for Commercial Law Studies), United Kingdom. Author of more than 60 publications on international trade law, WTO law, international investment law, international environmental law, and EU law. Among his publications are the books International Trade and Investment Law: Multilateral, Regional and Bilateral Governance (Edward Elgar, 2010) and Theory and Practice of EC External Trade Law and Policy (Cameron May, 2008). For electronic access to some of his publications, see http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=327976

Member of the Madrid Bar, he has been a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center, Fellow at Georgetown’s Institute of International Economic Law, Fellow at the American Society of International Law, Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School, Visiting Doctoral Researcher at New York University School of Law, Fellow at the Australian National University, and Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. Dr Leal-Arcas completed his graduate legal education at Stanford, Columbia, the London School of Economics, and the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

Ola Mestad has been Professor of law at the University of Oslo, Norway, since 2000. He works mainly in contract law, oil and gas law, international economic law, company law, legal history and legal method. For ten years he was in private practice as a lawyer and partner of the law firm Bugge, Arentz-Hansen & Rasmussen (BA-HR) in Oslo. i.a. as head of the oil and gas law group of the firm. Previously, he has been research fellow at Leopold-Wenger –Institut fur Rechtsgeschichte at the University of Munich and Recruitment Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Since its inception in 2004 he has been a member of the Council on Ethics for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund – Global, see http://www.regjeringen.no/en/sub/styrer-rad-utvalg/ethics_council.html?id=434879. The Fund is a government owned investment vehicle with a capital of app. USD 430 Billion. This is part of the background for the research that he wants to do at NYU on Emerging regimes governing multinational corporations and other related corporate law issues. Mestad is one of the editors of  Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations  (with Gro Nystuen & Andreas Follesdal), forthcoming, Cambridge UP, 2011.

Mestad is also an ad hoc judge at the EFTA Court in Luxembourg and Member of the Panel of Conciliators, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), Washington, DC. He chairs the National Research Committee for the Bicentennial of the Norwegian Constitution in 2014 and has recently been appointed as a leader (together with Professor Dag Michalsen) of an international research group on The Transformation of International Law and Norwegian Sovereignty in 1814 the at Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo for the academic year 2012-2013. More information:  http://www.jus.uio.no/nifs/personer/vit/olame/

Christoph G. Paulus is professor of law at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Germany since 1994 – holding a chair for Civil Law, Civil Procedure Law, Insolvency Law and ancient Roman Law. Before that he was teaching i.a. at the university of Heidelberg and of Saarbrücken. He had studied law at the university of Munich and has done his LLM at the University of California in Berkeley. Being an expert primarily in insolvency law, Prof. Paulus has worked several times as a consultant of the IMF and of the World Bank. Moreover, since 2006, he worked as an adviser of the German delegation on the UNCITRAL insolvency law sessions.

Maxi Scherer Global Fellow from Practice & Government Germany

Dr. Maxi Scherer is an international arbitration and litigation lawyer and Counsel in Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr’s Dispute Resolution team in London.  Her practice focuses on complex multi-jurisdictional disputes.  She is a member of the Paris bar and a solicitor (England and Wales).  She graduated from University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, and University of Cologne, Germany, and obtained her PhD at the University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne with highest honors. Dr. Scherer teaches International Arbitration and Litigation, International Private Law, European Civil Procedure and Comparative Law.  She is an adjunct professor at SciencesPo Law School Paris, Georgetown CLTS, University of Melbourne, Pepperdine Law School and University of Fribourg.  Previous teaching activities include Queen Mary University London, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Business School ESCP-EAP Europe, University of Basel, University of Versailles and University of Paris 10 Nanterre. Maxi Scherer was a scholar of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstifung des Deutschen Volkes) and has been admitted as a member of the French Comity on Private International Law (Comité Français de Droit International Privé) and the French Comparative Law Society (Société de Législation Comparé). Dr. Scherer’s research focuses on conflicts of law, international arbitration and judgement issues.  She will examine the extraterritorial effect of judgments setting aside and recognizing international arbitral awards.  Due to the multiplication of global lawsuits and the enhanced risk of parallel litigation or arbitration proceedings it is important to clearly define the extraterritorial effect of judgments and awards rendered in an international context.

Josephine Van Zeben

Hauser Research Scholar Netherlands Josephine van Zeben is in the final stages of her PhD research at the University of Amsterdam under the supervision of Prof. Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Prof. Marc Pallemaerts. Her research uses law & economics methodology to consider the creation, implementation and enforcement of environmental regulation at different regulatory levels – global, regional and local – and the changing role of national governments in this context. Before starting her PhD research, Josephine obtained a B.A. in Social Sciences from University College Utrecht (Hons.), an LL.B in Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh and an LL.M in European Private Law at the University of Amsterdam. During her studies, Josephine was a research assistant to several professors at the University of Amsterdam and preformed independent research for Oxford University. She was also a visiting researcher at the Economic Development Foundation (Iktisadi Kalkinma Vakfi) in Istanbul during the summer of 2008. She also attended courses at the University Institute in Florence, the Gerzensee Institute in Florence and spent a semester studying at the University of Bologna. Since starting her PhD, she has published extensively in international journals, including the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, the Review of European Community & International Environmental Law and the Carbon & Climate Law Review.

Ralph Wilde Senior Global Research Fellow UK

Dr Ralph Wilde is a member of the Faculty of Laws at University College London, University of London. He works in the fields of international law and international relations, and his current research focuses on the administration of territory by international organizations and foreign states, the concept of trusteeship in international law and public policy, and the extraterritorial application of human rights norms. His book addressing the first two of these topics, International Territorial Administration: How Trusteeship and the Civilizing Mission Never Went Away was published by OUP in 2008 and won the Certificate of Merit (book prize) of the American Society of International Law in 2009. At the International Law Association (ILA) Ralph is a member of the international Executive Council and the International Committee on Human Rights Law, and serves as Rapporteur of the Study Group on UN Reform and Joint Honorary Secretary of the British Branch. He was formerly a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. More information:  www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/wilde

Fuad Zarbiyev Global Research Fellow Azerbaijan Fuad Zarbiev holds an LLM from Harvard Law School (2010), a Ph.D in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva (2009), the Diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law (2002) and the Diploma on International and Comparative Human Rights Law from the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg (2004). He is the author of various publications in international law journals and books on general international law, theory of international law and human rights. He worked for a number of international-law-related cases in Switzerland and before the European Court of Human Rights. He also served as Legal Advisor to the Costa Rican Government before the International Court of Justice in the Dispute regarding Navigational and Related Rights case. At NYU School of Law he will focus on « Judicial Activism in International Law.

2009-2010 Academic Year

Global Research Fellow Pakistan

Maurizia De Bellis Global Research Fellow Italy Maurizia De Bellis is tenured Assistant Professor in Administrative Law at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. She also teaches Administrative Sciences at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. After graduating in Law cum laude (2002) at the University of Pisa, she received a Diploma in Law Studies (2003) from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and went on to obtain a PhD in Law and Economics (2007) in University of Rome “La Sapienza”. In 2005 she has been Jemolo Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University, and from 2006 to 2008 she has been research fellow at the University of Siena. In 2008, she obtained the Academy of European Public Law Diploma from the European Public Law Organization (EPLO). She is a Fellow of the Institute for Research on Public Administration (IRPA). From 2005 to 2008, she participated in a European research group on “The evolution of a polycentric administrative space”, within the Connex Network, Mannheim (Germany). She’s working on a book about global financial standards, near completion. She has written essays and articles on regulation of public services, with particular reference to energy and education. For the book Global Administrative Law: Cases, Materials, Issues (2nd edition, 2008), she wrote about international accounting and auditing standard setting, credit rating agencies and due process in WTO case law. Currently, her research interests focus on private regulation in the environmental field.

Paula Gaido

Argentina Paula Gaido is Assistant Professor at Cordoba University in Cordoba, Argentina. She obtained her LL.M in Fundamental Rights at Carlos III University in Madrid. She visited as researcher and visiting scholar Christian Albrecht University in Kiel, Germany, and Genova University, Italy, and Columbia University. She has edited three books: La pretensión de corrección del derecho. La polémica Bulygin/Alexy sobre la relación entre derecho y moral, Externado University, Bogotá, 2001; Relevancia normativa en la justificación de las decisiones judiciales. El debate Bayón/Rodríguez sobre la derrotabilidad de normas jurídicas, Externado University, Bogotá, 2003; Una discusión sobre la teoría del derecho: Joseph Raz, Robert Alexy, Eugenio Bulygin, Marcial Pons, Madrid, 2007. She has translated into Spanish articles by Robert Alexy, Joseph Raz and Brian Bix. At the end of 2008 she concluded the writing of her doctoral thesis, entitled “Law’s Normative Claim. A Conceptual Debate”, at Cordoba University. In this work, she explores and criticizes the answers given by Robert Alexy and Joseph Raz to the question about the normativity of law, and evaluates the insight of their philosophical approaches. Her research activity at NYU will be focused on the study of the impact of these different conceptions of law on recent human right cases. Her main purpose is to re-examine the underlying rationality of these decisions, and critically evaluate their legal character.

Wolfgang Kerber is a professor of economics and holds the chair of Economic Policy at the Department of Business Administration and Economics at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. After receiving his PhD at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg, he was director at the Walter-Eucken-Institut in Freiburg and professor of economics at the Ruhr-University Bochum. He was a visiting fellow at George Mason University (Fairfax), University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). His general research interests are competition policy, evolutionary and innovation economics, institutional economics, law and economics, and European integration. In the last years his main fields of research are (1) European and international competition policy and (2) multi-level legal systems and regulatory competition. He has written extensively in both German and English. His most recent publications include articles in  European Journal of Law and Economics ,  World Competition , and  Journal of Competition Law and Economics .

Richard Macrory is one of the most distinguished and experienced environmental lawyers in Europe , who has pioneered the development of the subject in the United Kingdom. He was a founding member and the first chairman of the UK Environmental Law Association in 1989, now the country’s leading environmental law group spanning both practitioners and academics. He was the first editor of the Journal of Environmental Law (Oxford University Press), a post he continued for almost twenty years. In 1991 he was appointed the UK’s first professor of environmental law, and in 2008 was awarded an Hon. Q.C. for his contribution to the development of environmental law. Professor Macrory read law at Oxford and qualified as a barrister in 1974. For a number of years he was the London in-house lawyer for Friends of the Earth Ltd before moving to Imperial College of Science and Technology where he worked with environmental scientists to develop interdisciplinary research and teaching in the field of the environment. He was professor of law and director of the Environmental Change Unit, Oxford University 1994-5, and in 1999 moved to his current position at University College, where he is professor of environmental law and director of the Centre for Law and the Environment within the Law Faculty.

Moran Ofir Global Research Fellow Israel

Moran Ofir is a PhD candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Center for Rationality in its program for outstanding students. Moran holds both an LLB degree from the Hebrew University’s Law School, where she graduated magna cum laude, and an MBA in Finance from the Hebrew University, where she graduated summa cum laude and ranked first among all MBA honors students. Moran is completing her PhD in Law and Finance under the co-direction of Professor Uriel Procaccia and Professor Zvi Wiener. Her dissertation deals with “Investment in Financial Structured Products from a Rational Choice Perspective”. Moran’s main research interests are in Law and Finance, Law and Economics, Behavioral Finance, Corporate Law and Securities Law. Moran received several awards and scholarships, including the Kahneman Fellowship for outstanding doctoral students at the Center for Rationality. Moran is a lecturer in Introduction to Finance and Legal Aspects of Corporate Finance at The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Antonello Tancredi Global Emile Noel Fellow Italy Antonello Tancredi is a Full Professor of International Law in the School of Law of the University of Palermo. Since 2002, he has been scientific co-ordinator of the PhD Programme in EC Law, Department of Public Law, University of Palermo. He holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Napoli “Federico II”. Before joining the School of Law in Palermo, he worked at the University of Trento and Roma “La Sapienza”. He was several times a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institut, Heidelberg, Germany and was invited, inter alia, to deliver a training course on WTO law at the Chinese National School of Administration, in Beijing (April 2006). His research interests covers generally public international law and its relationship to EU law. His current research focuses on the denial of direct effect to the WTO law in the EC legal system as a matter of institutional balancing.

2008-2009 Academic Year

Nehal Bhuta Hauser Research Scholar Canada Nehal Bhuta , BA 1999 (Melbourne), LLB 1999 (Hons) (Melbourne), MA 2004 (Poli. Sci., New School for Social Research), LLM 2005 (NYU), is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He has previously worked with the International Justice Program of Human Rights Watch and as a consultant for the International Center for Transitional Justice in New York. His areas of interest are human rights law, humanitarian law, political theory and political economy. He is admitted to practice in Victoria, Australia, and has worked as a clerk in the Federal Court of Australia.

As a Hauser Research Scholar, he will be working on a book manuscript under contract for Columbia University Press, entitled "Between Power and Principle: International Law and Politics after Iraq". He will consider the extent to which the Iraq war and certain aspects of its aftermath may be considered a crucible for certain tensions and contradictory developments in the international legal order after 1989.

Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky Global Fellow from Practice & Government Argentina

Dr. Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky began his career in the private sector as attorney and legal consultant. At this time he also started contributing to NGOs like the Open Society Institute and Proconsumer. Since 2005 he has been working for the Argentina state. He played a leading role in the nationalization of the Buenos Aires water company (AySA), of which he was consequently appointed managing director representing the federal government. He was rapporteur of the Argentinean judge in the arbitral case “Impregilo v. Ente Binacional Yacyretá” in the International Chamber of Commerce, and later became the institutional coordinator of the defendant in this case. He is now working as a consultant to the National Defense Minister of his country. Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky has a Bachelor in law from the National University of Comahue (Río Negro, Patagonia, 1999) and an LL.M. in Corporate law from the Austral University (Buenos Aires, 2002). He received his Ph.D. Summa Cum Laude in “Legal and Economic Aspects of Corruption” at the University of Salamanca (Spain, 2007), and a European Doctorate after conducting his doctoral research at the Economic Department of the University of Vienna (2004/5). In his Ph.D. thesis Dr. Bohoslavsky focused on sovereign insolvency and abusive loans. He published several papers in refereed journals and in newspapers in Latin America and the US related to sovereign insolvency, foreign investments and international arbitration. He authored the forthcoming book Abusive Loans - Overindebtness of states, companies and consumers. At NYU he is working on institutional tools to implement the legal principle that creditors should adopt prudent and sound behavior when lending to sovereign debtors.  He explores furthermore the relation of this principle with the odious debt doctrine and with collective action clauses.

Tillman Braun Global Fellow from Government Germany

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, ‘North Africa, Near and Middle East’, Directorate-General for External Economic Policy, Berlin, Germany

Previously, at the Directorates-General for Economic Policy, for External Economic Policy and for Political Co-ordination, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Technology; at the Coordination Unit (Economic and External Economic Policy), Federal Foreign Office, Berlin; Personal Assistant to the Special Representative of the German Chancellor for negotiations on compensation to former forced laborers, Count Lambsdorff, Bonn, Berlin, Washington, USA; Adviser to a Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag.

First State Exam in Law [J.D. equivalent], Heidelberg University, as a scholar of the German National Scholarship Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and Second State Exam in Law [Bar exam equivalent], Higher Regional Court Munich;  Master of Public Administration , John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; Dr. iur., University of Cologne (‘ summa cum laude ’).

The result of his research as a  Global Fellow from Government  and  Deutsches Haus   Visiting Scholar  at New York University School of Law, New York, has been published as  “Braun, Globalization-driven Innovation: The Investor as a Partial Subject in Public International Law – An Inquiry into the Nature and Limits of Investor Rights –“, Jean Monnet Working Paper 04/13 (2013), New York University School of Law, New York .

Publications in International Investment Law and International Economic Law .  Lecturer on European and International Investment Law, Humboldt-University, Berlin , and University of Cologne, Germany.

Iris Canor Global Emile Noel Research Fellow Israel

Dr. Iris Canor received her LLB from Tel-Aviv University (Israel), her LLM from the College of Europe (Brugge, Belgium) and a Doctorate in law from the Europa-Institute (University of Saarland, Germany). She also held visiting positions at the Max-Planck Institute of Public International Law, Heidelberg (Germany), and Columbia Law School. She is currently teaching at the College of Management Law School in Israel and at the Europa-Institute in the University of Saarland, Germany. In addition she is a member of the executive committee of Concord (Research Center for Integration of International Law in Israel). Her fields of research and teaching include European law, human rights, public international law and private international law with a special emphasis on the interplay between public international law and private international law. She published inter alia on institutional aspects of European law, on questions of sovereignty and occupation, on diplomatic protection and the right to citizenship, and on theories of private international law.

Professor Dr.Díez-Ripollés is a full time Professor of Criminal Law at Málaga University in Spain, and Head of the Andalusian Institute of Criminology. He teaches courses on criminal Law. general part., particular crimes, and criminal justice policy. His publications comprise a wide range of topics, from criminal justice policy issues -such as the consolidation of the law and order approach in different countries, or cross-national comparisons on the criminal law-making process-, and criminology –such as urban planning corruption practices or drug offences prosecution enforcement-, to foundations of criminal law –e.g. methodological foundations of subjective elements of crime-, and particular crimes –mainly, drug offences, money laundering, assisted suicide and euthanasia or crimes against minors' safety. He has also published legal commentaries and handbooks on criminal law. general part, and particular crimes. He has taught and/or conducted research as Visiting Professor at the Universities of Freiburg, Switzerland and Mainz, Germany, and as Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. His research activity at NYU will be focused on “Criminal Justice Policy in Western Europe: The influence of the USA and Nordic European Criminal Justice Policy Approaches”.

Dr. Benjamin Geva is a Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He specializes in commercial, financial and banking law, particularly in payment and credit instruments, electronic banking and the regulation of the payment system. He obtained his LLB (cum laude) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1970) and his LLM and S.J.D. at Harvard. He held visiting positions, in the United States, at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, the University of Utah and Northwestern University as well as taught in the summer program of Duke university in Hong Kong; in Israel at Tel Aviv University; in Australia in Monash, Deakin and Melbourne Universities; and in France at the faculté de droit et de science politique d'Aix-Marseille. He was a Visitor at the law faculties of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England and at Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law, Hamburg, Germany. He practised with Blake, Cassels and Graydon in Toronto and under the IMF technical assistance program, has advised and drafted key financial sector legislation for the authorities of several countries, particularly, on missions for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Timor-Leste, and Sri Lanka. In Canada he has been on legislative drafting working groups in the areas of personal property security, securities transfers, and standby credits & independent guarantees. He has been on the Osgoode faculty since 1977. He is the founding editor in chief of the Banking and Finance Law Review (BFLR) and has written extensively in his areas of expertise, including a monograph on Financing Consumer Sales and Product Defences in Canada and the US (Toronto: Carswell, 1984), a treatise on the Law of Electronic Funds Transfer (New York: Matthew Bender, 1992, with annual updates with contributors to 2007) and a comparative law text on Bank Collections and Payment Transactions (Oxford: OUP, 2001). He is a member of various professional domestic and overseas committees and institutions involved in research and law reform. His current research is on the legal history of the payment order, negotiable instruments and funds transfers, and payment and settlement systems.

Dr. Xiuli Han received her LL.D. from Xiamen University in international law, P.R.C., in September of 2006. Because of her excellent performance during her PhD candidate studies, in July 2006 she became one of the faculty members at the Law School of Xiamen University. Currently, Dr Han is an Assistant Professor of International Law as well as a member of the Society of International Economic Law of China and the Society of International Law of China. She is also the editor of Chinese Journal of International Economic Law and a part-time attorney at the United Xinshi Law Firm in Xiamen City. Dr Han’s academic area focuses on international economic law and international environmental law. Within the field of international economic law she has published one monograph: "The Principle of Proportionality in WTO", and more than forty articles and book chapters, including articles in theChinese Journal of International Law and James Cook University Law Review, and translated the famous book "General Principles of Law as Applied by International Courts" and "Tribunals" written by Professor Bin Cheng. She won the research project entrusted by the Ministry of Justice of China in 2007. Dr Han’s recent interest is international environmental law issues. As a global research fellow at the NYU Law School, her research proposal is entitled “International Dispute Settlement Bodies and Environmental Protection from a Chinese Lawyer’s Perspective”.

Koichi Inamori has devoated a significant portion of his career to international human rights law, with a specific research interest in the interface of international and domestic law and how mechanisms for treaty enforcement can play a role in introducing international norms of human rights into domestic jurisprudence. His efforts have not been solely devoted to academics, as he has taken an active part in promotiong human rights, both at home and abroad, through various committees of his local bar association, the Aichi Bar Association, as well as with various committees of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA). Moreover, his past research activities as a graduate student and active membership in various human rights committees of the JFBA and the Aichi Bar Association place him in a strong position to the advancement of research in international human rights law, as well as to the learning environment of his future classmates.

Tally Kritzman will receive her PhD from Tel Aviv University School of Law's direct PhD Program. Her thesis was written on socio-economic refugees under the Supervision of Eyal Benvenisti. She completed her LLB (Cum Laude) at the Tel Aviv University School of Law.

Tally's main research and teaching interests are refugee law, immigrants rights and international human rights. She has taught at the Tel Aviv University School of Law, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Ramat Gan College. She has also been a part of the Refugee Rights Clinic in Tel Aviv.

Tally was a Fox International Fellow at the Yale Macmillan Center in the academic year of 2006-7, and received the Fulbright Doctoral Researchers Fellowship for that year. Tally also received the Yad Hanadiv Foundation Fellowship for her post-doctoral studies in NYU.

Tally worked as a clerk for the Deputy President of the Israeli Supreme Court Mishael Cheshin (retired), and has been a member of the Israeli bar since 2004.

Dr. Jacob Nussim is an assistant professor of law at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, where he teaches courses on tax (income taxation, VAT, corporate taxation, tax policy), law and economics, regulations, and microeconomics. Dr. Nussim holds a BA (econ.) magna cum laude, LL.B and LLM magna cum laude from Tel-Aviv University (Israel) and LLM and J.S.D. from the University of Chicago.Dr. Nussim’s main research interest is in the fields of tax and law and economics, and he has published articles in various journals such as the Yale law review, Virginia tax law review, International review of law and economics, Supreme Court economic review, European journal of law and economics, Review of law and economics. Dr. Nussim was a visiting professor at UCLA during the fall semester of 2008 and joined the Hauser global program for the spring semester of 2009.

Ms. Adriana Opromolla Global Fellow from Practice & Government Italy

Ms. Opromolla is currently employed as Social Policy Officer at Caritas Europa.  However, her professional experiences also include serving as a lawyer at both the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance and the European Court of Human Rights. In addition, she has worked on the Advisory Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion and Beliefs (assisting the Italian Director) and has served as the delegated expert for the Holy See in the Ad Hoc Committee on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings of the Council of Europe drafting the Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings. Ms. Opromolla’s proposal entitled "Enhancing Labour Rights in a Globalized World: Finding Solutions through a Comparative Transatlantic Perspective" will examine the impact of global trade on human rights, in particular of the WTO rules on Labor law and social standards. Within this context, Ms. Opromolla intends to carry out comparative research between the different legal arguments defended by the EU and the US.  Ms. Opromolla holds an LL.M. from the University of Geneva and recently began her Ph.D. studies at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.  During her residency, Ms. Opromolla will be affiliated with the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.

Frank Hogholm Pedersen Global Fellow from Practice & Government Denmark

Frank Pedersen is a tax scholar and futurist. Combining an exhaustive understanding of the fundamentals of income taxation with a profound knowledge of the development of western societies, he works with the conceptual understanding and modernization of income tax systems.

Dr. Pedersen holds a position as a senior consultant at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, one of Scandinavia’s leading non-partisan think tanks. He is a sought-after speaker for authorities and companies, with customers such as The Danish Commerce and Companies Agency, The City of Copenhagen and Nokia. Previously he was director of the unit for tax simplification at the Danish Ministry of Taxation, a unit working directly for the minister of taxation and which managed to reduce the administrative burdens for Danish business with 10 pct. during its first 3 years of work under the leadership of Dr. Pedersen.

Frank Pedersen earned his Master’s and PhD degrees in law at Aarhus University, Denmark. In addition, he has studied sociology at The Humboldt University in Berlin. From 1997-98, he was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School. His dissertation is published with the title “Tax Aversion – a Sociology of Law and Tax Policy Analysis”.

Dr. Pedersen is currently working on a research project analyzing income tax systems using the newest social science theories in the field of ‘complex systems’. An aim is to enhance the value of the tax-simplification literature for both practitioner and tax theorist. The literature needs to better include developments in technology and to embrace the necessity for tax systems to be able to function in more complex and shifting environments. Dr. Pedersen will be affiliated with the Tax Program.

Yehuda Septimus is a doctoral candidate in Religious Studies at Yale University.Yehuda Septimus received his doctorate in Religious Studies at Yale University. He is currently working on a book entitled, "On the Boundaries of Prayer: Rabbinic Ritual Texts with Addressees Other Than God" , which examines the rhetorical, ritual, and definitional limits of rabbinic prayer based on ritual recitations preserved in talmudic texts addressed to non-divine beings such as humans and angels. He received a BA in English Literature from Yeshiva University, an MA in Classical Jewish History and Literature from Yale University, and rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. His research interests include Jewish Law; Talmud and Midrash; Jewish Ritual and Synagogue Culture; and the intersection of early Christianity and Judaism.

Filippo Valguarnera (born 1977) has earned a law degree (summa cum laude) and a PhD in Comparative Law at the University of Florence, Italy. Since 2007, Dr. Valguarnera has been a research fellow in Comparative Law at the same university, where he also teaches Comparative Legal Systems at the Faculty of Economics. During the academic year 2007-08, Dr. Valguarnera has taught European Law at New York University's Florence Center, in the Political Science program. He has also worked as a research fellow at the University of Uppsala (Sweden), pursuing a research funded by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency on the right of the public to access private land (the so called “allemansrätt”). His main research interests concern access to justice, with particular reference to class action, as well as land ownership, with particular reference to the access of the public on privately owned land. His research proposal is entitled “Opt-in or opt-out? A comparative study” and deals with the legal and cultural factors that prevent the European legislators from a generalized adoption of the opt-out system for the determination of the class in class action lawsuits.

Dr. Raphaël van Steenberghe received his PhD in Law from the University of Louvain (Belgium, 2008). He also holds an LLM in International Law from the University of Cambridge (UK, 2004) and a BA and MA in Law (2001) as well as in Philosophy (2002) from the University of Louvain. His doctoral research considers the matter of Self-Defence in Public International Law. Dr. Raphaël van Steenberghe is also the author of various articles in the Revue générale de droit international public (RGDIP) or the Revue belge de droit international (RBDI) on questions pertaining to use of force between States. He contributed to the third edition of the commentary of the United Nations Charter as well. He was a correspondent for the Bulletin of Legal Developments published by the British Institute for International and Comparative Law. He was also involved in research on criminal law issues and published a couple of papers on the subject. Dr. van Steenberghe Raphaël has taught International Law at the University of Louvain for three years where he has been in charge of seminars and examination. He has also taken part in several conferences where he delivered speeches. He was an intern with the legal department of the International Court of Justice (The Hague, 2001) and the Codification Division of the United Nations (New York, 2006). As a Global Research Fellow at NYU School of Law, he is engaged in a research on the aut dedere aut judicare issue.

Wai Yee Wan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Law at the Singapore Management University. She graduated with an LLB (First Class Honors) from the National University of Singapore in 1996. She also holds a BCL from the University of Oxford, where she was in residence at St Edmund Hall in 1996/97. After obtaining her BCL, she joined the Singapore Legal Service and served as a Justices’ Law Clerk, Assistant Registrar and Deputy Public Prosecutor. Immediately prior to joining academia, she was a partner at Allen & Gledhill, Financial Services Department, where she practised in the areas of mergers and acquisitions as well as equity capital markets. She is currently on the Law Reform Committee of the Singapore Academy of Law.

Wai Yee’s fields of research are in corporate and securities regulation, and she has published, inter alia, in the Company and Securities Law Journal, Company Lawyer, Journal of Business Law, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies and Singapore Academy of Law Journal. She was awarded the Lee Foundation Fellow for Research Excellence in 2007. At NYU, her research proposal will be on the validity of deal protection devices in negotiated acquisition or merger transactions under Anglo-American law.

Ms Xu is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of Economic Law Center at Shanghai Jiaotong University, and a Secretary-general of Tax Law Center of Shanghai Law Society, Shanghai, China. She received double Bachelor's Degrees in International Trade and Law from Hubei University School of Law in 1997 and her PhD in Finance Law from Wuhan University School of Law in 2003. Her major fields of research and teaching are Tax Law, Financial Law, Bank Law and Economic Law. Moreover, she published extensively in some of the nation’s most outstanding law reviews and her scholarship has been reprinted in specialized journals. Ms. Xu's book, Legal Aspects on Credit-right Finance, was published by the Law Press in 2005. She was rewarded a grant on her cutting-edge research on securitization issues by the China Social Science Fund in 2006, which is the highest level of government support in China academics. During her residency, Ms. Xu will focus her research on Legal Issues of Tax Planning: A Sino-US Comparison, which involves promoting rights-awareness of taxpayers and advocating democratic control of public finance.

2007-2008 Academic Year

Dr. Joseph (Yossi) David has received a BA in philosophy and Jewish history from the Open University and a LLB from Bar Ilan University, Israel. His MA and PhD are in philosophy and Jewish thought from the Hebrew University, Israel. He is the editor of The State of Israel: Between Judaism and Democracy (Israel Democracy Institute, 2003), and Questioning Dignity: Human Dignity as Supreme Modern Value, (Magnes Press, 2006). He is also the author of the forthcoming Between Logos and Nomos – Studies in Jewish Comparative Jurisprudence. Professor David's research and teaching have focused on various topics in the Jewish legal tradition from historical and jurisprudential perspective. His recent studies have focused on Jewish-Islamic comparative theories of adjudication (judicial analogy and judicial error), epistemology of law in pre-modern legal systems (memory and transmission), nature and law, violence and ethics of weapons of mass destruction. He has published numerous articles and book chapters, including articles in Ratio Juris and The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. His research proposal is entitled "Legal Imagination and Religious Identity in Jewish and Islamic Jurisprudential Thought."

Ms. Anna Dolidze Albert Podell Global Fellow at Risk Georgia

Anna Dolidze is a human rights lawyer and Albert Podell Global Fellow at Risk at New York University School of Law. In 2007, Anna was a Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University. Currently Chair of the Center for Democracy in Georgia, she is the former president of the Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA).

Established in 1994, GYLA promotes higher standards for the legal profession and supports the professional development of law students and young lawyers in Georgia. GYLA's focus areas include promotion of rule of law, legal reform, developing legal education, building civil society networks, and ensuring transparency and accountability of the government.

A graduate of Tbilisi State University, Ms. Dolidze as well pursued extensive legal studies abroad, and received her LL.M. (Master of Laws) in Public International Law from Leiden University in the Netherlands. She has contributed to the work of a number of important organizations such as the Georgia Media Council, the Stakeholders Committee of the Millennium Challenge Georgia Fund, and the Human Rights Monitoring Council of the Penitentiary and Detention Places. Ms. Dolidze served as Adjunct Professor in Human Rights and International Law at the Caucasus School of Law and Georgian American University.

Ms. Dolidze is the author of numerous publications on legal reforms in Georgia.

Dr. Ludovic Hennebel holds a PhD in Law (ULB, 2005), the Diploma on International Protection of Human Rights from the Institut Rene Cassin in Strasbourg (2001), an LLM in human rights and civil liberties (University of Leicester, UK, 1999), and a BA and MA in law (ULB, 1998). He has been a member of the Perelman Center for Legal Philosophy of the Law Faculty of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles since 2000, where he conducts his research and acts as director of the Brussels based academic association Magna Carta - Human Rights Network International. His research focuses on international human rights law. He has worked on the inter-American system of human rights, the UN system of human rights, business and human rights, global justice and global law. He is the author and editor of various publications, including, inter alia, 'Classer les droits de l¹homme' (Book with Emmanuelle Bribosia, Bruylant, 2004), 'Responsabilite des entreprises et coregulation' (Book with Thomas Berns and others, Bruylant, 2006), and 'La Convention americaine des droits de l'homme' (Bruylant, 2007) among others. At NYU, he will work on "Towards global justice: How to ensure an access to justice for the human rights violations' victims?" at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.

Professor Hey is a German professor of tax law living in Cologne. In 1996 she received her Doctor Juris summa cum laude, at the University of Cologne with her thesis on "Harmonization of Business Taxation in Europe". After completing two years of a Senior Research Fellowship at the Institute of Tax Law of the University of Cologne as an assistant to Professor Joachim Lang in 2001 she finished her Postdoctoral Thesis (Habilitation) on "Tax Planning Reliability as a Legal Problem". Professor Hey is currently the Director of the Institute of Tax Law and a full professor at the University of Cologne where she teaches courses on Principles and Constitutional Framework of Taxation, Personal Income Tax, Business Taxation, Value Added Tax, Tax Procedure, European Tax Law, Administrative and Constitutional Law. In addition to her academic duties, Professor Hey is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance, the Expert Group for Tax Codification of the Stiftung Marktwirtschaft; Head of Business Tax Integration Working Group as well as a member of the Board of the German Professors’ Association, where she was elected Vice President in 2006. She has published approximately 70 academic publications on various aspects of German, European and international tax law and German public and constitutional law. Professor Hey’s research proposal is entitled "United States Experiences with Tax Competition: Potential Answers for Germany and the European Union." Professor Hey will be affiliated with the Tax Program and the Jean Monnet Center.

Dr. Job Y. Jindo received a BA in the Bible and Talmud from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in 1997. In 1999, he earned a MA in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, United States. He then completed a PhD in the Department of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 2006, with a dissertation entitled: “Biblical Metaphor Reconsidered: A Cognitive Approach to Poetic Metaphor in Biblical Prophecy” (awarded distinction). His research interests include: ancient cosmology, poetics of ancient literature, biblical law, New Testament in light of rabbinic literature, Jewish Biblical Exegesis, and history of modern biblical scholarship. While in residency at NYU, his research focuses on the cognitive approach of the poetics and the Weltanschauung of ancient literature as set forth in his dissertation.

Educated in Germany, Dr. Krebs earned his LLB at the University of Kent at Canterbury (English and German Law), then earned the postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law degree followed by doctorate at Christ Church, University of Oxford where his thesis, supervised by Professor Peter Birks, focused on the comparative law of restitution. His book 'Restitution at the Crossroads' was awarded the Cavendish Book Prize at the Annual Dinner of the Society of Legal Scholars 2001. After three years as Norton Rose Lecturer in Commercial Law at University College London, Dr. Krebs took up his present post as University Lecturer in Commercial Law at Oxford University and his Fellowship of Brasenose College. Dr. Krebs is also a practicing barrister with an associate tenancy at Serle Court, Lincoln's Inn.

Dr. Amparo Martinez Guerra is a member of the research project Reforms, Universal Jurisdiction and Fundamental Rights Criminal Protection of Madrid directed by Dr. Luis Rodriguez Ramos and supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems Universitat (Bonn), Max Planck-Institut fur auslandisches und internationales Strafrecht (Freiburg am Breisgau) and the Ortega and Gasset Foundation. She is also a consultant at the Center for Political and International Studies. Amparo received her LL.B from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid in 2001. In 2002, she became a PhD candidate and predoctoral fellow in the Criminal Law Department, Universidad Complutense of Madrid. She completed her PhD in Law cum laude in 2006 with her dissertation on Criminal Law and consumer protection in the EU and the U.S.A. She has been a visiting researcher at the European Law Research Center Harvard Law School under the supervision of Prof. David. W. Kennedy (2003); at the Institut fur Kriminologie und Wirtschaftsstrafrecht, Albert-Ludwig Universitat with Dr. Prof. h.c Klaus Tiedemann (2004); at the European University Institute, Department of Law, in Florence (2005) and at the New York University Law School Library in 2006. Before joining the University, she was trainee at the Investment Promotion Bureau, Spanish Ministry of Economy. In her research proposal, "International Criminal Jurisdiction" Dr. Martinez will focus on the role of the International Criminal Court Prosecutor and national Prosecutors applying the Universal Jurisdiction Principle investigating international crimes and crimes against humanity.

Dr. Makane Moise Mbengue, a native of Senegal, is a Teaching Assistant and Researcher at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. In 1997, he received his LLB from the University Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis (Senegal) in Public Law. In 1998, he received a Masters degree (Maitrise in the French system) in Public Law from the University of Saint-Louis. In 1999, he received an LLM in Business and Economic Law from the same University. In 2001, he obtained the Certificate of the Center for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations. Dr. Mbengue completed his PhD in international law, summa cum laude, from the University of Geneva in June 2007. Dr. Mbengue is also the author of a number of articles in widely respected and cited scientific journals and books on trade and environment, international dispute-settlement, the law of treaties, law of international watercourses and WTO law. From 2001 to 2005, he worked as a researcher for the Swiss National Science Foundation on a project entitled "Trade, the Environment and the International Regulation of Biotechnology". From September 2004 to June 2005, he was a law clerk at the International Court of Justice (The Hague, Netherlands). He has been a consultant for the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the Nile Basin Initiative and the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health. At NYU School of Law, he will focus on the relationship between Globalization and Regionalism in the Protection of the Environment and of Health. The research will identify and describe the various types of relations between multilateralism and regionalism in the field of natural resources management and health protection. Dr. Mbengue's research proposal is entitled "Globalization and Regionalism in the Protection of the Environment and of Health." During his residency, Dr. Mbengue will be affiliated with the Institute for International Law and Justice.

Ms. Yasuko Morooka Global Japanese Federation of Bar Fellow Japan

Ms. Morooka is the candidate nominated by the Japanese Federation Bar Association (JFBA).  As a registered attorney with the Tokyo Bar Association and the JFBA, she has been actively involved in various committees and projects especially those involving gender equality, the protection of foreigners' human rights, and the elimination of racial discrimination in Japan. She has especially worked for the right to education for children of foreigners and ethnic minorities, focusing on foreign and ethnic schools in Japan. She has tackled reform of the educational system in order to secure these rights.  Most recently she served as the deputy direct general of the Executive Committee Symposium for the 47th Convention on the Protection of Human Rights by the JFBA. Ms. Moorkoa has written a number of articles on the issues of gender and discrimination and intends to further explore this area in her research proposal entitled "A Comparative Analysis of Legal Systems and its Effects to Eliminate Racial Discrimination in the United States and Other Countries."

Ms. Adrianna Opromolla Global Fellow from Government Italy

Dr. Perry is currently serving as an Associate Professor at the University of Haifa where he has received two awards for excellence in teaching. Dr. Perry received his LLB magna cum laude from Tel Aviv University in 1996. He was admitted to the special program for excellent students (top 0.5% of undergraduate students in all disciplines), and the IDF academic reserve (top undergraduate students in select disciplines). In 1997, he completed with distinction his LLM studies, as part of the direct doctoral track requirements, at the Hebrew University. He then served for three years in the IDF JAG Corps. He received his LL.D. summa cum laude from the Hebrew University in 2001. In addition, Dr. Perry is one of the founding editors, and a senior editor (one of six) of the Journal of Tort Law, a University of California-Berkeley Publication, and the editor-in-chief of the Haifa Law Review. Dr. Perry has published more than twenty articles on tort, insurance, remedies, jurisprudence, and legal education and his book, Economic Ricochets, discusses the problem of relational purely economic loss from historical, comparative, and theoretical perspectives. His research proposal is entitled "A Critical Study of the Consequential/Relational Economic Loss Dichotomy in Tort Law."

Professor Tsakyrakis is an Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at Athens University where he teaches courses on Human Rights, General Theory of the State, and Legal Ethics while simultaneously serving as a practicing attorney where he has successfully argued cases before the European Court of Human Rights. Dr. Tsakyrakis has published extensively on numerous Human Rights issues including terrorism, hate speech and the death penalty. Professor Tsakyrakis has had various sabbaticals in Paris, Harvard University, and Columbia University, and while at NYU Law he will spend his time conducting on a research project entitled "The Balancing Approach on the Balance: Human Rights Limitations in the ECHR" which will provide research for another book he will write on the general theory of human rights law. During his residency, Professor Tsakyrakis will be affiliated with the Jean Monnet Center.

Dr. Kaius Tuori Hauser Research Scholar Finland

Dr. Kaius Tuori holds a doctorate in Law and a M.A. in History from his studies at the universities of Helsinki, Finland, and La Sapienza in Rome, Italy. His research interests include legal history, Roman law, legal anthropology, and classical archaeology. In his work on intellectual history he studied how modern law affected the history of ancient Roman law. During his stay with the Hauser Global Law School Program, he shall pursue a similar chronologically challenged project on how Americal Legal Realism influenced the study of early law during the mid-20th century.

Last year Dr. Tuori was the University Lecturer in Legal History at the Faculty of Law at the University of Helsinki. In 2008, he shall continue his post-doctoral project at the Center of Excellence of Global Governance Research at the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights in Helsinki. His work has been published in The Journal of Legal History, Revue Internationale des Droits de l'Antiquite and the Legal History Review.

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Mr. Chih-Ching Yu Global Fellow from Practice Taiwan

Mr. Yu earned his LL.B degree from the Department of Law of Soochow University in 1998, then passed both the entrance examination of the National Taipei University Graduate School of Law and the national judicial examination. In 2005, he completed his master thesis entitled: "A Study on Personal Information Protection in the Field of the Co-Marketing of the Financial Holding Company."   Mr. Yu's professional experience includes six years as a prosecutor in the Taiwan Taipei District, first working on criminal cases, then in the Domestic Violence, Child Abuse and Sexual Crime Division, and most recently on cases involving corruption and financial crime.  In October 2006, he was appointed to prosecute an insider-trading case, in which one of the accused was the son-in-law of Taiwan's incumbent President Chen Shui-Bian. With his specialized training in financial laws, he successfully persuaded judges to make a guilty verdict.  His courtroom defense was mentioned as the "defense of the century" by a leading Taiwanese financial magazine,  Business Weekly .  Through his experiences working in this area, Mr. Yu was made aware that the number of financial scandals in Taiwan has continued to increase over the past years. This experience has inspired Mr. Yu to further investigate the techniques and approaches used in detecting financial crimes in his research proposal entitled "Government Strategies for the Prevention of Corporate Corruption."

2006-2007 Academic Year

Dr. Marian Angeles Ahumada, a native of Santander, Spain, is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In 1988, she received her LLB from the Universidad de Valladolid, Spain. In 1990 she was conferred her Diploma of Specialization in Constitutional Law and Political Science from the Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, Spain, and received the Constiutional Law Prize. Dr. Ahumada completed her PhD in law (doctor europeus), cum laude, premio extraordinario, from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, in 2004.

She has being visiting researcher at Max-Planck-Institut in Heidelberg, Harvard Law School and NYU School of Law, and visiting scholar at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the University of Essex. Since 1998 she has been Guest Professor at the Universidad Externado de Colombia as a member of the Faculty teaching the Master Course on Constitutional and Parliamentary Law in Bogotá. During the academic years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 she taught the course Introduction to Civil Law and Comparative Constitutional Law in the William & Mary Summer Law Program in Madrid. She is Tutor and Professor at the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid, Spain, and in 2004 was named collaborator of the Global Law Garrigues Chair at the Universidad de Navarra. She has lectured in various countries in Europe and Latin America and taken part in the Doctoral Program organized by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Beijing University of Foreign Studies. From 2001 to 2004, Dr. Ahumada was Academic Director of the EU-China Legal and Judicial Program (Lawyers’ Training) in Madrid.

Dr. Ahumada has published a number of legal articles in the fields of constitutional law, law of constitutional courts and comparative constitutionalism. Her PhD research was focused on the comparison between the American and European approaches to constitutional review. This research was awarded the “Nicolás Pérez Serrano” Prize for doctoral dissertations in constitutional law and political science in 2005, and served as the basis for two books: La Jurisdicción Constitucional en Europa. Bases teóricas y políticas (Constitutional Jurisdiction in Europe. Political and Theoretical Foundations), published in 2005, and Judicial Review: el control de constitucionalidad en los Estados Unidos (forthcoming).

At NYU School of Law, she will embark on research on the relationships among state and federal courts and the way “judicial federalism” influences and is influenced by the performance of federalism in broader sense. For a variety of reasons she thinks that United States is a unique laboratory for this work, even if she plans not confining the research to the American case. To spend time at the Law School, she was granted a fellowship by the Caja Madrid Foundation and obtained a permission of leave from her university.

Dr. Leora Batnitzky is Associate Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She received a BA in philosophy from Barnard College, Columbia University and a BA in biblical studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Her MA and PhD are in religion from Princeton University. She is the author of Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (Cambridge, 2006) and Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered (Princeton, 2000). She is also the editor of the forthcoming Martin Buber: Schriften zur Philosophie und Religion (Gütersloher) and, since 2004, the co-editor of Jewish Studies Quarterly .

Professor Batnitzky's research and teaching have focused on modern religious thought and on Jewish thought particularly. Increasingly, she has focused on the historical and philosophical continuities between religious thought and political theory as they relate to the development of modern legal theory. She has published numerous articles and book chapters, including articles in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and Cardozo Law Review .

At NYU School of Law, Professor Batnitzky's work will focus on the conceptual relation between one of the first proponents of legal positivism Hans Kelsen (1881-1973) and the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) to show some of the ways in which Kelsen's theory of law in general and his theory of international law in particular may be conceptually related if not indebted to Cohen's Jewish theological corrective of Kant. This research aims to demonstrate the common philosophical and political endeavor of modern Jewish thinkers and modern legal theorists influenced by Kelsen to define a concept of law that denies that coercion is an intrinsic part of law. This work is part of a larger project that examines the concept of law in modern religious thought (Jewish and Christian) and modern legal theory (Anglo-American and Continental). Professor Batnitzky's project is supported by a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew Mellon Foundation.

Rabbi Naftali Cohn received a BA from Harvard University, United States, in 1996. In 2001 he earned an MA in Talmudic Studies from Yeshiva University, United States, and in 2002 was ordained by the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University. He is currently pursuing a PhD in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, United States. In addition, since 2002, he has served as an Adjunct Instructor in Judaic Studies at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University.

His current research, on the ancient Jewish legal work known as the Mishnah, combines the perspectives of narrative theory and ritual theory to read ritual narrative texts as cultural documents. He is also exploring the cultural construction of women's lives in the Mishnah and in other ancient Jewish legal and narrative texts.

Dr. Catriona Drew holds an LLB from the University of Aberdeen and a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She lectured in public international law at the Universities of Dundee and Glasgow in Scotland before joining the School of Oriental and African Studies, of the University of London, in 2003. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Program of Harvard Law School, and is co-founder of the Centre for International Law and Colonialism at SOAS. Her principal research interest relates to the international law of self-determination. She is currently working on an international legal history of the relationship between the principle of self-determination and population transfer.

Dr. Dimitrios Kyritsis graduated from the University of Athens earning a degree in Law in 2000. One year later he was awarded the M.Jur. from Mansfield College, University of Oxford. He then received the M.Phil. and D.Phil. from Brasenose College, University of Oxford. His thesis, entitled "Divided Authority: Separation of Powers and Legal Theory," addressed the controversy over the nature of law through an account of the ideal of separation of powers. After completing his thesis, Dr. Kyritsis returned to Greece and was actively involved in teaching and research in legal philosophy at the University of Athens.

Dr. Kyritsis's primary research interests range from analytic jurisprudence to constitutional theory. In his current research he aims to step back into moral philosophy and advance a theory of practical authority that can be applied to law as well as to other systems of authoritative guidance more generally.

Dr. Michel B. Likosky teaches in the Law School of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. In 2006, he published Law, Infrastructure, and Human Rights (Cambridge University Press) with the underlying research supported by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. A second book, The Silicon Empire (Ashgate 2005), was based upon doctoral work completed in the Law Faculty of Oxford University examining the continuities and discontinuities between colonial and present-day high technology-based transnational legal orders. He has edited two books: Transnational Legal Processes (Cambridge University Press 2002) and Privatising Development (Martinus Nijhoff 2005). He has twice contributed to the Oxford Amnesty Lectures (Oxford University Press 2003, 2006). He teaches International Economic Law, Law and Globalization, and Public International Law. Dr. Likosky has held fellowships at the University of Oxford, the University of Bonn, and the Center for Media Education in Washington, D.C. He has consulted for corporation and worked with non-governmental organizations.

Dr. Nicola Lucchi is a lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of Ferrara, Italy, and research associate at the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Ferrara. He is a Fellow of the Center for Internet and Society at the Stanford Law School and he is currently a Global Engelberg Research Fellow at the NYU School of Law.

Dr. Lucchi was a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, and at the University of Texas at Austin, School of Law.

His current research focuses on intellectual property issues and rights in digital media. At NYU School of Law, he will work on a project concerning the management of digital intellectual property rights and its impact on consumer protection.

His awards include the European Commission's Kaléidoscope Programme scholarship and the Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship to the University of Texas at Austin.

From June 2001 to May 2005 he worked as Honorary Judge at the Court of Ferrara. Before joining the academia, Dr. Lucchi was a public relations assistant to one of Italy's foremost classical music conductors Claudio Abbado and also to the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

He has published on legal informatics, comparative intellectual property, information society and cyberlaw. Among his recent publications are: "Intellectual Property Rights in Digital Media: A Comparative Analysis of Legal Protection, Technological Measures and New Business Models under E.U. and U.S. Law" ( Buffalo Law Review , Vol. 53, No. 4, Fall 2005); "The Supremacy of Techno-Governance: Privatization of Digital Content and Consumer Protection in the Globalized Information Society" ( International Journal of Law and Information Technology , forthcoming 2006) and Digital Media & Intellectual Property (Berlin, Springer-Verlag, forthcoming 2006).

Patrick Macklem is a Professor of Law at University of Toronto, a Permanent Visiting Professor at Central European University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He holds law degrees from Harvard and Toronto, and an undergraduate degree in political science and philosophy from McGill. He served as Law Clerk for Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada and as a constitutional advisor to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. He was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School in 1988 and at U.C.L.A. School of Law in 1992. In 2003, he was selected as a Fulbright New Century Scholar, taught at the European University Institute, and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School.

Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada (2001) (awarded the Canadian Political Science Association 2002 Donald Smiley Prize for best book on Canadian governance and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences 2002 Harold Innis Prize by for the best English-language book in the social sciences), co-editor of Canadian Constitutional Law (2003), The Security of Freedom: Essays on Canada's Anti-terrorism Bill (2001), and Labour and Employment Law (2004), and has published numerous articles on international human rights law, cultural minorities, constitutional law, indigenous peoples and the law, and labour law.

Prof. Dr. C.W. Maris has been a professor of legal philosophy at the University of Amsterdam since 1988. Since 1992, he has been avisiting professor at the Universities of Surinam and the Dutch Antilles. He is the editor of several journals in the fields of jurisprudence and philosophy. His main fields of research concern the concept of liberty and its practical applications, multiculturalism, love, art, law and literature, and epistemology. Among his publications are A Critique of the Empiricist Explanation of Morality (doctoral dissertation, cum laude ); Letters on Liberty ; Law, Order, and Freedom ; and Twelve Loves . He also wrote and brought on stage the philosophical oratorio Horror Vacui (in cooperation with the composer José-Luis Greco) and the philosophical dialogue The Dance of Zarathustra .

Mr. Ben McFarlane is the University Lecturer in Property Law & Trusts at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. He holds MA and B.C.L. degrees from Oxford, having graduated first in his undergraduate class. He has published articles on contract law and the law of restitution, but his primary current research interest is property law. He is the Convenor of the Land Law teaching group at Oxford and is currently preparing a textbook on Land Law. He also has an interest in French law and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Paris II in 2005-6.

Mr. McFarlane has written widely on the doctrine of proprietary estoppel, and spoke on comparative aspects of that topic at the Obligations III conference in Brisbane in July 2006. His particular interest is in the possible expansion of that doctrine in English law, and he is therefore keen to examine the application of the related doctrine of equitable estoppel in the law(s) of the United States. He wishes to use his time in New York to explore the practical application of equitable estoppel, especially in relation to commercial disputes, and hopes to use the American experience as a means of finding some valuable lessons for the future development of English law. He has undertaken such comparative research before, when writing an article entitled "The Recovery of Money Paid On Judgments Later Reversed" which looked extensively at American law.

Dr. Julio Ríos-Figueroa holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Politics both from New York University. His research focuses on constitutional adjudication, judicial independence, and corruption with an emphasis in Latin America. While at the Hauser Global Law School Program he plans to expand his dissertation work on the effects of judicial independence on corruption, and to analyze the factors that determine variation in the institutional structure of judiciaries and prosecutorial organs across Latin America.

Dr. Ríos-Figueroa will become Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at CIDE, in Mexico City. His work has been published in  Comparative Political Studies ,  Latin American Politics & Society , and the  Journal of Latin American Studies .

Ms. Makiko Sakuma Global Japanese Federation of Bar Fellow Japan

Ms. Makiko Sakuma graduated from Keio University, Japan, with an LL.B. degree in 1995 and passed the Japan National Bar Examination in 1996. From 1997 to 1999, she studied at the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan. Since 1999, she has been registered as a lawyer with the Japan Federation of Bar Association (JFBA) and the Daini Tokyo Bar Association (DTBA).

Ms. Sakuma has been involved in many cases relating to women's human rights such as domestic violence and divorce cases since she became a lawyer. She has been on the Committee on Sexual Equality of the DTBA since 2002, and in 2003, she served as a vice chairperson of the committee. She also took part in writing the book  Jirei de Manabu Shihou ni okeru Gender Bias  (Gender Bias in Courts) Tokyo: Akashi, 2003.

Ms. Sakuma worked actively for the establishment of law schools in Japan as an officer of the Law School Center of the JFBA from 2002 to 2004, and also as a member of the Law School Establishment Support Committee of the DTBA from 2001 to 2004.

Dr. Mario Savino is a researcher at the Tuscia University of Viterbo, Italy. He received his PhD in Administrative Law from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 2004. In 2005, he was UE Law Poros Chair Professor at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India. He teaches European Administrative Law at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and is coordinator of the research team on "Evolution of a polycentric administrative space," within the Connex Network (Connecting Excellence on European Governance), at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research-Mzes, University of Mannheim, Germany.

His fields of research interest are global and European administrative law. He has published a monograph on the EU committee system ( I comitati dell’Unione europea , Milano, Giuffrè, 2005). He has also written on international transgovernmental bodies, the European Commission, Italian administrative reforms and other topics related to domestic administrative law. He is currently researching on public order, public security and immigration at national, European and global levels. At NYU School of Law he will work on the specific issue of the accountability of transgovernmental networks.

Dr. Noam Sher is an Assistant Professor of Law (Lecturer) at Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel. He received his J.S.D. in 2004, LLM in 2000 and LLB in 1991 from Tel-Aviv University; and his MA in 1992 and BA in 1989 both in economics from Tel-Aviv University. The subject matter of his doctoral dissertation is: Underwriters' Civil Liability for IPO's .

After his LLB and economics studies, Dr. Sher practiced law with Efraty-Galili and Co., Law-Office and then he joined the Radzyner School of Law, IDC. Dr. Sher's main areas of research and teaching are: corporate law, securities regulation, economic analysis of law, property law and bankruptcy law. Dr. Sher served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Law & Business , and the IDC Law Review , in the period of its establishment. Dr. Sher has been a member of the Israeli Bar Association since 1992.

For the period of academic year 2006-2007 Dr. Sher is a Global Law and Economics Research Fellow at New York University School of Law. His main projects are in the areas of economic analysis of medical malpractice, securities regulation and intellectual property law.

Dr. Jichun Shi is a professor at Renmin University of China School of Law, Beijing. He received a Bachelor of Law majoring in politics education from Anhui Normal University, P.R. China, in 1982. He then continued into Anhui University Department of Law and, a few years later, went to Renmin University of China, specialized in civil law, earning his Master of Law in 1985 and Doctor of Law in 1991. He has written and lectured on companies and enterprises law, competition law, consumer law, intellectual property law, and the theory of civil, business and economic law, etc.

He currently focuses on the Chinese anti-trust legislation, paying attention to privatization of, and anti-monopoly on public utilities. He has been appointed as one of the Expert Consultants of the Legislative Committee on Chinese Antimonopoly Law by the Legislative Affairs Office of the PRC State Council. He is also interested in the thinking and institutions of Anglo-Saxon law compared with that of continental law, and wishes to develop comprehensive first-hand experience in the U.S. legal system.

Dr. Yan'an Shi is an associate professor at the School of Law of Renmin University of China (RUC), and the fellow of the Research Center for Criminal Jurisprudence at RUC, one of the key national research institutes of humanistic and social sciences in universities of China. He is a part-time fellow of the College for Criminal Science at Beijing Normal University. He is also the editor of the criminal law part of Jurists Review, which is one of the most influential law journals in China.

He received his master degree in July of 2000, and his doctorate in July of 2003 from RUC. From August of 1994 to August of 1997, he worked in Mudanjiang Procuratorate of Heilongjiang Province, China, and he received the title of associate procurator in May of 1996.

His major interest is criminal law, and his favorite field is criminal policy and international cooperation in criminal matters. He has published one book entitled Inter-regional Concurrent Criminal Jurisdiction in China, and cooperated with another young scholar in writing a book on the offences against decency. Since 2000, he has published more than 40 papers on criminal law.

Dr. Benjamin Straumann completed his doctoral dissertation ( insigni cum laude ) on the classical foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural and international law in 2005 at the University of Zurich after studies in Zurich and Rome. He is currently a Global Research Fellow in the Hauser Global Law School Program. He is also an Alberico Gentili Fellow in the Program in the History and Theory of International Law. Previously, Benjamin has worked for the Swiss Mission to the United Nations and was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. His research interests include the history of natural and international law, natural rights and social contract theories as well as the early modern reception of Roman law and classical political thought.

His publications include "'Ancient Caesarian Lawyers' in a State of Nature: Roman Tradition and Natural Rights in Hugo Grotius' De iure praedae ," Political Theory 34, 3 (June 2006), pp. 328-50; "The Right to Punish as a Just Cause of War in Hugo Grotius' Natural Law," Studies in the History of Ethics 2 (February 2006), pp. 1-20, available at http://www.historyofethics.org/022006/022006Straumann.shtml ; and an article on Rome and her influence in modern culture and scholarship in Brill's New Pauly . Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World, ed. M. Landfester (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, forthcoming).

Prof. Dr. Michael Tumpel was born in 1964 in Vienna, Austria. He holds a M.BA and a doctoral degree from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. After receiving venia docendi (Habilitation) for Tax Law and Tax Management from Vienna University he became an associate professor of the Vienna University. In 2000, he was appointed full professor at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria.

Professor Tumpel's research interests include various aspects of Austrian, international and European tax law. He has authored or edited several books and has published articles in national and international journals. His current research focuses on the reform of the EU Value Added Tax system to combat tax fraud.

He has been awarded the Albert Hensel Award of the German Tax Law Association 1998, Münster 1998 and the Scientific Award of the International Fiscal Association (IFA), Austrian Branch, Vienna 1998 for his habilitation thesis on Value Added Tax on Intra-Community Trade.

Ms. Pei-Hsien Wong Global Fellow from Practice Taiwan

Ms. Pei-Hsien Wong comes from Taiwan. She graduated from the National Chengchi University School of Law and passed the graduate school's entrance examination in the same university in 1995. She subsequently passed the national judicial examination and was admitted to the Bar in 1996. In 2001, she got her master's degree and wrote a thesis entitled "The civil disputes on the safekeeping boxes in the bank."

Regarding her career, she has been a prosecutor for nearly 7 years. Within this period, she has gone through different departments in her office and has had the experience of investigating criminal cases, debating in the court room and implementing criminal sanction. Those professional careers give her a complete training to go through different parts in the legal procedure. Due to her interest in the rights of women and children, she mainly dealt with cases relating to sexual harassment and assault and domestic violence in the past years.

As Taiwan faces a shortage of prison space and difficulties in prison expansion, Ms. Wong has started to think about the necessities of jailing a criminal. Given the global economic slow-down and the financial difficulties of all governments, she believes that it must be a common problem in the world. Therefore, she applied to participate in the Global Visitors Program at New York University School of Law to perform research on governmental alternatives to jailing criminals. Moreover, she hopes that this study will also attract the attention of other visiting scholars, working together to solve the difficult problem.

2005-2006 Academic Year

Ms. Christine Bateup is a J.S.D. Candidate at NYU School of Law from Australia. She specializes in comparative constitutional law and constitutional theory, with a particular interest in theories of constitutional dialogue. Her doctoral dissertation explores how a clearly defined form of constitutional dialogue between courts, the political branches of government and the people might be institutionalized if a Bill of Rights is incorporated into Australian law, building on existing forms of institutional interaction that exist in the Australian setting.

Ms. Bateup completed her B.A./LL.B. degrees at the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 1997, graduating with first class honors in Law.  She subsequently was employed as a legal clerk at the Federal Court of Australia in Melbourne.  In 2001, she graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, receiving an LL.M. degree with Distinction.  

Stefano Cappiello Global Fellow from Government Italy

Mr. Stefano Cappiello currently works in the Law and Economics Research Department of the Bank of Italy, where he carries out legal research following a "positive" as well as a "normative" economic approach to the analysis of the regulatory framework; his main fields of research are corporate law and financial regulation. Among his tasks he has been involved in the financial regulatory and supervision activity of the Italian Central Bank, has contributed to the recent reform of the Italian company law, has taken part in the revision process of the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance.     

After having graduated  cum laude  in law at the University of Rome in 1996, he practiced as a trainee-lawyer and qualified for the Rome Bar Association. In 1998 he attended his military service in the Italian Financial Crime Police, serving as officer in charge of legal affairs. In 1999 he gained an LL.M. from the University of Chicago. He routinely gives lectures on banking law and corporate law at the University of Rome and has participated to various conferences on the same topics. In 2006 he is expected to get his Ph.D. from the University of Viterbo in "Law and Economics."

Author of numerous scholarly publications in the areas of economic analysis of law, banking law and corporate law, he has just completed a book entitled  Directors Remuneration and Equity Based Incentives  where he analyses the Italian regulation on equity-based incentives taking into account their economic effects.

Dr. Alicia Cebada-Romero received her Master in European Union Law from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, in 1995. In 2000, she received her Doctor in Law, cum laude, from the the same institution. She was awarded with the “premio extraordinario” for her doctoral thesis and with an award from the Spanish Royal Academy of Doctors for the best thesis in the Legal and Social Studies Area. Recently she was the Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Italy.

Dr. Cebada-Romero's areas of research interest are external action of the European Union, international organizations, and international responsibility. At NYU School of Law she will be researching trade policy as a means to promote development from the perspective of the European Union.

Olivia Coldrey Global Emile Noel Fellow from Government Australia

Ms. Olivia Coldrey is a lawyer with the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC) in Sydney, Australia. She advises EFIC on the legal aspects of financing Australian exports and overseas investments, and has particular experience in structured trade finance and political risk insurance transactions. Prior to joining EFIC, Olivia worked in the finance practice of Baker & McKenzie in Sydney and Hong Kong.

Olivia received her B.Ec. from the Australian National University and her LL.B. from the University of New South Wales, Australia. She also holds a LL.M. with Merit from the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, United Kingdom. During her studies, Olivia interned with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Tanzania and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Thailand. She was also research assistant to a Member of the United Kingdom Parliament during her graduate studies in London.

Olivia is the recipient of the 2005 Fulbright Professional Business/Industry (Coral Sea) Award.  At NYU School of Law, under the auspices of the Award, Olivia will pursue her interest in international trade agreements. In particular, she will evaluate new trade opportunities for Australian business and the U.S. Government arising from liberalization of the U.S. Government procurement market, pursuant to the recently concluded Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement.

Ms. Cathryn Costello holds a BCL from University College Cork, Ireland; a LLM from the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium; and a BL from the Honorable Society of King's Inns, Ireland. In October 2003, she took up a Senior Research Fellowship in Public and EC Law at Worcester College, Oxford University, United Kingdom. She is currently working on a monograph on EU immigration law. From 1998 to 2003, she was Lecturer in European Law at the Law School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where she taught the mandatory general course on EU law as well as advanced courses in various other aspects of EU law and WTO law. From 2000 to 2003, she also held the position of Director of the Irish Centre for European Law. She has published on EU equality, immigration and constitutional law, and has co-edited a major volume on the new equality directives titled Equality in Diversity: The New Equality Directives , ed. Costello and Barry, Dublin: ICEL No 29, 2003.

Dr. Jean d’Aspremont Lynden received his PhD from the University of Louvain, Belgium, in August. He received his LLM from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. His doctoral research was devoted to the topic of Non-Democratic States and International Law, a research conducted in an empirical perspective (publication in 2006). He is also the author of various articles in the Revue générale de droit international public (RGDIP) or the Revue belge de droit international (RBDI) on questions pertaining to unilateral acts of States or normativity in International Law. He contributed to the third edition of the commentary of the United Nations Charter as well. Dr. d'Aspremont Lynden has also been a correspondent for the Bulletin of Legal Developments published by the British Institute for International and Comparative Law for several years. At a domestic level, he has written a couple of articles on issues related to the exercise of universal jurisdiction or the relation between international law and municipal law.

Dr. d'Aspremont Lynden has taught International Law at the University of Louvain for 4 years where he has been in charge of seminars and examination. He has also taken part in several conferences where he delivered speeches. At the last research forum of the European Society of International Law (ESIL), he made a contribution on the Creation of Democratic States through International Administration of Territory. In 2004, he was a member of the International Law Seminar (ILS) set up under the auspices of the United Nations International Law Commission. In August 2003, he was a visiting researcher at McGill University, Canada. During the summer of 2005 he was invited by the National Univeristy of Burundi to be a professor of a general course in International Law. As a Global Crystal Eastman Research Fellow at NYU School of Law, he is engaged in a research on the Effects of War on International Treaties.

Rabbi David Flatto received a BA from Yeshiva University, United States, in 1994. He then continued into law school earning a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, United States, in 1997. In 1998 he obtained Ordination from Yeshiva University and is currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, United States. He has written and lectured on Maimonides, Jewish legal philosophy and the critical and historical study of rabbinics.

His current research focuses on the interdisciplinary field of law and Jewish studies, and particularly topics in rabbinic jurisprudence. This research entails analyzing various aspects of the rabbinic judicial system, including issues of legal procedure and governance, as theoretically envisioned and actually implemented in late antiquity. A comparative perspective, assessing the rabbinic system alongside other early imperial and religious legal systems, is also employed in his study.

Dr. Frank Haldemann is a Global Research Fellow and Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Fellow. His research encompasses international human rights law, international criminal law, constitutional law, legal history, legal philosophy and bioethics. He is particulary interested in exploring issues at the border between law and ethics. At NYU School of Law, he will work on the question of transitional justice as an emerging field of international law.

In 1999, Dr. Haldemann received his lic.iur., cum laude, from University of Fribourg, Switzerland, after completing a year in the Erasmus Exchange Program at the University of Vienna, Austria. From 1999 to 2001, he worked as a legal researcher for the Independent Commission of Experts: Switzerland–Second World War. In 2002, he obtained his LLM degree in Legal Theory and History, with merit, from the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, where he was awarded the British Chevening Scholarship. He wrote a doctoral thesis in the field of legal philosophy and constitutional law titled Responsibility as a Constitutional Principle and, in February 2004, earned his PhD in Law, magna cum laude, from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. In 2003, he became a research assistant/junior lecturer (maître assistant) at the Bioethics Center of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Haldemann has carried out several research and consulting projects for the Swiss Federal Administration. He is a committee member of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Ethics.

Professor Changyin Han is Professor of Law at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Law School, China. He received his PhD in law from Renmin University of China in 2001. His major fields of research and teaching are bankruptcy law, corporate law and commercial law. Before joining the Shanghai Jiao Tong University faculty, he was dean of the Henan University Law School, China. To date he has published more than 40 academic papers and articles, and chief-authored or co-authored more than ten books on various legal areas.

Dr. Xin He is a lecturer in the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, China. He obtained his LL.B. and LL.M. from Peking University, China, and his J.S.M. and J.S.D. degrees from Stanford University, United States, where he was an Asia-Pacific Scholar. He has published in  Law & Society Review ,  The International Journal of the Sociology of Law ,  Canadian Journal of Law and Society ,  Stanford Journal of International Law ,  Columbia Journal of Asia Law ,  Australian Journal of Asian Law , and many Chinese journals.

His research interests include legal enforcement, law and court, law in transition economies, and property law. At NYU School of Law, he will conduct empirical research into the Chinese court system, including caseload change, litigants’ confidence toward the courts, and the relation between the courts and enterprises.

Chee Youn Hwang Global Fellow from Government Republic of Korea (South Korea)

Dr. Chee Youn Hwang was awarded his Ph.D. in Law at Yonsei University Graduate School, Republic of Korea, in 1996. He received his LL.B. and LL.M. from the same institution in 1985 and 1987, respectively. Since 1996, he has worked as the Constitution Research Officer (career law clerk) at the Constitutional Court of Korea.

In 2001, as a fellowship holder from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he performed research into a matter of the temporary injunction in the constitutional adjudication at the Institute of Public Law, Bonn University, Germany. In 2003, he participated in the 42nd session of Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO) as a delegate of the Republic of Korea.

Dr. Hwang has published numerous articles on a wide range of topics in constitutional law and constitutional litigation law. In 2005, he published recently a collection of poems entitled “A Message to the Revolutionaries” and two books:  The History of Korean Constitutional Law and the Right to Life , and  The Path Trod by a Constitutional Scholar: What is a Constitution .

Mr. Nanda Kumar Krishnachar has served as a faculty member in law for four years. For the academic year 2004-05 he was a serving on the faculty at Gujarat National Law University, India. His area of interest is environmental law; he has presented his papers in national level seminars and workshops, and has published articles in a variety of journals and web pages on various topics of interest.

Mr. Nanda Kumar Krishnachar was born in the Bangalore District, Karnataka State, India. He completed his schooling in Bangalore and holds a graduation degree (B.A.L.), professional degree (LL.B.) and a post-graduate degree (LL.M.) in Law from, Bangalore University, India. For post-graduation degree in law he focused on environment law. Having been introduced to the subject in post-graduate studies, he now aspires to study and understand environmentalism. With the exposure and experience he received from the past four years of studying the domain of environmental science in various capacities, he has formulated a fundamental hypothesis that all efforts in protecting the environment are in vein because mankind has not ascertained the clear and specific areas of interdependence of regional and global environment.

During his career as an academician, he would like to pursue his studies in the field of the environment in order to plan and coordinate the development of a knowledge bank which provides a basis to understand the intrinsic dependence of various factors in the global environment. A step towards these career objectives is the current proposal for research as a Hauser Research Scholar at NYU School of Law, 'A Study of Regional and International Factors Causing Impediments for Transfer of Safe and Eco-friendly Technology.' 

Satoko Kitamura Global Japanese Federation of Bar Fellow Japan

Ms. Satoko Kitamura graduated from Keio University, Japan, with an LL.B. degree in 1996 and passed the bar examination in Japan in 1997. After completing the training program of the Judicial Research and Training Center established by the Supreme Court of Japan, she was registered as a lawyer with the Japan Federation of Bar Association (J.F.B.A.) and admitted to the Tokyo Bar Association (T.B.A.) in April 2000.

Ms. Kitamura has created a niche for herself as a legal specialist in human rights for foreigners in Japan. She has been active in defending foreigners against deportation, and her many high profile cases have attracted media coverage and include those for refugees from Afghanistan, an Iranian family, and a young orphaned Thai girl.

Ms. Kitamura has been a vice-chairperson of the “Committee for the Protection of Foreigner Human Rights” of the T.B.A. since April 2002, and in 2003, she was selected as Chairperson of the project team to eradicate the harassment of the children of Koreans living in Japan.

Ms. Kitamura became a member of the Committee of Human Rights Protection of the J.F.B.A. in 2003. In January 2004, after joining the executive committee of the J.F.B.A., she was involved in drafting the Fundamental Law for Human Rights for Foreigners and in charge of planning the J.F.B.A. Symposium, which was held in October 2004 with the aim of enacting the law.

Dr. Shahar Lifshitz is a senior lecturer, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He received a Bachelor Degree in Law and Psychology from Bar-Ilan University in 1996, and his PhD in Law from the same institution in 2002. His doctoral dissertation, which received a distinction, is titled Contractual Regulation of Spousal Relationship in Civil Law . Dr. Lifshitz's areas of academic interest are contractual law and family law especially the philosophical basis of these fields. In 2004, he won the Alon scholarship for the "excellent scientist," awarded by the Higher Council for Academic Studies in Israel which fully sponsors young scholars in their university positions for three years. In 2005, he won the Rothschild Fellowship for post-doctorate program as well as the Fulbright Award.

Dr. Lifshitz is a researcher in the Israeli Institute for Democracy, which advances a process of legislation for an accepted constitution for Israel. His specific task is to suggest a version for a law which will regulate the registration of secular spouses in Israel to the civil spousal register. He participates in the meetings of the legislative committee of the "Kneset" and counseling of the legislators in family law issues. He is Legislative Committee Member of the Ministry of Justice on the Israeli law for the rights of children. He lectures at seminars for judges and lawyers in the fields of family law and contract law. Finally, Dr. Lifshitz was appointed to a judge of the special court of adhesion contracts

Recently, his first book Cohabitation Law in Israel from the Perspective of a Civil Law Theory of the Family , written in Hebrew and published by Haifa University Press in 2005, was awarded The Bahat Prize. Dr. Lifshitz is currently editing his second book Civil Regulation of Spousal Regulation for publication by The Harry and Michael Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His publication list includes, among others:

"The Future of Secular Family Law in the Next Fifty Years: Classical Liberalism vs. Commuinitarian Liberalism," Bar-Ilan Law Studies 17 (1) 2001 159.

"A Civil Reorientation in Israeli Family Law," ed. By Prof. Yedidia Z. Stern & Dr. Yaffa Zilbershats, Tzivyon (3) 2002.

"Equality in Marriage, the Right to Divorce and Autonomy of Communitarian–," Tel Aviv University Law Review , 27 2003, 139. (Hebrew)

"The External Rights of Cohabitations," Israel Law Review , 37 (2) 346.

At NYU School of Law, he will work on projects in the subjects of cohabitation law and property relationship between spouses as well as on project deals with "Unconscionability Contracts: A Jewish Law Perspective."

Rufus Pichler Global Engelberg Fellow from Practice Germany

Mr. Rufus Pichler is currently on leave from his position as an attorney in the Technology Transactions Group of Morrison & Foerster LLP in San Francisco. His practice at Morrison & Foerster focuses primarily on commercial transactions involving intellectual property, including among other things patent, know-how, and other license agreements, as well as development, manufacturing, supply, distribution, and other transactions in the technology and life sciences industries.

Mr. Pichler has specific experience in international intellectual property and commercial law including European Union and German law. He is admitted to practice in California and in Germany and has assisted clients from Asia, Australia, Europe, and the United States in various international transactions. In 2004 and 2005 Mr. Pichler served as adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law where he taught International Intellectual Property Law.

Before joining Morrison & Foerster, from 1997 to 1999, Mr. Pichler held a research and teaching position at the Institute for Information, Telecommunications, and Media Law, University of Muenster, Germany, a leading academic institution in the field of Intellectual Property and Information Law. Among other things, Mr. Pichler taught classes on international intellectual property law, electronic commerce, and legal aspects of the information society. He published several articles and is a frequent speaker on IP/IT subjects. Mr. Pichler is the author of the chapter on international jurisdiction in one of Germany’s leading treatises on online and multimedia law ("Handbuch Multimedia-Recht") and also wrote a book on the law of electronic payment systems.

Mr. Pichler received his J.D. from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 1995. He also received a J.S.M. (Master of the Science of Law) from Stanford Law School, United States, in 2000.

Dr. Julie Ringelheim has been a researcher at the Center of Philosophy of Law of the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, since 2003. In 1998, she graduated with a degree in law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and was awarded an LLM in 1999 from Trinity Hall College, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, where she specialized in international law and jurisprudence. Between 1999 and 2005, she wrote her PhD thesis at the European University Institute, Italy, on Cultural Diversity in the European Court of Human Rights’ Case Law . She also was a visiting researcher at the University of Paris XI in Spring 2003. Her areas of interests include international human rights law, minority protection, anti-discrimination law, public international law, legal and political theory.

Her current research focuses on the tension between the promotion of equality and the protection of personal data. It is based on a comparative study of the legislation and policies adopted by the U.S. and several European countries to combat racial, ethnic or religious discrimination in the fields of employment, education and housing. The project seeks to define ways in which the sometimes conflicting imperatives of the affirmative pursuance of equality and the protection of personal data may be reconciled.

In her research and publications, she has been most concerned with questions of gender, citizenship and constitutionalism, gender-based violence, and family law reform in the Caribbean. She has been involved with a number of regional initiatives that have family law and family policy reform in mind, including the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States Family Law and Domestic Violence Judicial and Legislative Reform Project and the UNIFEM/UWI Child Support, Poverty and Family Responsibilities Research Project in the Caribbean. She is also a member of the Barbados Family Law Council and a member of a Barbados women's advocacy group established in 2003 to press for legislation dealing with sexual harassment.

Dr. Benjamin Straumann completed his doctoral dissertation ( insigni cum laude ) on the classical foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural and international law in 2005 at the University of Zurich after studies in Zurich and Rome. He is currently a Global Research Fellow in the Hauser Global Law School Program. He is also an Alberico Gentili Fellow in the Program in the History and Theory of International Law. Previously, Benjamin has worked for the Swiss Mission to the United Nations and was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. His research interests include the history of natural and international law, natural rights and social contract theories as well as the early modern reception of classical antiquity.

His publications include "'Ancient Caesarian Lawyers' in a State of Nature: Roman Tradition and Natural Rights in Hugo Grotius' De iure praedae ," Political Theory (forthcoming); "The Right to Punish as a Just Cause of War in Hugo Grotius' Natural Law," Studies in the History of Ethics (forthcoming); and an article on Rome and her influence in modern culture and scholarship in Brill's New Pauly . Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World, ed. M. Landfester (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, forthcoming).

Dr. Michal Tamir graduated in 1995 with her LLB, magna cum laude, from the University of Haifa, Israel. She then became a clerk for Israeli Supreme Court Justice Itzhak Zamir. After her admission to the Israeli Bar, she served a short time as a legal assistant in the Supreme Court. In 1999, she received her LLM, summa cum laude, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and, in 2005, her LL.D. from the same institution. The topic of her doctoral dissertation is Selective Enforcement . She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Shaárei Mishpat College of Law, Israel.

Throughout her studies Dr. Tamir has won numerious prizes. Among the courses she currently teaches are Administrative Law, Criminal Procedure, Law of Tenders, Human Rights in Private Law, Equality in Law, and Freedom of Occupation. Her main work focuses on issues concerning administrative and constitutional law. She published several articles in the leading Israeli law journals, and wrote the entry "Israel" for an international encyclopedia.

Professor Eyal Zamir was born in 1961 in Moshav Hayogev, Israel. He holds an LLB (1982) and Dr.Jur. (1989) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. After spending one year at Harvard Law School as a Visiting Researcher (1990-91), he was appointed Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University. In 1996-97 he was a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School. In 1998 he became full professor and in the same year was appointed Augusto Levi Professor of Commercial Law at the Hebrew University; he then served as Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University from 2002 to 2005.

Professor Zamir’s research interests include contract law and contract theory, economic analysis of law, and proprietary aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict. He authored or edited ten books and published more than twenty articles in Israeli and American law reviews, including The American Journal of International Law , the Columbia Law Review , and the Virginia Law Review .

Since 1987, Professor Zamir has been a member of the Israeli Codification of Private Law Committee, headed by Chief Justice Aharon Barak. In 1995 he participated in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations on the Interim Agreement concerning the West Bank and Gaza Strip ("Oslo B"). In 2004-05 he chaired a Committee (appointed by Israel’s Attorney General) that examined the Land Registry in the West Bank.

Professor Zamir has been awarded numerous fellowships and awards, including the Y. Sussman Law Prize (1988) and the Hebrew University President’s Prize for Excellent Young Scholar named after Y. Ben Porat (1994, first recipient).

2004-2005 Academic Year

Dr. Sanem Baykal was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1969. She obtained her LL.B. in 1990 from Ankara University, Law Faculty and her LL.M. in European Law from University of London in 1994 with the Jean Monnet Scholarship of the European Commission. In 2001 she received her Ph.D. from Ankara University in European Union Law. During her Ph.D. studies she conducted research in Queen Mary College, University of London due to the award she received from Turkish Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Sanem Baykal is Assistant Professor of European Union Law at Ankara University, Faculty of Law since November 2003. Prior to her appointment she was a research assistant at the European Studies Department of Ankara University, Institute of Social Sciences.

Dr. Baykal has published articles, book chapters and monographs mainly on EU Institutional/Constitutional Law and Turkey-EU Relations. Her current fields of research are constitutionalization process, legitimacy and democratic deficit in the European Union. Among her most recent works, an article entitled "Significance of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in Context of the Emerging European Polity" in Maria Gavouneli and Vangelis Kyriakopoulos (eds.),  Olympia III: Human Rights in the 21 st Century , Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publishers, Athens, 2003 and her paper presented in the ECSA-C 6th Biennial Conference "A Constitution for Europe? Governance and Policy Making in the European Union" in Montreal, Canada on 27-29 May 2004 can be cited. She is also the co-author of the book chapter "Turkey-European Union Relations: 1990-2001" in Baskin Oran (ed.),  Turkish Foreign Policy, Vol. II , Iletisim Publications, Istanbul, 2001, with Professor Tugrul Arat.

Dr. Alexander Boraine was born and educated in Cape Town, South Africa. He was awarded his PhD at Drew University Graduate School.

He was a member of the opposition Progressive Party in South Africa's Parliament for 12 years before resigning to establish a non-governmental organization which focused on promoting negotiation politics. In 1995, he was appointed by President Nelson Mandela as Vice Chairperson of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

In 2001, he was appointed President of the International Center for Transitional Justice in New York and is now the Chairperson. In 1999, he was appointed Professor of Law at the NYU School of Law and is now a Visiting Professor at the Law School.

Azhar Cachalia Senior Global Fellow from Government South Africa

Azhar Cachalia is a judge of the High Court of South Africa based in Johannesburg since January 2001. Prior to this he practiced as an attorney at Cheadle Thompson and Haysom Attorneys, where he was the firm's managing partner. As a practitioner he gained much experience in human rights and constitutional law.

He earned his LL.B. degree from the University of Witwatersand (Wits) in 1983 and a diploma in Income Tax Law also from Wits in 1994.

He had a long involvement in the anti-apartheid struggle and was first detained by the police as a student activist in 1978. In 1981, he was banned for five years. In terms of this banning order, he was prohibited from leaving his magisterial district in Benoni and being in the company of more than two persons at any one time. The banning order was lifted in 1983 when he played a prominent role in the formation of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the United Democratic Front. In 1985 he was elected national treasurer of the United Democratic Front and held this position until the UDF was disbanded in 1991, following the unbanning of the African National Congress.

He was also detained in 1981 prior to his banning order and again during the state of emergency in 1986. In 1988 he was again served with a banning order which effectively prohibited him from participating in the activities of the United Democratic Front. Between 1981 and 1989 his passport was withdrawn and he was prohibited from leaving the country.

During the 1980's as a practicing lawyer, he was involved in the defence of anti-apartheid activists, as well as ANC guerrillas. He was also involved in challenging various provisions of the state of emergency in court.

After 1990, he was a legal advisor of the African National Congress and represented the ANC in the Goldstone Commission of Inquiry. In 1992 he was awarded a fellowship at Yale University where he studied Constitutional Law. In 1995 he was appointed as an advisor to the Constitutional Assembly.  

As adviser to the Ministry of Safety and Security, he chaired the drafting team which was responsible for drafting the Police Act which came into operation on the 15 th of October 1995. In addition, he has been intimately involved in the various processes around the re-organisation and transformation of the South African Police Service. In 1996 he was appointed to the post of Secretary for Safety and Security.  

After serving four years in this capacity, he returned to legal practise for a year before being elevated to the bench in January 2001. After completing his fellowship at NYU he will return to South Africa where he will take up an acting appointment in the Supreme Court of Appeal.

Raphaël De Coninck (PhD in Economics, University of Chicago) specializes in the fields of Empirical Microeconomics and Law and Economics, and is particularly interested in providing empirical evidence for key legal issues. In his most recent research papers, he estimated the effect of laws reducing the length of the workweek in France and analyzed retroactivity in criminal law from an economic point of view. His next research projects include evaluating the returns on spending in judicial systems across the world, and estimating the factors affecting legal dispute settlements.

In addition to his PhD, Raphaël holds degrees in economics and law from the University of Liège in Belgium , and has spent a semester as an Erasmus exchange student at the Faculty of Law at Humboldt University in Berlin. He has also taught the course Economic Analysis of Law at the University of Chicago, and has spent a summer as an intern at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C.

Raphaël is a native French speaker, and is also fluent in English and Spanish. Find him here: http://www.crai.com/ecp/staff/deconinck_r.htm

Robert Dufresne is an NYU School of Law J.S.D. student from Canada, specializing in international law. His academic interests include public international law, international law of human rights, the law of the use of force, history and theory of international law, and globalization. His dissertation focuses on the involvement of foreign corporations in commercial transactions embedded in internal or transboundary conflicts and examines the forms of responsibility under international law entailed thereby. It deals for instance with the extractive industry's exploitation of resources located in regions under guerrilla control (e.g. as has occurred in Liberia or the Democratic Republic of the Congo) or in close collaboration with state authorities of an oppressive regime. He studies under the supervision of Professor Benedict Kingsbury.

Robert holds an LL.B/B.C.L. ( Distinction ) from McGill University in Montreal. After having clerked with Justice André Brossard of the Quebec Court of Appeal, he graduated on top of NYU's LL.M. (International Legal Studies) program in 2000. In 2000-2001, he served as a law clerk with the International Court of Justice in The Hague, The Netherlands. Robert has also worked as a research assistant for Professor Alain Pellet during the 2001 session of the International Law Commission. He has recently published articles on international IP rights regimes and distributive justice, as well as on the difficulty to attach international legal responsibility to oil corporations more or less directly involved in patterns of organized violence instrumental to their activities. 

Xiaotong Feng Global Fellow from Government China

Having graduated from Peking University in 1990, Xiaotong Feng currently works in the legal office of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Public Security as the deputy division director and a researcher. She is responsible for legal study and research related to various kinds of police operations, including setting up a supervising and law enforcement regulating system to make sure that police officers perform their duty properly. Xiaotong has participated in key research projects focused on law enforcement, such as "the working codes and procedures of police station of Beijing public security bureau."

Having served as the guideline and legal mentor for police officers at the operation level, Xiaotong now serves as the chief editor of the first internal periodical entitled "law enforcement of capital police" which was launched in 1996 under her initiative and efforts. The periodical has circulated over 80 issues and proved very helpful in exchanging experiences of police officers and improving their working abilities of law enforcement.

She is the author of an article entitled "How to Strengthen Investigation in Law Enforcement" in a Beijing police journal in 2004; a paper entitled "Transparency of Law Enforcement" published in the magazine of police study in 2003; and one chapter of "The Study of Police Law Enforcement" published in 2003.

Kazuko Ito Global Fellow from Practice Japan

Kazuko Ito is registered as a lawyer with the Tokyo Bar Association. In 1994 she became a member of the Criminal Defense Committee in Tokyo Bar Association (until 2000) and the Committee of Children's Human Rights and Juvenile Law in Tokyo Bar Association (until 2002). As a criminal lawyer, she has been handling many criminal and juvenile cases. In particular, she is a defense attorney of Retrial of Death Penalty - Nabari Case and Juvenile False Charge Case "Chofu Station Violence Case" both of which are supported by Japan Federation of Bar Association (JFBA).

Her experience with a false criminal charge case led to her becoming involved with the promotion and introduction of a jury system into Japan within the Bar Association. After the Saiban-In system--the Japanese civil participation system into criminal procedure--was proposed by the government, she worked in and outside the Bar Association to make this system useful and reliable as well as to advance a radical reform of criminal justice system in Japan. Since 2000, she has been a member of the Committee for Judicial Reform Promotion Center in JFBA. And in 2002 she established a citizens group for promotion this reform process, and worked as a member of the Steering Committee until the "Saiban-In system" was enacted in July 2004.

Kazuko Ito also works for human rights in the area of children's rights and women's rights, and peace. She handled the U.S. Yokota Air Base Pollution Lawsuit, a case about students' rights in some high schools in Japan, and sexual exploitation against Asian children by Japanese men, etc. She also works with some NGO groups in Japan for human rights and peace. She participated in the U.N. Beijing Women's Conference in 1995, and in the Hague Citizen's conference for Peace as a chairperson of "Japan Day" in 1999. She was involved with a movement to enact into law the ban of sexual exploitation against children and child pornography. Recently, she was involved in humanitarian aid activity for Iraqi children through a Japanese citizen's group. And she was involved with the rescue action of three Japanese hostages in Iraq, and working as their representative.  

Shmuel Leshem is a J.S.D. Candidate at New York University School of Law. His main area of academic interest is law and economics, focusing on game theory and the law. Shmuel received a joint degree in Law and Economics ( magna cum laude ) from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1997. In addition, he has an M.B.A. in Finance from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an LL.M. degree from New York University School of Law.  

Dr. Li Luo is an associate professor at the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPSL) in Beijing, China. She started her teaching career after receiving her LLB and LLM in 1993 and 1996, respectively, from CUPSL. In 2003 she finished her doctoral studies at the University of Cologne, Germany with honors magna cum laude . From January to June 2004 she taught at the College of Staten Island, the City University of New York. Her research interests include corporation law and economic reform in China and intellectual property law. Presently she is very interested in information and technology law and policy, with a focus on the intersection of information technology and intellectual property law. She has published books and articles mostly in Chinese and German.

Lauri Mälksoo is currently the head of international and EC law lectureship at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He studied law in Tartu (LL.B.) and Göttingen and got his masters degree at Georgetown University Law Center. He defended his doctoral thesis "Illegal Annexation and State Continuity: the Case of the Incorporation of the Baltic States by the USSR" at Humboldt University Berlin. The thesis was published in 2003 in Erik Castrén Institute's monography series of Martinus Nijhoff. Beside working at the university, he has also served as the international and EC law adviser of the Legal Chancellor (ombudsman) of the Republic of Estonia. He is also serving as a member of the EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights.  

At NYU, he is pursuing a project on history and theory of international law. On the basis of the works and lives of five consequent international law professors at the university of Dorpat/Jur'ev/Tartu, he is studying the use of historical argument in international law discourse for the formation of political identities. 

Avishai Margalit was born in Israel (Palestine) in 1939, and was raised and educated in Jerusalem. After high school, army service and a stay in a kibbutz, he began his university studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. While a student, he spent several years as an educator in a youth village for new immigrant children.He obtained his BA in philosophy and economics in 1963 and an MA in philosophy (summa cum laude) in 1965. His doctoral dissertation, on TheCognitive Status of Metaphors, was written under the supervision of the late Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, whose assistant and associate he was for several years. He received his PhD, summa cum laude, in 1970. He joined the faculty of the department of philosophy at the Hebrew University in 1970, where he stayed ever since (serving as its Chairman twice), and where he is the Schulman Professor of Philosophy.

Avishai Margalit was a British Council Scholar at Oxford University, and a Tutor at The Queens College, Oxford (1968-70); a visiting Scholar at Harvard University (197405); a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford (1979-80); a Visiting Professor at the Free University of Berlin and a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, Berlin (1984-5); a Visiting Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford (1990); a Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University (1995-6), and a Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York (2001-2002). In addition, he held short-term visiting professorships at the Central European University in Prague, and at the European University in Florence.

In May 1999 he delivered the Horkheimer Lectures, at the University of Frankfurt, on The Ethics of Memory.

On December 14, 2001 Avishai Margalit received the Spinoza Lens Prize, awarded by the International Spinoza Foundation, for "a significant contribution to the normative debate on society."

In 2001-2002 he delivered the inaugural lectures at Oxford University as the first Bertelsman Professor there.

In the summer of 2005 he shall be the Tanner Lecturer at Stanford University.

In addition to a number of books, Margalit has published widely in various philosophical journals, on a variety of philosophical topics, including philosophy of language, logical paradoxes and rationality, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. His most recent book is Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies (with Ian Buruma), New York: The Penguin Press, 2004.

He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. Margalit was among the founders of Peace Now, of which he still is an active member. He is married (to the philosopher Edna Ullmann-Margalit); they have four children.

Ana Peyro is an international lawyer whose research focuses on the law of international organizations, enforcement of international law, peacekeeping, international criminal law and international environmental law. At NYU School of Law, she will work on questions of international law dealing with enforcement (The Position of International Law in Recent Supreme Court Decisions, The Role of the Private Sector in the Observance Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, etc.)

A native of Spain, Peyro received her education in Switzerland, Italy and in her home country, where she obtained a Master's Degree in Law at University of Valencia in 1998. She then moved to France to do a Master's Degree in International Law and Law of International Organizations at University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). At the same time, she completed a Master's Degree in Constitutional Rights and Duties in Spain.

In 1999, she became an Assistant Researcher and, in 2001, an Assistant Professor at Sorbonne University and prepared, from 1999 to 2004, a Doctoral thesis on "The Relations between the United Nations and Regional Organizations Regarding Enforcement Action" which will be published in 2005 (Bruylant). She has taught international law, constitutional law, juridical methodology and international relations.

In the field of international law, Peyro has published a book on "Universal Jurisdiction for Crimes Against Humanity" and several articles on other international law topics. She has obtained various distinctions and grants. She is a member of the French Society for International Law (SFDI), of the Centre de droit international de Paris I (CEDIN-Paris I) and the Centre de Recherches et d'études sur les droits de l'Homme et le droit humanitaire (CREDHO-Paris XI), of the Editorial Committee of the Bancaja Euromediterranean Courses of International Law (CEBDI, Castellón, Spain) and of the journal Actualité et Droit International (ADI).

Eva studied law, philosophy and sinology at Heidelberg University, Germany, and graduated from there with a law degree in 1996. After obtaining her professional qualification as a German lawyer she practiced law for a while at Baker & McKenzie, Frankfurt, and then went to London to do research. After taking an LLM degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, in 2000, she began writing a PhD at University College London, on rights protection and justice in contemporary China. In 2003, Eva was one of eight European participants in the EU-China judicial and legal co-operation programme in Beijing. She gained her PhD degree from the University of London in January 2005, having passed the examination in September 2004.

Her main research interests are Chinese law and legal philosophy. With her current research project at NYU, a case study on land seizures, she is exploring how property law and constitutional rights protection could be combined in China to address problems of legal certainty, social deprivation and justice.

Dr. Arkadiusz Radwan obtained Master and Doctoral degrees from Cracow (Uniwersystet Jagiellonski) and LL.M. form the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Germany).

He also had numerous study and research stays in Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität), Cologne (Rechtszentrum für Europäische und Internationale Zusammenarbeit), Copenhagen (Copenhagen Business School), Florence (European University Institute) and Ghent (Universiteit Gent).

Since 2003 Arkadiusz Radwan has been assistant professor at the Frycz Modrzewski Cracow College and the Centre for European Studies, Jagiellonian University Cracow. He was also visiting professor at the University of Rzeszow and the Fachhochschule für Medienmanagement, St. Pölten (Austria). His major fields of research are European, International and Comparative Company Law, International Contract Law, Broadcasting Law, and Legal Education. He attended numerous national and international conferences on the above-mentioned topics giving speeches and presenting papers. He also authored one monograph and several journal articles.

Since April 2004 he has managed an international research project under the running title "European Company Law after Inspire Art and EU-Enlargement." At NYU he pursued a research project on corporate law federalism in the EU-U.S. comparison.

Boris Rotenberg's research interests include media law, competition law (antitrust), free speech theory, intellectual property rights, and e-government; mainly in the European context. For the Jean Monnet Center and Hauser Global Law School Program, he will further develop his ideas on the intriguing relation between European software regulation and the right to freedom of expression.

He received his basic legal education at Leuven (Belgium). He then read for the Magister Juris degree at Oxford (Freshfields & Artal scholarships - Honours & Clifford Chance Prize (best performance)). Between 2000 and 2004, he wrote a PhD thesis at the European University Institute ( Italy), on "The Legal Regulation of Communications Bottlenecks in the European Digital Broadcasting Market." During these doctoral studies, he was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (Spring 2002).

Boris is an editor of the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy( www.ijclp.org ), of the European Political Economy Review, and a contributing editor to the monthly European Current Law. In addition, he was a 'stagiaire' with the European Commission, DG Information Society (2004), and a trainee with the BBC (2001), Clifford Chance (1999), and PricewaterhouseCoopers (1998).

Theodor Schilling Global Emile Noel Fellow from Government Germany & Luxembourg

Theodor Schilling is a lawyer-reviser in the European Court of Justice's translation directorate and an extraordinary (apl.) professor at Humboldt University. He regularly teaches international human rights law and the law of the WTO. Recent publications include a textbook on the international protection of human rights (2004), an article on the protection of human rights against Security Council resolutions (ZaöRV, issue 64/2, 2004) and an article on The Court of Justice's Revolution (ELRev. 2002, 445).

After having studied at the universities of Erlangen and Würzburg, a practical court training and a stint at the Bavarian Ministry of Finance, Theodor Schilling joined the ECJ's translation directorate where, with some interruptions, he has stayed since. The interruptions include a three years lectureship at the University of Edinburgh, a period as law clerk in Judge Bahlmann's chambers at the ECJ, visiting professorships at German universities and an EU Fellowship at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, United States.

Theodor Schilling gained an LL.M. from Edinburgh University, a Dr.jur.utr. from the University of Würzburg and a Dr.jur.habil. from Humboldt University. As a Global Fellow, he performed research on the constitutionalization of international law as a possible answer to globalization.

She is a Full Tenured Researcher Fellow at CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), and at the Law School of the University Paris I-La Sorbonne (France), since 2001. She is Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan-Paris since 2004, and International Lawyer at Paris and Madrid Bars. Marthe Torre-Schaub has a PhD in private law from the Université Paris X-Nanterre. She is a Global Researcher Fellow and a Fulbright Grantee.

She is working on Global Climate Change risks and Precautionary Principle (Europe and US comparison). She is studing as well new law perspectives in the implementation of the flexibility mechanisms and economic tools in Environmental law (Europe and US comparison), and on the different perspectives of the notion of responsibility, property and public goods between US and Europe.

Her PHD summa cum laude has been published as a book in 2002 " Essai sur la construction juridique de la catégorie de marché », Paris, éd LGDJ. She published also several papers in international scientific reviews (« La protection juridique du climat : entre sécurité juridique et négociation économique », Revue Thémis , Universidad Nueva Lisbonne, avril- mai 2003, p. 47-71 ; « Le marché : entre ordre et désordre », Revista UMB , Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, juin 2003, p. 4-12 ; « La construction du principe de précaution à la lumière des négociations internationales dans la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique », Revue européenne de l'environnement, forthcoming, septembre-octobre 2003 ; « UK Emissions trading system : a new market has born », Revue Internationale de droit économique , Belgium, forthcoming, june 2004; « Mouvement citoyen et risques environnementaux : l'exemple de l'amiante en France », in Démocratie citoyenne et gouvernance des techniques , Odile Jacob, 2004 ; « Les biens environnementaux : qualification juridique» in Bicentenaire du Code civil français . Université Paris I, Panthéon-La Sorbonne, éd La Sorbonne, 2004).

She received her education in Spain, England and France. She obtained her LLMsumma cum laude in Law at the University of Oviedo (Spain in 1990). She then moved to France as an Erasmus Grantee to obtain a Master's Degree in Bussiness and Economic Law in 1991. In 1992, she obtained another Master's Degree in Property rights and Intellectual Property at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) as a FYCIT Fondation Grantee. At the same time, she obtained a Master's Degree summa cum laude in Contemporay History and History of Economic ideas at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She became, in 1993, a Junior Researcher and Junior Professor Assistant at the University of Paris X. The same year, the French Agency of the Research, give her a Graduate Scholarship.

In 1996 she became Full Assistant Professor at Cergy Pontoise University (Paris). In 2001 she obtained an Academic Prize of the "Chancellerie des Universités de Paris", the Dupin Aîné Prize, for her PhD and a French Ministry of Research Grant for the publication of the PhD The same year, she became a Full tenured Rechercher and Professor at the CNRS of Paris and the University of Paris I.

She is presently teaching Theory of Economic Law and Environemental Economic Perspectives and heading a research about new market-based solutions and new contractual environmental legal instruments in US and Europe Environmental Law in a comparative perspective in collaboration with the Center of Environmental Law at the Law School of New York University.

Rasmus Wandall is from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Master of Law, 2000; PhD, 2004). He has previously been a visiting scholar at Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley (2001) and at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Warsaw (2003). He has worked for the Danish Parliamentary Ombudsman (1997-1999) and recently arrives from a position in the Danish Court Administration (2004).

His main areas of interest and experience lie within the realm of criminal and sentencing law, and punishment theories and practices. But he also holds a strong interest in the study of courts and in socio-legal theory. Wandall recently completed an empirical study of sentencing decision-making in Danish county courts (Wandall, 2004). Presently he is carrying out a comparative study of legal techniques of structuring the discretion of judges in sentencing decision-making. The main purpose is to further the understanding of how principles of consistency in sentencing and of equality before the law are implemented through different techniques of structuring sentencing decision-making.

2003-2004 Academic Year

Mr. Keiji Aoyama is a senior official at the National Tax Agency (NTA) in Japan. He graduated from Tokyo University with a Master of Laws degree in 1973. He passed the highest level examination for Japanese National Government Service and joined NTA as a junior administrator. Since then, he has been engaged in a variety of jobs at NTA, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). He has been with NTA for over twenty years.

In his early years at NTA, he was engaged in planning and middle management at headquarters. After having served seven years at MOF and three years at MOFA, he returned to NTA as a senior official in charge of international taxation. Since then, he has served seven years in representing some international units in NTA, which include competent authority in charge of tax treaty issues as well as Japanese permanent delegate to the Committee on Fiscal Affairs (CFA) OECD, etc. Furthermore, he was vice chairman of the Working Party No. 6, CFA OECD, from 1998 to 2000.

Ms. Alessandra Arcuri's academic work focuses on Environmental Law and Law & Economics. Alessandra holds a law degree with honors from Rome's La Sapienza University (1997) and a LLM in Law and Economics with honors from Utrecht University (1998). On September 1999, after having trained for a short period as an acting lawyer in civil law at the Rome bar, she joined the Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics (RILE). She is currently finalizing a PhD thesis on the legal tools for the governance of catastrophic risks, next to which she teaches in the Erasmus Master Programme in Law and Economics. During this period she has also spent a term (Spring 2001) at Hamburg University as a Marie Curie Fellow.

Ms. Arcuri has published on topics of safety regulation ( Encyclopedia of Law and Economics , 1999); environmental liability in Europe ( Tijdschrift voor Milieu en Recht , 2001); the use of cost-benefit analysis in regulatory contexts ( Mercato, Concorrenza, Regole , 2001); and the history and methodology of Law and Economics ( Enciclopedia Giuridica , 2002). Her most recent work deals with the Precautionary Principle. Ms. Arcuri regularly lectures in the (post) graduate courses Economics of Public Law and Law and Economics before the Courts at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. She has also lectured on environmental law and policy at The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Sweden, at the Maastricht University in cooperation with the University of Benin, Lomè, Togo, and at the LUISS Management University of Rome, Italy.

Fellow in Law, The Queen's College, Oxford; University Lecturer in Law, Oxford University, 1999 to date. Previously: Cambridge University 1996-9; University College London 1994-6. Degrees: B.C.L., First Class, and MA, First Class (Oxford).

Research and teaching interests lie in public (constitutional and administrative) law, human rights law, anti-discrimination law and philosophy of law.

Books to date: Sexuality, Morals and Justice (London, Cassell, 1997); Public Law in a Multi-layered Constitution (ed. with P. Leyland, Oxford, Hart, 2003). Articles in Law Quarterly Review , Cambridge Law Journal , Public Law , Modern Law Review . Cited in Aston Cantlow PCC v. Wallbank [2001] EWCA Civ 713 (English Court of Appeal).

Currently completing work on textbooks for Oxford University Press (human rights law) and Thomson/Sweet & Maxwell (comparative UK/European anti-discrimination law; co-authors G.Bindman & M.Malik) and on a monograph for Hart Publishing on property and the public law-private law distinction. Also editor of the 2002 series of Oxford Amnesty Lectures concerning human rights, gender and sexuality (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Ms. Annyssa Bellal was born in 1973 and is of Swiss nationality. She obtained a first degree in international relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. As she became more interested in human rights law, she received a second degree in Law from the University of Geneva, and a Masters Degree in Philosophy of Law from the Universities of Lyon/Grenoble, France. After some experience in a human rights NGO in Colombia, she came back to the Graduate Institute of International Relations where she obtained her Masters Degree in Public International Law. Ms. Bellal began her doctoral thesis in 2000, on the influence of human rights on the evolution of public international law, while working as a research and teaching assistant at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva.

Mr. Kyoungkyou Choi graduated from the Police University with an LLB in 1991. He then received his LLM from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1996 as a Korean Government Fellow.

As a police lieutenant, he led a local police sub-station from 1994 to 1995, and taught at Police Academy from 1997 to 1999 as an Instructor. After being promoted to a Police Captain, he worked at a local police station as a deputy-chief of police for a year and a half. Then he joined the Police University as a Professor in January 2002.

After joining the Police University, he wrote the textbooks Crime Prevention (co-author with Professor Kim), Community Policing (co-author with Professor Park), Human Rights and Policing . He also authored many articles: "Juvenile Crimes," "Gun Use," "Civilian Crime Prevention Unit," "Miranda Warnings in US and Korea," etc.

Mr. Choi visited Japan, Australia and New Zealand police agencies in 2003 with the President of the University and 12 chiefs of police. He is an advisory member of Student 'Go' Club (Amateur 5 dan), and previously was head of University Faculty Tennis Club.

Dr. Jean Marc Coicaud is acting head of the United Nations University Office to the United Nations in New York. From 1996 to 2003 he served as senior academic officer in the Peace and Governance Program at the United Nations University (UNU) in Tokyo. Before joining the UNU, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as speechwriter for Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

A former fellow at Harvard University (Center for International Affairs, Department of Philosophy and Harvard Law School 1986-1992), Dr. Coicaud has held appointments as cultural attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, legislative aide with the European Parliament, associate professor at the University of Paris and visiting professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He holds a PhD in political science-law from the Sorbonne and a Doctorat d'Etat in Philosophy from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris.

He is the author of books in French on authoritarian democracy and political legitimacy (the latter published in English by Cambridge University Press in 2002). His latest books in English include, as a co-author, Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (2001), and as a co-editor, Ethics and International Affairs: Extent and Limits (2001), The Legitimacy of International Organizations (2001), and The Globalization of Human Rights (2003). His book Beyond the National Interest. The United Nations' Response to Humanitarian Crises in the Era of US Supremacy , which he wrote whilst on sabbatical with the United States Institute of Peace (Washington D.C.), was published in 2004.

Mr. Andrew Hurrell is University Lecturer in International Relations at Oxford University and a Fellow of Nuffield College. Recent publications include: (co-editor with Ngaire Woods), Inequality, Globalization and World Politics (Oxford University Press, 1999); Hedley Bull on International Society (Macmillan 2000); and (co-editor with Rosemary Foot and John Gaddis), Order and Justice in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2003). Current research interests cover two areas: first, the relationship between international law and institutions on the one hand and power and hegemony on the other; and, second, the history of international law.

Dr. Marisa Iglesias is Associate Professor of Legal Philosophy at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. She holds a law degree from the Universitat de Barcelona (1990), and a PhD in law from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (1997). She has been a visiting scholar at the European Humanities University of Minsk (Belarus), Oxford University (Balliol College), and the Law Faculty of Puerto Rico University. She has worked several times as expert-evaluator for the European Commission, and has briefly practiced law as substitute judge. Most of her research and publications focus on legal epistemology and theory of interpretation. Her main publication in those fields is the book Facing Judicial Discretion. Legal Knowledge and Right Answers Revisited , Kluwer (2001). She is now researching the moral and legal scope of individual responsibility in a global age.

Piibe Jogi graduated with the highest distinction from the Faculty of Law of Tartu University, Estonia, in 1994. She received a  Magister iuris  degree in 1996, also from Tartu University, an M.Phil. in philosophy from Cambridge University, England, in 1999, and an LL.M. from NYU in 2000. She has also been a visiting student at Helsinki University, Finland, and Oxford University, England. She taught Comparative Legal History at Uppsala University, Sweden, in 1993 and 1997, and courses in European Legal History and Legal Philosophy at Tartu University in 1994-1997. She is author of a textbook of legal philosophy which won an award as the best legal textbook published in Estonia in 1997. During her tenure as a Hauser Research Scholar, Piibe was also a J.S.D. candidate at NYU School of Law, writing a dissertation on the moral justifiability of post-socialist property restitution. She is interested in legal philosophy. 

Ms. Akitsu Kida graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the Tokyo University in 1999. In the same year, she passed the Bar Exam and was admitted to the Judicial Research and Training Center established by the Supreme Court of Japan. After completing the program, she was admitted to the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA) in 2000.

As a lawyer she has been involved in several human rights issues, with particular focus on the rights of children. She has been an active member of the International Committee on Human Rights of the JFBA and the Committee of the Children's Human Rights and Juvenile Law of the Tokyo Bar Associations. She contributed to the Second World Congress on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children as a member of the working team formed by JFBA. She also represented JFBA at the 12th session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, United Nations, the theme of which was "Trafficking in Human Beings, especially Women and Children."

Nico Krisch is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Law and Justice at NYU and a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, Germany. Previously, he was a Visiting Senior Fellow at NYU Law's Center for International Studies, and a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. After studies in law and international relations in Berlin, Geneva and Heidelberg, he has received a Ph.D. in law from the University of Heidelberg. He also holds the Diploma of European Law of the Academy of European Law in Florence, Italy. Nico is the author of "Selbstverteidigung und kollektive Sicherheit" ( Self-defense and Collective Security , 2001) and of several articles on the United Nations collective security system, on the use of force in international law, on international and European human rights law, and on the role of the United States in international law. He is currently pursuing projects on the role of constitutionalism in a fragmenting legal order, on hegemony in international law, and on global administrative law.  

Dr. Alyona Kucher is a Professor at the Moscow State University, School of Law. She received her PhD from Moscow State University and specialized in contract law (with concentrations in contract formation and precontractual relations) and international private law.

Dr. Kucher has authored several articles and a book on contract formation and foreign investments in Russia.

Yigal Mersel graduated in 1996 with an LL.B. degree from Hebrew University,  summa cum laude, while winning numerous prizes for outstanding achievements. He then took part in a research project of the European Union on international law and the status of Jerusalem in future peace negotiations. He later became law clerk for the president of the Israeli Supreme Court, Justice Aharon Barak. After his admission to the Israeli bar, Yigal worked from 1997 until 2003 as senior assistant to Justice Barak, in charge of numerous judicial and managerial issues, including comparative law research in a large variety of legal issues. He was also in charge of international relations of the Israeli Supreme Court as well as the Israeli representative to the Venice Commission at the Council of Europe.

At the same time, he continued his legal education, receiving in 1998 an LL.M. from the Hebrew University,  summa cum laude . In 2000 he was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany. He also won the Wolf foundation prize for outstanding achievements. In 2002 he received a doctorate degree in law from the Hebrew University. His doctoral thesis was entitled "The Constitutional Status of Political Parties." Since 2002 he has been a lecturer of constitutional law at the Hebrew University. His main focus is institutional constitutional law, including political parties, parliamentary law and election law. Yigal is a Fulbright Scholar and will also be serving as an Emile Noel Fellow. 

Mr. Tatsuya Murata graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1990. He passed the First-rank National Public Service Examination of Law in 1989 and, following graduation, he worked for the National Police Agency (NPA) which is an administrative law enforcement agency working on criminal investigation, crime prevention, national security, protection of traffic safety, etc. While at NPA, he gave legal advice on investigative activities to local police and played an important role in making a draft to amend the Criminal Law and the Criminal Procedure Act against high-tech crimes as an assistant manager of the Investigative Planning Section. He also passed the National Bar Exam in 1995 and finished the professional legal training.

Mr. Mitsuhiro Nagai graduated from Chuo University with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1986. After passing the National Law Examination, he joined the Kobe Bar Association in 1995. That same year, Kobe suffered a massive earthquake and Mr. Nagai was active in promoting tort litigation for victims of "defective housing" in the Kobe region. He has also been active in promoting pro bono projects that relate to environmental issues. Additionally, he has an interest in medical malpractice, having been a lawyer for plaintiffs in several cases. In 2001, he joined the Wetland research project instituted by the JFBA and is very interested in conserving the wetlands. At NYU, he planned to research environmental and land use regulation, and also investigated the actual conditions of "ecosystem management" in the U.S.

Ms. Janneke Elisabeth Nijman is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Law and Justice in the History and Theory of International Law Program and a PhD candidate at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Her research currently focuses on questions of corporate responsibility addressed from a legal-historical angle. This research builds to some extent on her dissertation which deals with the concept of international legal personality. She is the author of "Sovereignty and Personality: a process of inclusion," in G. Kreijen (et al.), State, Sovereignty, and International Governance (OUP, 2002). After studies in law at Leiden University, she was a research fellow at the T.M.C. Asser Institute (The Hague) in the Asser Dissertation Program.

Mr. Xavier Oberson is Professor of Swiss and International Tax Law at the University of Geneva. He received his PhD from the University of Geneva and completed the International Tax Program at Harvard Law School where he also obtained an LLM

His main research interests are Swiss and international fiscal law, as well as administrative litigations. He published several books and articles in these subjects. Worth mentioning are the books Droit fiscal suisse (Bâle 1998, Helbing & Lichtenhahn) and Switzerland in international tax law , Amsterdam 2nd edition (IBFD) 2001 (co-author Howard R. Hull).

Professor Oberson is partner in a Geneva-based law firm specifying in tax matters and member of various commissions of experts, associations or foundations in fiscal law as for example the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association (IFA).

Mr. Jun Oshino graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1994. While working as an Ishikawa Prefectural official, he passed the Bar Exam and then was admitted to Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan as a legal intern.

After completing the training program, he was appointed by the Cabinet of Japan to be an assistant judge in 2000. He heard civil trial cases as an assistant judge in a panel at Tokyo District Court. The cases which he was hearing included mass litigation, medical malpractice, defamation. Recently, he was also handling prejudgment remedy cases including issues such as privacy or nuisance. His main interest is comparative analysis of civil procedure, such as planned proceeding in trials, and measures to cope with the cases which require professional knowledge.

Jacqueline Peel is a lecturer-in-law at the University of Melbourne, Australia where she teaches in the graduate and undergraduate environmental law program. Jackie earned an LL.M. degree from NYU School of Law as an Australian Fulbright Scholar. Her graduate studies focused on international environmental law and its linkages with other areas of international law, including trade law and human rights.

In 1996, she completed a joint Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Laws program at the Universtiy of Queensland, Australia, graduating with First Class Honors and a University Medal in law. Following her time at New York University, Jackie received a scholarship to undertake an internship at the United Nations International Law Commission in Geneva, where she assisted the Special Rapporteur on State Responsibility, Professor James Crawford, in drafting commentaries for the Commission's Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts. Jackie has also worked as a solicitor in the planning and environmental division of the Australian legal firm of Allen, Allen and Hemsley Solicitors.

Gideon Rosen Global Research Fellow United States of America

Gideon Rosen is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He is the author of A Subject with No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic Reconstrual in Mathematics (Oxford 1997) and numerous articles in metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of mathematics. His year at NYU School of Law is supported by a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation. His project for the year is a philosophical study of moral and legal responsibility.

Rabbi Dr. Gidon Rothstein Gruss Scholar in Residence United States of America

Rabbi Dr. Gidon Rothstein has served as a congregational rabbi and an educator while completing a PhD in Post-Biblical Jewish History and Literature. His main area of interest is the intersection of text and practice, both in terms of reading texts to find new insight into practice and ideals of the religion as well as studying how Jews have read and continue to derive practical guidance on building a spiritual relationship with God from their readings of earlier texts. He has published, on-line, a series of e-mail classes on the Book of Samuel, the third section of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed, as well as several other seminal texts in Jewish law and thought. In print, he has articles forthcoming arguing that Jews have for hundreds of years misunderstood what medieval texts meant by sunset, by reincarnation, and by the prohibition against coercing divorce. On the academic side, he combines an interest in hermeneutics with one in Jewish thought. His dissertation, "Writing Midrash Avot," showed that fifteenth century interpreters of Ethics of the Fathers--a third century Rabbinic text--began to treat it as they would a Biblical text, reading into it the multiplicity and fluidity of meaning heretofore reserved for the Divine Word. His current research on the Noahide laws seeks to show that this corpus teaches about the Jewish worldview as a whole, while also offering insight into how societies can and should manage the differences between citizens, foreigners, and lawful permanent residents.

Jeffrey Segal is professor of political science at Stony Brook University. His articles include "Predicting Supreme Court Cases Probabilistically: The Search and Seizure Cases, 1962-1981" ( American Political Science Review , 1984), which won the Wadsworth Award (2002), for book or article, ten years or older, that has had a lasting influence on the field of law and courts. His books include Majority Rule or Minority Will: Adherence to Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court (Cambridge University Press, 1999, with Harold Spaeth), which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award of the American Political Science Association for best book in law and judicial politics. His most recent book, again with Spaeth, is The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Dr. Jingxia Shi earned her LLB in 1992 from Wuhan University and then continued her graduate education at the same institution. She received a PhD in law in June 1998. Thereafter, she served as a lecturer in the Law School, China University of International Business & Economics (UIBE). In July 2001, she was promoted to associate professor. In December 2002, she took up a full professorship at the Law School of UIBE. She is also a research fellow at the China National Institute of WTO Studies.

During 2000, she was in residence at the Center for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary College, University of London as a visiting scholar. She has been one of members in the Drafting Committee of the Enterprise Bankruptcy and Reorganization Law of the PRC (organized by Fiscal and Economic Committee of NPC) since 2000. She also practices law at Beijing Zhongyin Law Firm as a part-time lawyer.

Dr. Shi has taught in the fields of WTO law, transnational corporation law and private international law. Her research interests focus on various aspects of international trade in services, cross-border insolvency, and international investment. Dr. Shi also takes charges in several national research projects on cross-border insolvency and international trade in services, which are subsidized by the State Fund. Dr. Shi has published numerous articles in the INSOL International Insolvency Review, Social Sciences in China, China Legal Science, CASS Studies in Law and other professional journals in China and abroad. She was awarded the "National Prize for 100 Excellent PhD Dissertations" (the only such prize in the legal subject) jointly by The Ministry of Education and The Degree Committee of State Council of China for her PhD dissertation entitled "Legal Issues in Cross-border Insolvency" in 2000. 

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1965. After graduation from law school at the Sofia University, Professor Soloveytchik completed his legal traineeship and worked as a legal adviser in commercial law and banking. In 1992-93, he spent a year at the George Washington University, Washington D.C. completing an LLM in international and comparative law. Upon his return to Sofia he was admitted to the Bulgarian Bar and practiced for a year.

Since the end of 1994 Professor Soloveytchik has been living and working in Strasbourg, France. He started initially at the former European Commission of Human Rights and, after 1998, continued at the European Court of Human Rights. In 1997-98, he attended an advanced studies program (D.E.A.) in public international law at the Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg.Since 1996 he has travelled to many countries in Central and Eastern Europe where he gave talks and conducted training sessions on the European Convention of Human Rights. In the last several years, Professor Soloveytchik has given seminars for students at the summer school of the International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg. He speaks English, French, Russian and Bulgarian.

Gila Stopler graduated  magna cum laude  from Tel Aviv University in 1994. In 1995, she joined the Israeli Bar and began working as substitute legal counsel at the National Counsel for the Defense of the Child. She then became a staff lawyer for the Israeli Union for Environmental Defense, doing primarily environmental litigation. During this time, Gila was accepted to the New Israel Fund Fellowship for Human Rights Lawyers and, in 1997, completed an LL.M. degree in International Legal Studies at the American University in Washington, DC. She then returned to Israel to work for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), one of Israel's premiere public interest organizations. At ACRI, Gila litigated several cases before the Israeli Supreme Court and wrote a position paper on behalf of a coalition of NGO's advocating for the establishment of an Equal Employment Opportunities Commission in Israel, that was distributed to Israeli Parliament members.

In the academic year 2000-2001 Gila was a Global Public Service Scholar at NYU School of Law pursuing an LL.M. degree in Public Service Law. She graduated first in her class and received the David H. Moses Memorial Prize to the member of the LL.M. class with the highest cumulative average. In the fall 2001 semester Gila began her J.S.D. degree at the NYU School of Law. The topic of her dissertation is the conflict between women's rights and culture and religion in a liberal state. She has recently published an article in the  Columbia Journal of Gender and the Law entitled "Countenancing the Oppression of Women: How Liberals Tolerate Religious and Cultural Practices that Discriminate Against Women."  

Hang Wu Tang is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. Mr. Tang is currently in residence at Magdalene College, Cambridge as a PhD candidate where he is writing a dissertation on unjust enrichment focusing on mistaken transfers of wealth under the supervision of Mr. Graham Virgo of Downing College, Cambridge. While at NYU, he researched the following areas: the American modern legal history of the law of restitution; the boundary between contract law and restitution; and the issue of restitution for mistaken gifts. Mr. Tang graduated on the Dean's List from the National University of Singapore in 1995 and obtained his LLM from Cambridge University in 1999 where he was the top student of his class. Prior to joining NUS, he was in practice as a commercial litigator in Singapore. He also did several work attachments with numerous leading law firms and barristers' chambers in London. 

Neus Torbisco Casals is Associate Professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, where she teaches legal and political philosophy. She completed her first law degree at the University of Barcelona in 1993 and a doctorate in law at the University of Pompeu Fabra in 2000. Neus has held several visiting positions at Ottawa University and Queen's University, Canada, and at the Centro di Ricerca e Formazione sul Diritto Costituzionale Comparato, Università Degli Studi di Siena, Italy. She has also been  stagiaire  at the European Court of Human Rights. She has published several articles and chapters, and has presented papers at conferences in Europe and South America. More recently, she has conducted research on cultural rights, immigrants integration and European citizenship for some private and public Catalan institutions like the Jaume Bofill Foundation. At NYU, she will be pursuing research on cultural diversity and models of political inclusion in supranational democracies.  

Dr. Xiumei Wang is Associate Professor of Renmin University of China. After she obtained her first degree of law in 1988, she went to the court and was promoted to the position of judge in 1995. Later, she discovered that it would be beneficial for her to do further study of law and for this purpose went to Renmin University Law School receiving her LLM and PhD separately in 1997 and 2000.Presently, she is very interesting in the field of criminal law, environmental criminal law and international criminal law especially the international criminal court. Recent publications include: Criminalizing and Sentencing on Environmental Crime (Supreme People's Court Press, 1999); and Study on International Criminal Court (Renmin University Press, 2002). Additionally, she has translated Manual for Ratification and Implementation of Rome Statute of International Criminal Court (Zhongxin Press, 2002); and Resources and Concept of International Criminal Law (Law Press, 2003) 

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Dr. Yasar Abu Ghosh is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Charles University, where he was the head of the department from 2009-2012. He has taught as a visiting professor at Central European University in Budapest, Ludwig Maximilians Universitat in Munich, Germany, and at Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France.

Dr. Abu Ghosh has done extensive field research on the Roma in Southern Bohemia, focusing on the quest for recognition, survival strategies, inter-group dynamics and how governmental policies have affected this minority group. He has participated in numerous conferences and currently is finishing a monograph on the subject.

Yasar Abu Ghosh earned a PhD in ethnology/social anthropology from Charles University in 2008. He studied social anthropology at the Laboratoire de Sciences Sociales ENS/EHESS in Paris. He participated in study programs at the University College London, Central European University (Budapest), and was a visiting post-graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at New York University in 1998.

Dr. Abu Ghosh was the co-founder of the Czech Association for Social Anthropology, and had been a member of the board of experts to the Government Council for Roma Community Affairs as well as an independent expert to the European Commission program “Peer Review and Assessment in Social Inclusion”. He is a member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.

Past courses taught: Roma in Central East Europe: Ethnographic and historical overview of a people without a state

Tony Ackerman attended Harvard University, studied classical guitar in Italy for many years, and received a Ph.D. in Music Theory and Composition from the University of California at Santa Barbara. His performing career as a guitarist has spanned over 40 years and many musical styles, including jazz, modern avant-garde art music, and American roots styles. After receiving an IREX grant to study Czech contemporary music in 1983, Ackerman remained in Prague, creating an original acoustic duo with the Czech jazz pianist Martin Kratochvil, combining the sounds of his 7-string guitar with Kratochvil’s adventurous explorations on the grand piano. The duo, which has expanded to include multi-ethnic percussionist Imram Musa Zangi, has recorded nine albums and performed thousands of concerts in the Czech Republic and abroad.

Ackerman has taught music theory and history at UC Santa Barbara, and was music teacher and chair of the Fine Arts Department at the International School of Prague from 1985-2012. During this time he also taught Aural Comprehension at the NYU Prague campus (2006), and gives frequent lectures to visiting American university groups about Czech music, focusing on the underground music scene during the Communist 1980s.

Past courses taught:  Music Facultry Coordinator, Aural Comprehension, Collegium  

Josef Ager has been a lecturer in German at the University of Economics in Prague since 1991 and has taught German at NYU Prague since the Fall of 1998. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Vienna.

Past courses taught: Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced German language

Muriel Anton is an economist and businesswoman who was the CEO of Vodafone Czech Republic from 2008 to 2014.  She oversaw the company as it became the fastest growing mobile operator on the Czech market, when it also received awards in 2010  and 2011 as the most socially responsible company on the market.  She was voted the most influential Czech businesswoman for three consecutive years (2009-2011).  She is currently the chairwoman of GM Odyssey- Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia  which launches mentoring programs for women in business.  

Muriel Anton earned an MA in Economics at the University of Alberta in Canada.  From 1988-1991 she taught macroeconomics at the University of Alberta.

Past courses taught: Introduction to Marketing

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Currently the Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security at the Foreign Ministry in Prague, Václav Bartuška was also the Czech Commissioner General at EXPO 2000 in Hannover, Germany. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (1994-95) and a Marshall Fellow in 1999.

Bartuška graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in 1992. As a student there, he was among those who started the strike in November 1989; the result of which--to the suprise of everyone--was the peaceful overthrow of Communism (the so-called Velvet revolution). Because of his previous experience with the Secret Police, Bartuška was elected as the students’ representative to the parliamentary committee which oversaw the investigation of the Communist Party security apparatus. He then published his first book,  Polojasno , which sold 230,000 copies and made him independent enough to spend most of the 1990’s travelling, writing three more books and basically avoiding any serious work. 

Past courses taught: - European Security After the Cold War

Miriam Bayle – singer, pianist, composer, arranger, producer – is one of the most respected jazz singers in the Czech and Slovak Republics.  Thanks to her vocal improvisation and her rough, dark voice, critics have dubbed her “The Queen of Scat.”

She studied music at the University of Presov, and in 2001 she moved to Prague to launch her career as a singer, band leader and arranger. She has collaborated with many outstanding musicians and performed at concerts and festivals all over Europe. Miriam has released three solo albums; the latest one, What?,  is based on her original music and lyrics and goes beyond the genre of jazz to pop and dance music with electrosound. She also composes theatre music.

She has taught at the Jezek Conservatory and Prague Conservatory and currently teaches scat at workshops (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland) and gives private lessons.

www.miriambayle.com

Veronika Bednarova is a senior reporter and editor for the contemporary Czech cultural and international affairs magazine Reflex .

She spent two years (2012-2014) as the managing editor of the Czech monthly Esprit and two years (2010-2012) as the senior reporter of the weekly magazine Pátek (Friday), both published by Lidové noviny, the most influential Czech daily newspaper known for its high-quality editorial supplements.

Prior to joining Lidove noviny, she worked for 9 years as an international reporter for Reflex magazíne.

Bednarova specializes in cultural and foreign affairs. She has been reporting regularly from the U.S, the U.K and South Africa. She wrote a book feature on Silicon Valley, covered the situation in the Iraqi city of Basra, and wrote a travel column Somewhere in Africa while living in South Africa. She was awarded the 1st Ringier 2002 Award for the Best Cover Story of the Year (covering the 9/11 events in New York), and the 1st Ringier 2005 and 2009 Awards for covering the AIDS epidemic in South Africa.

After receiving her Master‘s Degree from Charles University, Bednarova spent two years (1999-2001) at New York University in New York as a Fulbright Scholar, earning a Master’s degree in Arts Management. While there, she worked for the Lincoln Center of the Performing Arts.

Since 2002, she works as editor-in-chief of the Czech-English Festival Dailies at the annual International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary. During her career, Bednarova has interviewed many internationally known personalities (the former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, actors Robert De Niro, Danny DeVito, Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman, Harvey Keitel, Antonio Banderas, John Travolta, Mel Gibson, the film directors Milos Forman, Woody Allen and many others).

She has been teaching at NYU Prague since January 2006. In 2006, she also published a book of her successful travel stories, My American Beauty.

Past courses taught: Travel Writing

Karolina Bubleová Berková graduated from the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of René Tuček. On the basis of a scholarship awarded by the Italian Cultural Institute Berková she completed singing studies in the first half of 2001 at the Conservatorio di Giuseppe Verdi in Milan in Italy (Prof. Stelia Doz, Prof. Sonia Turchetta).In 1997, Berková won the International Singing Competition of Ema Destinn and in 2001 the was the laureate of the International Singing Competition of Antonín Dvořák in Karlovy Vary.

Among her most significant successes are: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro – tour with the National Theatre in Japan; Leoš Janáček: The Diary of a Vanished Man – Paris, France; in May 2004, she represented the Czech Republic at the Berlin gala concert of singers from the ten countries entering the European Union accompanied by the Berliner Symphoniker orchestra conducted by Lior Shambadal; in September 2004, she appeared with the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimír Válek in Mahler's 4th Symphony and in November 2004, she gave concerts of religious music in Israel. In 2005, she interpreted the mezzosoprano part in the oratorium Ecce Homo by Jan Hanuš during the Prague Spring Festival. Since 2010, she has become a guest soloist for educational recital programs held by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra production in Rudolfinum. A solo recital together with harpist Laura Caramellino in Milano, Italy, has crowned their co-operation in May 2011.

Past courses taught: Opera, Musical Theatre, Classical

Dr. Blahova specializes in the relationships between the American and Eastern Europe film industry as well as Czechoslovak film during the Communism era.  In addition to teaching at NYUP, she is an Assistant Professor in the Film Studies Department of Charles University in Prague. She earned a Ph.D. in film history from the University of East Anglia (UK) and Charles University. She is currently editor-in-chief of Cinepur, a Czech film culture magazine, and a film critic for the national weekly Respekt.

She served as a guest editor of the prominent Czech academic journal Iluminace: The Journal of Film Theory, History, and Aesthetics (issues on Post-feminism, Banned Films in Eastern European Cinemas, and Film Festivals).  Her articles on the relationships between distribution, reception, and politics have been published in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Film History, and Post Script. She is currently working on an anthology entitled "Cinematic Lowbrow and Eastern Europe."

Klára Boudalová is a teaching and performing artist, scriptwriter and concert presenter. For the past 12 years, she has worked for The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra as a creative author of education and outreach programs, working mostly with school groups and families (chamber and orchestral concerts, workshop series etc.), young aspiring artists (masterclasses and discussions) and music teachers (leading a professional development project Music for Schools). As an educator, she has been designing outreach programs for the Symphonic Orchestra of Czech Radio, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Janácek Philharmonic Ostrava, South Bohemian Symphonic Orchestra, State Theatre and Opera of South Bohemia and many student orchestras. She also leads an international radio competition for young artists called Concertino Praga.

Klára has also written a series of 12 audiobooks entitled "Don't be Afraid of the Classics" which became a best-selling, award-winning nationwide classroom music teaching tool. As a performer, she is an early music soprano and a lover of swing and Irish folk music. At NYU Prague Klára helps students find their passion for and style within the field of music education.

In recent years, Tomas Bouska has been engaged in recording the oral histories of political prisoners who were imprisoned in forced labour camps in the 1950s as well as survivors of genocides around the world. He is the founder and chairperson of the nonprofit organisation Political Prisoners.eu, co-author of the book “Czechoslovak Political Prisoners. Oral Histories of Victims of Communism” and director of a documentary film called “K.Ch.” about a female political prisoner. From 2008-2010 he served as spokesman of the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. He later worked as the deputy director of the College of Media and Journalism in Prague and as the strategy and development manager at the Aspen Institute of Prague. He currently runs the democracy project for the organization Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and created an Airbnb Experience that takes people on tours to better understand the experiences of political prisoners.

Tomas Bouska has a Ph.D. from the Charles University department of political science.

Kateřina Čapková is research fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences. She also teaches courses at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

Capkova studied History and German Studies at Charles University in Prague and at the University of Vienna and in Münster (Germany). In 1998/1999, she was a visiting student at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and she spent a semester at INALCO (Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilization) in Paris in 2000. Further research stays abroad include the University in Basel (2005) and Free University in Berlin (2010/2011).

She is the author of Czechs, Germans, Jews? National Identity and the Jews of Bohemia (Berghahn Books 2012, pb 2014), which was awarded the Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2012. Her second book, Unsichere Zuflucht ( co-authored with Michal Frankl) focuses on Czechoslovak refugee politics in the interwar period and the situation of German and Austrian refugees in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s (published in Czech and in German).

Capkova is currently working on a comparative study about Jewish settlements in the Czechoslovak and Polish border regions after the Second World War.

Past courses taught: Modern Jewish History

Rob Cameron is the BBC's correspondent in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, covering politics, human interest stories, arts and other issues for BBC Radio, BBC TV and BBC Online. Rob moved to Prague in 1993. He began his radio career in 1999, when he joined Radio Prague, the international service of Czech Radio, to which he remains a regular contributor. Cameron began reporting for the BBC in 2001, and became the BBC's Czech and Slovak correspondent in 2004. He has also reported for the BBC from Albania, Poland, Russia and the United States. He is currently working on a book based on a three-week journey across the Czech Republic by slow train. 

Past course taught: Radio News; currently the advisor of our PragueCast podcast internship

Senta is an award-winning business professional with twenty years of international experience in Innovations, Sales, Marketing, and Mergers & Acquisitions. Currently, she holds the role of Chief Innovation Officer at Deloitte Czech Republic and Slovakia. She built the Czech Deloitte innovations team from scratch, focusing on the Czech startup ecosystem, technological innovations, and founding the building blocks of the social innovations through SheXO, KidsXO, 3XO Clubs and other open innovations strategies. Four years later, she founded the Deloitte Central Europe Innovations program and pioneered the field of technological innovations in Deloitte Central Europe. She previously held the role of Worldwide Customer Programs Director at Hewlett Packard where she has been instrumental in transforming HP's customer programs and blue-printing the GBS-centric model, Worldwide Director of Press and Analyst Relations at Hewlett Packard, and Regional Marketing and Strategy Director in the territory from Russia to Africa at Hewlett Packard.

Senta is a graduate of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague and holds a Master of Science in Biocybernetics. In 2011, Senta won the Czech Business Person of the Year award, becoming the first female ever to win this coveted prize in the competition's 20-year history. In 2016, she won the Advocate Marketing Academy Award in Advocate Recruitment, and her team has won the Deloitte CE Impact Award twice: ‘Keeping pace with the start-up world’ in 2018 & ‘Building up a new culture of social responsibility entangled with business innovation’ in 2019. She also teaches Critical Thinking in Business Futurology; & Machine Learning at the CEMS Master Program in International Management at VŠE, Prague University of Economics and Business.

Senta is a pro-bono mentor, an expert in leadership/leadership literature, a regular contributor to various media, a conference speaker, and an ardent writer of blogs on fiction. She holds positions on the boards of directors of two NGOs and the ESG startup Flowbox.

Zdenek Divoky studied the French horn at the Janáček Academy of Arts (Brno, Czech Republic).

His professional career began in 1973 when he became a member of the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra; during this time, he won numerous prizes in European competitions (Munich, Prague, Markneukirchen). From 1979 to 2018 he was a member of the world renowned Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also played in several chambre ensembles (the Prague Horn Trio, the Czech Wind Harmony and the Czech Philharmonic Octet). He recorded four horn concertos by Antonio Rosetti for the Hänssler Edition CD.

Zdenek Divoky has taught at the Prague Conservatory since 1999, and for 27 years has been organizing HORNCLASS, an international master class.

His specialitiy is playing on the historic natural horn, the predecessor to the modern French horn.

Jakub Dolezal is a musician, composer and teacher who has been based in Prague since 1999. Besides leading his own group - the Jakub Dolezal Quartet - he's been a sideman for some of Prague's legendary musicians, including Michal Ambroz, Vladimir Misik, and Ondrej Pivec. He teaches jazz history and leads ensembles at the Jaroslav Jezek Conservatory and works for Czech Radio creating and presenting two regular jazz programs. As a teacher, he advises students in areas such as improvisation, arrangements, and life as a professional musician.

Since 1989, Ivana Doležalová has worked as a researcher, interpreter and co-correspondent for the Central European Office of National Public Radio and The New York Times in Prague plus for various other foreign media (BBC, Danish TV, ABC, PBS). She has also worked as a translator and moderator for Center of Independent Journalism in Prague, Czech Republic, and has translated the works of Fay Weldon, Woody Allen, Susan Sontag, Erica Jong, and Sue Grafton.

A Fulbright scholar and later visiting professor teaching media, film and literature at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois and University of Washington, Seattle, US (1994-97, 1999, and 2001), Dolezalova was also invited to give talks on film, history and feminism at University of Washington, Stanford and Harvard.

Presently, she is lecturing on Czech and European Film, Collegium Hieronymi Pragensis and Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Dolezalova also writes articles, reviews and interviews for various magazines and newspapers (Respekt weekly and The Presence quarterly). She is a Juror of the International Committee of Women of Europe Award, Brussels, Belgium and President of the Czech Committee of Women of Europe Award.       

Past courses taught: Central European Film

Jeremy Druker is the executive director of Transitions (TOL), one of Central and Eastern Europe's leading media development organizations, and editor in chief of TOL's flagship publication, Transitions Online. He is also founder/CEO of Press Start, the first global crowdfunding platform designed specifically to support journalists in countries where the press cannot report freely. Jeremy is chairman of the board of the Fulbright Commission in the Czech Republic and a member of the supervisory board of the Czech Journalism Prizes, the "Czech Pulitzers." Jeremy has been an Ashoka Fellow since 2010. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and a master’s in international affairs from Columbia University.

Past courses taught: Social Media Networking

Marta Fadljevicova, a musician in her heart and soul, has had an uninterrupted performing career as a singer and performer for over two decades.

She has played the piano and sung since she attended music school as a child. Upon graduation from the Prague Conservatory, she started working intensively with a wide range of ensembles specialized in early music.

Marta is currently a member of some of Prague's most successful ensembles, including Tiburtina, Collegium 1704, Musica Florea, Ensemble Inegal and Collegium Marianum. She frequently participates in concerts and opera performances at European music festivals.

She has cooperated with world famous conductors such as James Parrot, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Václav Luks, Hans Christoph Rademann, Barbora Kabátková and Jana Semerádová and directors Sigrid T'Hooft, Lorenzo Charoy and David Radok.

Throughout her 25 year performance career Marta has always found time to teach students as a vocal tutor. Her main goal is to help the students find and extend the range of their own voices and bodies, discovering connections to the music, emotions and lyrics.

Kristina Fialova has been praised by the critics for her impeccable technique, impassioned performance and sophisticated musical sentiment. After winning the 2013 Michal Spisak International Competition in Katowice, Poland, she was invited to the major concert stages. Her appearance at the prestigious Tivoli Festival in Denmark was followed by her debuts in the Tonhalle Zürich, Cologne Philharmonic, Sumida Triphony Hall (Tokyo), Gran Teatro Nacional (Lima), and the Prague Spring festival.

She has regularly performed with renowned Czech and foreign orchestras (Copenhagen Philharmonic, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Prague Philharmonia, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, etc). As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with a number of superb soloists and ensembles.  Kristina Fialová has performed at concert halls across Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas, and at major festivals. She is the winner of numerous international competitions.

Kristina Fialová studied at the Brno Conservatory, the Hochschüle für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden, the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She further honed her skills at master classes led by leading soloists and pedagogues around the world.

Kristina Fialová records regularly for Czech and Danish radio, Czech Television, TV Noe and has recorded eight CDs.  She has given master classes in New York, Dellaware, Lima, Copenhagen, Qingdao and Guangzhou.

Kristina plays a Carlo Antonio Testore – Contrada 1745 viola. She is a Pirastro artist and she exclusively uses Pirastro strings.

Alice Fiedlerová studied piano at the Academy of the Performing Arts in Prague with Professor Boris Krajný. During her career as a pianist, she has performed in Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium and the USA and collaborated with many outstanding soloists and has recorded for Czech Radio and the Czech Television. In 2012, she had her American debut as a soloist at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

Since 2011 Alice has performed in a Czech-American piano duo with American pianist Joan DeVee Dixon. Specializing in Czech and American compositions, they have performed throughout the Czech Republic and the USA as featured artists at the American Spring Festival and the International Dvorak Society in Prague.

Over the past 20 years Alice has taught at the Prague Music High School and at the Prague Conservatory. She has extensive experience teaching students of various levels. In addition to developing piano and musical skills, she aims to introduce her students to the Czech repertoire. Part of her lessons are typically devoted to sight-reading, and she frequently utilizes four-handed piano music.

Markéta Foukalová is a singer, songwriter and teacher who started fronting a band at the age of 13; she is now well known as a the lead singer of the indie-pop band LANUGO which she founded in 2006. 

Markéta also established and leads Beznot , a very popular Prague children's choir.  

She holds a Master's degree from the Charles University Pedagogical Faculty and studied jazz singing at the Jaroslav Ježek College.  She teaches at the Jan Deyl Conservatory in Prague as well as at NYU Prague.

American pianist Patricia Goodson is active as a solo recitalist and chamber musician throughout Europe and North America. Her playing, praised by critics as 'powerful and seductive' and 'breathtakingly virtuosic' has been featured on radio (NPR, BBC, Czech Radio and others) and television (US, Poland, Ukraine, Czech Republic). Her solo CD of contemporary American music, 'Strange Attractors', for Albany Records, received uniformly enthusiastic and positive reviews. She records also for Czech Radio and Czech Television, and in spring 2010 began to record a three CD series of the complete solo piano works of Czech composer Josef Bohuslav Foerster.

Ms. Goodson has lived full-time in Prague since 1991, and her broad repertoire encompasses music by Czech composers of all periods such as Fibich, Suk, Tomášek, Janácek, Foerster, Fišer, Kapr, Loudová, Matoušek and Dvorák, in addition to masterworks by Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and others. She works actively with contemporary composers, and has had many pieces written especially for her.

Ms. Goodson has performed with leading Czech artists such as cellists Petr Nouzovský and Jirí Bárta and pianist Milan Langer. Upcoming projects include a tour of Europe with Mr. Nouzovský, showcasing music by composer Geraldine Mucha, and recordings of music by Mrs. Mucha, Debussy, Fauré, Arnold Bax and others.

In addition to performing, Ms. Goodson wrote and co-hosted 'Encore', a radio show about Czech music for Radio Prague, the English-language service of Czech Radio. She has also collaborated on radio shows for the BBC. She has written extensively about music and musical life for the English-language weekly the Prague Post, for Strings magazine and other publications.

Ms. Goodson received her education at Duke University (BA, with honors) and at the Peabody Conservatory (MM). She currently serves on the piano faculty of New York University in Prague.

Past courses taught: Piano

Daniel Havel studied from 2000-2006 at the Conservatory of Music in Brno, and from 2006-2011 earned an MFA at the Music and Dance Faculty at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

Since 2007, he has been a member of the orchestra of the National Theatre in Prague, where he is currently first flute.  He also is a member of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra as first flute alternate.   He also performs modern and new music with the  Ostravská Banda. 

Previously he performed with the Moravian Chamber Orchestra, the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra in Olomouc, the Czech Chamber Soloists and the Prague Philharmonia.

He has participated in numerous master classes: at Janácek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno with Václav Kunt, in Paris with Philippe Bernold (2005), in Prague with Carlo Jans (2006), with Peter Lukas Graf in Switzerland  (2007), Philippe Bernold (2008).

In 2004 he created a CD recording for Czech radio in Brno:J. Ibert - Piéce pour flute seule, O. Mácha - Variations for Flute and Piano.

Past courses taught:  Flute, Chamber Ensembles

photo by Heidi Hornáčková

Matouš Hejl came into the public eye in 2015 when, at age 26, he was nominated for the Czech Lion award (the Czech equivalent of an Oscar award) for best music in his debut film Lost in Munich.

Hejl is widely regarded as one of the best young Czech composers. In 2019, the Czech Philharmonic commissioned and performed the world premiere of his composition Crossings.

He studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.

He has written music extensively for theatre and film, most recently for the Czech film Old Timers.

Patrik Hlavenka appeared on the Prague jazz scene for the first time with the group Simply Said, and later with the quartet Power of Jazz, where he had already introduced himself not only as a guitarist but also as a composer. In 2004, he acquired a Master's degree from the University of Massachusetts, majoring in jazz composition and arranging. During his studies he had the opportunity to cooperate with musicians such as Ernie Watts, Dave Berkman, Adam Kolker and Bob Wiener. In the Czech Republic, he works with notable artists such as Jaromír Honzák, Jiří Slavíček, Leona Prokopcová and many others. In 2000, he participated in "Guitarfestival," organised by the magazine Muzikus, and he won in the category "Jazz and Blues Guitar". In 2003, he was selected to take part in the prestigious "Betty Carter Jazz Ahead" residency for young jazz artists at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. He studied privately with Kurt Rosenwinkel and Ben Monder in New York City.

Past courses taught: Guitar. Jazz Ensembles

Pianist and composer Beata Hlavenková (born 1978), studied composition in classical music at the Janácek Conservatory in Ostrava.In 2004 she graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, with a Master’s Degree in composition, jazz composition and arranging. In 2003, during her American studies, she was selected for The Betty Carter Jazz Ahead residential program for young composers and players in the Kennedy Centre, Washington, DC. There she met Curtis Fuller, John Clayton and others.

At present, the composer has her own jazz music trio, working with leading players like drummer Martin Novák and bassist Rastislav Uhrík, as well as drummers Pavel Bady Zboril, Jirí Slavícek, Roman Vícha and bass players Tomáš Liška and Martin Lehký. In October 2005, she and the trio (R. Uhrik and R. Vicha) won the Jazz Junior prize 2005 for “Band of the Year, composition and arrangement.”

She has appeared in the “S’aight” project where she collaborated as composer with the guitarist and composer Patrik Hlavenka and, in 2004, released an album of the same title with Jaromír Honzák, Daniel Šoltis and Rostislav Fraš. It was one of the first albums to belong to the new wave of Czech original composition jazz records. She was also a founding member of the Jaromír Honzák trio "Face of the bass", together with Roman Vícha, with whom she played during 2006 and 2007. In the spring of 2010 she participated in the recording of their album, which will be released in 2011 by Animal Music.

In the summer of 2005, she was a member of the winning ensemble “S’aight and Vertigo Connection” at the prestigious International Music Festival in Montreux, Switzerland. The ensemble continued to give occasional concerts under the name “Open Sextet”.

In December 2005, at their Czech premiere, as guests, they performed with the world’s leading jazz musicians including trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and saxophonist Rich Perry. In 2008, she again played with Rich Perry at the Jazz Fest in Brno and for an international radio transmission by EBU, and in the autumn of 2009 Rich toured with The Beata‘s Trio.

In 2006 she won an anonymous composer competition organized by Czech Radio, with her composition “Jazvecík vo hmle za stlpom” (sausage dog in the fog behind a pillar) or “Monday Meeting”. Her musical activities range beyond jazz and classical music. The focus of her work in the field of pop music since 2005 has been collaboration with the enfant terrible of the local Czech scene, Lenka Dusilová, which resulted in a unique project called Eternal Seekers, and together with the band The Clarinet Factory, Beata was co-composer as well as arranger. Other major artists with which she has worked, or is working with, include Iva Bittová, for whom she is currently arranging songs for symphony orchestra.This cooperation began in 2009. She has worked on two albums with country & western singer Vera Martinová, with whom she toured in 2006. Then there is her cooperation with personalities and groups such as Yvonne Sanchez, The Vertigo Quintet, Toxique, Ondrej Ruml, Ondrej Konrád, Josef Štepánek, Katka Šarközi, Triny, Benedikta, David Doružka, Leona Prokopcová and more.

The keynote album "Joy for Joel" (2009 Animal Music), was recorded in the U.S.A where she again met Rich Perry and Ingrid Jensen, as well as the pedal steel guitarist Dave Easley and others. In the same year she went on tour with Ingrid Jensen, Jon Wikan and the leading Polish bassist, Michal Baranski. In addition to very positive reviews, she received a nomination for the music award, Andel (Angel).

She has worked as a music teacher at The Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory and Higher Specialised School, and is currently doing so at New York University in Prague. She has participated on the curriculum for the first Czech university study of jazz music in the Czech Republic, begun at the Janacek Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, in 2010. On the Czech jazz scene, she is one of the most sought-after pianists. Besides the piano, which she prefers to play and collaborates with the Petrof makers – she often plays a Fender Rhodes piano.

Past courses taught:  Piano, Jazz Ensembles

Tomáš Hobzek (born 1980) began drumming at Pilsen Conservatory; during his studies he joined the Pilsen theater orchestra, gaining experience by playing classical music and also playing with various student bands.

In 2004 he began attending Prague the College of Jaroslav Ježek (Jazz major). Tomáš soon became a part of the Prague jazz scene, joining the David Dorůžka Trio, the Ondřej Pivec Organic Quartet, Vojtěch Procházka Trio, and others.

Past courses taught: Drums

As a drummer in the David Dorůžka Trio, Tomáš took part in the International Getxo Jazz Festival in 2005. In the same year he won 'Best Band' Award with the Organic Quartet at the Philips International Jazz Festival. A year after that he was awarded the prestigious Czech Musical Academy Award (Anděl) in the category 'Jazz and Blues' with the CD "Don't Get Ideas", recorded with Ondřej Pivec Organic Quartet.

Tomáš has performed in many International Jazz festivals with the Organic Quartet, (Cheltenham, Sibiu, Kishinev, Prague Spring, Jazz Fest Brno, Peking, and in Athens, where the band was the sole representative of the Czech music). In July of 2008, the Organic Quartet performed at the Getxo Jazz Festival, Spain, where the band won the audience’s prize as the Best Band (over 17,000 visitors and jazz fans were present during the festival).

To enrich his experience, Tomáš headed to New York, where he took private lessons with the drummer Kendrick Scott and Gregory Hutchinson. There, with the hammond-organist Ondřej Pivec; Tomáš recorded a CD, "Overseason" – also in cooperation with guitarist Jake Langley and saxophonist Joel Frahm. He also met pianist Dan Tepfer, who plays on Tomas’s first solo album “Stick It Out” (2009).

In the summer 2009, with the band Points, Tomáš was awarded a first prize in the Getxo Jazz Competition (Spain), and later they also won second prize in a jazz contest in Hoeilaart (Belgium).

http://www.tomashobzek.com/

A full time teacher of Czech for foreigners, Monika Janouchová has taught Czech for twenty years.  In addition to NYU she teaches international students at Charles University and for the Caritas of the Diocese, an international center for foreigners and refugees.  She tries to teach students not just the language but also about the culture, the people.  She hopes that her classes help students understand that most people all around the world have similar dreams and problems no matter what their nationality.  She has a Master’s Degree in education from the Hradec Kralové Teaching College. 

Past courses taught: Czech language

Jan Jirák is Deputy Chair of the Centre for Media Studies at Charles University, as well as a faculty member of the Department of Media Studies, where he has taught Czech communications and mass media since 1992. An author and co-author of books and articles on the role of media and communication in contemporary society, media literacy and media education, Jirák is also the former chairman of the Czech Television Council and the former editor of KMIT Quarterly. Previously a translator of English-language movies for Czech TV Broadcasting, he still translates English language novels (e.g., Updike, Vonnegut, Frazer) and academic books on media (e.g., McQuail, Meyrowitz, Thompson). Additionally, he is co-author of the project of media education for Czech primary and secondary schools.

Jirák holds an M.A. degree from Charles University in English and Czech language and literature and has a Ph.D. from Charles University in media studies. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the development of media in post-transformational societies. In 2002, he became an associate professor, writing his professor´s thesis on the concept of media literacy. In 2008, he became a full-time professor in media studies. He holds professional affiliations with the Syndicate of Journalists of the Czech Republic, the Czech Union of Translators, and the Czech Circle for Modern Philology.

Past courses taught:Journalism and Society  

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Dr. Eduard Kelemen is a senior researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in the Czech Republic. 

He is particularly interested in how neuronal activity in neuronal networks is used to process information about the environment.  In 2015 he started working at NIMH, where he researches action potential discharge in groups of neurons using electrophysiological methods in freely behaving animals solving cognitive tasks.  He is studying neuronal ensemble dynamics underlying cognition in normal physiological conditions and changes of neuronal network behavior in diseases of brain.

During his undergraduate studies, Dr. Kelemen worked in the laboratory of neurophysiology of memory at the Czech Academy of Sciences under the supervision of Dr. Jan Bures. He received a Master’s degree in animal physiology at Charles University in Prague and his PhD from the State University of New York where (with Prof. André Fentonhe) he studied the dynamics of hippocampal neuronal activity in rats solving complex spatial problems that required "multitasking".  He did his postdoctoral work at Tuebingen University in the laboratory of Prof. Jan Born where he studied sleep effects on memory consolidation.

At NYU Prague he has taught the course Brain and Behavior.

Dr. Tomas Klvana is a senior international management consultant. He specializes in stakeholder strategies, engagement, management and business communication. He served as Spokesman and Policy Adviser for President of the Czech Republic and Special Czech Government Envoy for Communications of the Missile Defense Program, a U.S.-Czech-Polish project which brought him to work with his counterparts in the U.S. Congress, Pentagon, State Department and the White House. He was a Shorenstein Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

He has worked in various senior CSR and regulatory management functions at British American Tobacco in London, Hamburg, Prague and Brussels. As an independent consultant he advised international companies including International Association of Pharmaceutical Companies (Astra Zeneca, Pfizer or GSK), Lockheed Martin, Philip Morris International, EPS and other. Dr. Klvana founded Aspen Institute Prague and is a member of its International Advisory Board. He holds a Ph. D. from the University of Minnesota (1997) and an M. A. from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. In 2012 he received the Distinguished Leadership Award For Internationals from the University of Minnesota.

At NYU Prague he has taught stakeholder management, corporate/organizational communication, media and globalism for Stern School of Business and Steinhardt School of Communications.

He recently published two books in three years and in 2017 ran 2.000+ km.

The trumpeter Ladislav Kozderka was born in 1974 into a family of musicians in Brno. He graduated from the conservatory there and continued his studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He subsequently became principal trumpet with the Opera Orchestra of the National Theater in Prague, and since November 2008 he has also been principal trumpet with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. As a soloist he has performed with leading symphony and chamber orchestras in the Czech Republic and abroad. At present, he focuses on concert activities, improvisation, the performance of contemporary music and the creation of music and stage projects for various composers.

Past courses taught: Trumpet

Ethnomusicologist Matej Kratochvíl is one of the leading experts on Czech folk music.  He released a 5-CD edition of recordings of Czech and Slovak folk music from 1920s and 1930s and written many articles on the topic.

He teaches at Charles University and works at the Institute of Ethnology of Czech Academy of Sciences.  His main interests are historical recordings of folk music, traditional music and technology, and the current developments of musical traditions in Central Europe. Matej Kratochvile is also the co-translator of John Cage's seminal book "Silence."

Since 2004, Matěj Kratochvíl is editor-in-chief of HIS Voice magazine which concentrates on contemporary music and covers topics from contemporary composition as well as improvised music, electronic, noise or sound art.

Past courses taught: Music History IV

Tereza Krobova, who is completing her doctorate in media studies at Charles University, has done extensive research on gender in video games.  She has published numerous articles and spoken as the keynote speaker at conferences that explore this area.

In addition to teaching university courses on journalism, gender and video games at several Prague universities, Tereza Krobova works as a regional editor for the online news portal aktualne.cz - one of the largest news portals in the Czech Republic.  She develops scripts and works on programming at Czech Television and is a radio presenter on a broadcast about video games.  Working with several local NGOs, she leads media courses for homeless women, immigrants, and elementary school children.  

Past courses taught: Video Games

Bassoonist Jaroslav Kubita was the winner of Concertino Praga at age 12 and later the Prague Spring Music Competition, the Karol Kurpiňski Competition (Poland) among others. He studied at the Prague Conservatory and later at the Prague Academy of Music (HAMU). At eighteen, he was appointed as a solo bassoonist with the Smetana Theater Orchestra in Prague and later with the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic.

He has made numerous recordings, including of bassoon concertos by 18th Century Czech composers. He performs regularly at home and abroad both as a soloist and as a member of chamber ensembles (In modo camerale, Prague Baroque Ensemble and Czech Wind Harmony).

Kubita now teaches at the Janacek Academy of Music in Brno. He is frequently invited to give masterclasses and to sit on juries of international music competitions.

As a teacher, Kubita’s goal is to deepen the students' skills, acquaint them to bassoon works by Czech composers and teach them to play in an orchestra via individual studies of orchestral parts. He frequently gives his students the chance to go to concerts and rehearsals of the Czech Philharmonic.

Zdeněk Kühn is an Associate Professor at Charles University Law School, where he teaches legal theory, comparative public law and human rights, and a Justice of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic. He graduated from the Charles University Law School in 1997 and received his Ph.D. degree there in 2001. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) and Science Juridical Doctor (S.J.D.) degrees from the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor. Mr Kühn has taught at the Cornell University Law School and University of South Carolina Law School summer programs and at USF Law School, San Francisco and Nova Southeast University Law School. His English publications include “The Judiciary in Central and Eastern Europe”, describing the development of the law and judges in Central Eastern Europe (Brill 2011).

He has been awarded several prizes including the Hessel Yntema Prize, Berkeley, California, for the best article by a scholar under 40 (published in vol. 52 of the American Journal of Comp. Law). He has served as a legal expert on Czech and Slovak law before US courts, for example in 2003 for the plaintiff in the case In Re: Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A. Holocaust Insurance Litigation (United States District Court Southern District of New York), one of the most important recent class action suits in the United States. In Fall 2007, he was appointed by the Czech government to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to serve as an ad hoc justice in a highly profiled set of cases relating to rent control in the Czech Republic.

Past courses taught: - Law and Human Rights in Central Europe

Jiri Levícek is a pianist and composer originally from Brno, Czech Republic. After graduating from high school with a focus on natural sciences, he started his studies at the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts and received a bachelor’s degree in piano performance in 2006. He then moved to the United States and continued his studies at the University of North Texas where he received a master's degree focusing on piano and jazz composition. From 2006-2008 he was the pianist in the renowned One O’Clock Lab Band. In 2007 he released his jazz trio debut album “Returns” and participated in many other recording projects.

While still in the U.S., he toured with many artists around North and South America as well as to many European countries. In 2012 he premiered his piano concerto with the Brno Philharmonic.

In 2014 he moved back to Czech Republic and is now based in Prague where he teaches at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory and the Janaček Academy of Music. He is also the pianist in the Robert Balzar Trio, with whom he recorded two CDs ("Discover Who We Are" and "De Ja vu") and one DVD entitled “One Day.” He also accompanies his wife, mezzo-sopranist Chaazi Levicek, with whom he performed at the world famous Prague Spring Festival.

As a composer, he has written many pieces for orchestras, theatres and big bands.

Jurij Likin, a Czech oboist of Byelorussian origin, studied at the Byelorussian Conservatory in Minsk with legendary professor, Boris Nichkov. He later worked with famous French professor and soloist Maurice Bourgue in Paris (1992-1993) and in Prague at the Prague Mozart Academy. He has also played with Nicholas Daniel, Ives Poucel, Michael Faust, Jess Read, André Cazalet, Wolker Altmann, Hatto Beyerle. He was the solo oboe of the Byelorussian Philharmonic in Minsk, Petersburg Symphony, Minsk Chamber Orchestra. A winner of several national and international competitions (Concertino Praga 1984, Baltic republics-Byerorussia-Moldova International Competition 1986, USSR National Competition 1987), Jurij moved to Prague in 1994, first taking up the position of Solo/Principal Oboe in the Prague Philharmonic before accepting the same position in the Prague Symphony Orchestra, a post he holds to date. As a soloist and chamber music player, he is often invited to music festivals in Europe, Asia and North America. As a member of the Prague Wind Quintet, he won the prestigious annual French critics' prize, Choc 1999, of the "La Monde de la Musique", for the recording of chamber music by Leos Janacek. He is teaching oboe, oboe reed making and oboe repairing master-classes in France, Great Britain, Japan, Russia and USA regularly. Since 2009 Jurij Likin is a professor of oboe at the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Brno. Jurij Likin plays Fossati-Paris oboe model 20th Anniversary.

Past courses taught: Oboe

Zdenek Lukes is an architect and historian of architecture. He studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague, and from 1980-1990 worked in the Archive of Architecture of the National Technical Museum in Prague.

He was actively involved in the Velvet Revolution in 1989, and he was part of he was part of the Civic Forum with Vaclav Havel. After the Revolution, Lukes worked in the Office of the President of the Czech Republic helping to revitalize the Prague Castle during Vaclav Havel's presidency.

Zdenek Lukes has organized numerous exhibitions, including: Josip Plečnik, Ten Centuries of Architecture, Splátka dluhu (Debt Repayment), Architect E. Králiček, Czech Architectonical Cubism or Prague Functionalism. He is the author and co-author of about 50 essays, catalogues and books on modern architecture, and has written hundreds of expert articles in Czech newspapers (Respect, Revolver Revue, Lidové noviny, Architekt etc) He contributed to broadcasts for Czech Television for the series Ten Centuries of Architecture, as well as to Czech Public Radio and BBC. He is also in charge of columns dedicated to architecture on the webpage Neviditelný pes (Invisible Dog).

In 2014, Professor Lukes was awarded the State order Medal of Merit by the Slovenian President Borut Pahor.

Between 2000-2003, Lukes was Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University in Liberec. Since 2004, Professor Lukes has been teaching at the New York University in Prague.

Past courses taught: History of Czech Architecture

Since 1992, Andrzej Magala has worked at the Czech Academy of Sciences. He graduated from the Philosophical Faculty of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland in 1976, specializing in Polish language and the theory and history of Polish literature. He studied as a translator in Warsaw for two years before attending Adam Michiewicz University for another four semesters, this time studying sociology and Czech studies. From 1976 to 1992 he worked at the Polish Institute in Prague, teaching Polish to foreigners. He also taught at the Polish Embassy’s school in Prague, at the Polish School for children from mixed marriages, and gave individual Polish lessons to adults. In 2006 he completed his Ph.D. in comparative linguistics at Ostrava University. 

Past courses taught: Polish language

For more than a decade Petra Matějová combines in her career modern piano and fortepiano playing. Her interest is to approach each repertoir with the maximum care for the sound and interpretation aesthetics of the time when it was conceived, which includes also the choice of instrument. Lead by her strong interest for the music of late 18th and early 19th century, Petra Matějová started to be active in the field of early music after graduating from the Prague Conservatory and the Academy of Performing Arts in modern piano. She was studying the fortepiano in Paris and Amsterdam, and currently she is finishing her PhD thesis on Voříšek´s piano works and the early 19th century piano style in an international doctorate programme at the Janáček Academy in Brno, Paris IV-Sorbonne and Paris Conservatory under Barbara Maria Willi, Jean-Pierre Bartoli and Kenneth Weiss.

Petra Matějová divides her musical interest between the early repertoir on historical instruments and the 20th century repertoir on modern piano. As a chamber music player in modern repertoir she often appears together with the first flutist of the Symphonic Orchastra of Prague FOK Hana Brožová, members of the Škampa and Kocian quartets; in early music her main partners are the cellist Marek Štryncl and the ensembles Musica Florea, Ensemble Inégal, or singers Franziska Gottwald and Irena Troupová. She forms a piano duet with the polish fortepianist Katarzyna Drogosz.

Petra Matějová appeared in the main recital series of her country, including two consecutive performances at the Prague Spring festival and a solo recital on both instruments at the major piano series in the Rudolfinum in Prague. She appeared in most European countries and is regularly invited to the festivals in Central Europe. In France, she has made a recording for the Mezzo TV as well as a solo CD with works by Schubert, Beethoven and Voříšek. She records frequently for the Czech Radio and has recorded pieces by Rejcha, Mozart, Janáček, Fibich, Voříšek, Tomášek, Franck, Haydn, Mendelssohn.

Since 1995 Petra Matějová gives regular masterclasses in piano, fortepiano and chamber music. In 2007-2009 she lead the fortepiano class at the Valtice Early music Summerschool and since 2008 has taught fortepiano at the Janáček Academy in Brno. She plays classical repertoir on the copy of Anton Walter & Sohn instrument from 1805 made in 2007 by Paul McNulty in Divišov.

Past courses taught:  Piano, Chamber Ensembles

Jeff Medeiros is a visionary entrepreneur and educator with a track record of international success. As the co-founder of Keastone , a global software company with a presence spanning three continents, Jeff has forged a remarkable career at the intersection of technology, education, and entrepreneurship. Keastone, headquartered in San Francisco, operates its marketing and operations hub in Prague, while its software development hub thrives in Bangalore. 

The company's flagship product, IRIIIS, stands as a testament to Jeff's commitment to innovation. IRIIIS is a cutting-edge software platform designed for seamless collaboration and content creation. It was born out of a consulting engagement that brought together Jeff and his business partner Keith Adams with scientists across Europe, addressing their pressing need for efficient digital management and accelerated discovery processes. 

Beyond his corporate endeavors, Jeff is a respected educator. He has served as a business lecturer at prestigious institutions such as NYU Prague, the Anglo-American University, University of New York Prague, and the CEACAPA Study Abroad Program. His diverse curriculum spans entrepreneurship, public relations, eCommerce, digital and social media marketing, and cross-cultural awareness. In 2023, the Anglo-American University team under his mentorship clinched victory in the Junior Achievement Start-Up Competition for the Czech Republic. They represented the nation at the European Finals in Istanbul, where two of Jeff's students achieved recognition in the EY Young Women Leadership Award finals. Jeff's commitment to knowledge dissemination extends to executive MBA students from the United States, whom he guides in "Doing Business in Europe" seminars. These sessions equip aspiring entrepreneurs with the insights required to navigate European markets successfully. 

Jeff's mission is to empower the next generation of entrepreneurs by blending his extensive business experience with his passion for teaching. He envisions fostering a foundation of knowledge and confidence that will enable his students to thrive in their unique pursuits.

Outside of his professional endeavors,  Jeff shares his life in Prague with his life partner, their cherished daughter, and two canine companions.

Pianist and musicologist Ourania Menelaou was born in Nicosia, Cyprus. She graduated from the Prague Conservatory in the class of V. Topinka in 1996 and continued her studies at Charles University in Prague, from which she received her Master’s degree in Musicology. In 2003, Menelaou was awarded a Teaching Assistantship from the University of Iowa. There, she studied piano with Professor Uriel Tsachor and got her postgraduate degree on Piano Performance in 2006.

Menelaou has performed extensively, both as a soloist and as a pianist in chamber music recitals. She holds the diploma Laureat de l'Academie de Lausanne and has been invited to participate in music fesitvalsi n the U.S., where she has performed with internationally recognized musicians, including Peter Zazofsky, Doriot Anthony Dwyer, Terry King, Annette-Barbara Vogel and others. Ourania has given recitals in Greece, Cyprus, Germany, Norway, Iceland and the U.S. She has recorded for the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC), the Icelanding Radio, KNPR in Las Vegas and for Český Rozhlas.

As a musicologist, Menelaou has been researching and studying the piano music of the 19th and 20th century as well as the music of the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. During her studies in the U.S., she gave several lecture-recitals on Janáček's piano music and on the Czech piano music of the 20th century. Currently she is studying the work of the Greek composes Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949).

Past courses taught: Music History

Bara Mrazkova is a freelance photographer and graphic designer.  She graduated in 2005 with an MFA in the Department of Still Photography at the Film Academy of Performing arts in Prague (FAMU).  She also studied at  the Department of Fine Arts at Middlesex University in London. 

Bara Mrazkova photographs for festivals, museums and other cultural events, documenting and creating photographic art (e.g.  "Discovery Campus"  for Festival, Fresh Film Fest).  She has created photographic work for numerous publications including the Alfons Mucha catalogue, Czech Comics from the First half of the 20th Century by Helena Deising.   She also works for magazines (including BLOK, Hype) and several leading Czech fashion designers (Cockerel, Monidee).  From 2005-2009 she oversaw the photographic documentation of an extensive private collection of Propaganda art which was published in 2007 in the book Ne Boltai!

Mraxkova's photography has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions at leading Czech and European galleries.  She co-wrote Eastern Blok, a catalogue of an international photographic project that explored the differences between growing up in totalitarian and post-totalitarian countries, created under the auspices of President Vaclav Havel. 

Bara Mrazkova has taught Introduction to Photography at NYU Prague since 2005, first  as an assistant to Professor Zdenek Kirschner and then as an adjunct professor.   

Psat courses taught:Introduction to Photography

For over ten years the Czech composer Lubos Mrkvicka has taught composition and compositional techniques of 20th and 21st century music at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (HAMU). He has taught at NYU Prague since 2006.

His compositions, all of which are exclusively instrumental, range from solo pieces and small instrumental groups to large ensembles and orchestras. His music is stylistically based on the structuralist and constructivist avant-garde of the second half of the 20th century. His compositions have been performed by leading Czech ensembles specialized in contemporary music (Brno Contemporary Orchestra, Berg Orchestra, MoEns) as well as world-famous ensembles and performers (Klangforum Wien, Xasax Saxophone Quartet, Ian Pace).

He studied at the Prague Conservatoy and at the Prague Music Academy (HAMU) with Professor Milan Slavický and Professor Marek Kopelent where he received his Ph.D. in 2009. He also studied at the Royal College of Music in London with professor David Sawer.

You can hear his work on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/lubos-mrkvicka

Petr Mucha has been teaching at New York University Prague since 2007. His research focuses on religious and cultural studies, intercultural dialogue and European identity. He coordinates Forum 2000, a conference bringing world leaders together in Prague, and facilitates a global interfaith project in collaboration with Tomas Halík, the Templeton Prize laureate.

Mucha worked for many years on a team established by Václav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic.  He has taught at various universities and served as the director of a nonprofit organization ministering in the field of counseling and education.

Petr Mucha studied at Charles University (Prague), Simon Fraser University (Vancouver) and the University of Vienna. During his undergraduate studies in the late 1980s, he was one of the coordinators of a youth dissent movement and participated in the Velvet Revolution that overthrew the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia.

Past courses taught: Religion, Culture and Politics in Central Europe Cultures and Contexts - In the Heart of Central Europe

Richard Müller holds position as a Researcher at the Institute of Czech Literature, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. In 2011, he served as a Visiting Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages at Brown University, Providence, RI.

Richard Müller earned his M.A. in Czech and English Studies and his Ph.D. in Czech and Comparative Literature at Charles University. In 2005, he won a scholarship at the Department of Literature (Literaturwissenschaft) at University of Konstanz, Germany.

In 2012, he published a Dictionary of Contemporary Literary Theory: Glossary of Terms, which was nominated for the Book of the Year by Lidové noviny, a national news daily. His Texts in Circulation: An Anthology of Cultural Materialist Approaches to Literature (co-edited) is forthcoming. The areas of Richard Müller’s teaching and research interests include literary theory, modern Czech and German literature, relations between literary discourse and ideology and literary communication seen as a specific form of mediality. He is also a translator (Roald Dahl’s short stories, Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks).

In addition to his academic profession, Richard Müller is a classically trained pianist.

Past courses taught:  Kafka and His Contexts

Since 2007, Salim Murad has been teaching at New York University in Prague. His main research topics involve ethnic stereotypes in Czech advertising and media and migration.   Salim Murad also teaches in the Political Science Department of the Faculty of Education of the University of South Bohemia, where he started working in 2000. He is a course coordinator and lecturer of the university's teaching module in the European Union MA Program in Migration and Intercultural Relations.   Salim Murad has worked on projects for UNHCR Czech Republic and the Human Rights Education Centre of Charles University in Prague.

In 2010, Murad earned a PhD in Theory of Politics from the Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovak Republic). Murad graduated in 2000 from the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University in Brno with a MA degree in Political Science.

From April to June 2003, Murad was a Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. His research there dealt with the issue of asylum in the Czech Republic since the fall of Communism and access to the EU. He also studied at the Institute of Political Science at Copenhagen University in 2004.

Past courses taught:Advertising and Society, the Czech Republic in a Global Context

Miriam Nemcova studied composition and conducting at the Academy of Performing Arts (Prague) and the Internationale Bachakademie in Stuttgart.

She has conducted numerous concerts in the Czech Republic and abroad. She was the artistic director of the Praga Sinfonietta, Vox Pragae and the Czech National Choir, as well as a conductor and chorus master at the State Opera Prague.  She has worked with a number of professional ensembles (Suk Chamber Orchestra, Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Radio Choir, Prague Philharmonic Choir). Since 2001 she has been a guest conductor at the Hradec Králové Orchestra, with whom she recorded a CD featuring Smetana’s cycle of symphonic poems. She has also worked as a conductor at numerous studios, recording film music for international productions.

Since September 1995 she has taught for the conducting department of the Prague Conservatory and led their symphony orchestra. She has taught international conducting classes in Prague, Hradec Králové, and in South Korea.

Currently head of the legal department in a public hospital in Prague, Tomas Nemecek graduated with an M.A. in media and mass communications from Charles University in 1996, and in 2003 he earned a law degree from the Charles University Law Faculty. From 1993 to 1995 he worked as a reporter and columnist for the weekly Czech magazine Mlady svet. In 1995 he started writing for the weekly newspaper Respekt, where he was editor-in-chief from 2003 to 2005. Later he was the chief commentator of the Czech business daily Hospodarske noviny (2005-2009). After this, he became the editor of the opinion supplement and of law and justice supplements in the daily Czech newspaper Lidove noviny (2009-2013).

Past courses taught: Czech and Slovak Modern History in the Central European Context

Simon North received his MA in Fine Art from the University of Edinburgh. After completing post-graduate studies in painting at the Edinburgh College of Art, he worked as an independent artist, drawing teacher, and freelance lecturer and guide (at the National Galleries of Scotland). From 1988 to 1993 he taught English in France, the UK, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

He was a tutor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Art and Architecture at the Central European University from 1992-96, until the university closed in Prague. Since the mid-1990s he has been an architectural tour guide and has lectured on art and architectural history for numerous American study abroad programs in Prague (including SIT, NYU and CIEE) and the ECES program at Charles University.

From 2000 he also taught art history survey courses for ten years at the University of New York in Prague (UNYP).

Simon has taught at NYU Prague since 2006, offering courses on Czech Art & Architecture and A Cultural History of the City in Central Europe. Since 2001 he has offered guided tours of the city for NYU students.

Past courses taught: Czech Art and Architecture / Cultural History of the City  

Petr Nouzovsky ranks among the Europe’s best cellists of his generation and can be heard on many international concert stages. He is acclaimed internationally for his deeply expressive musicianship and virtuosity, as well as for the glorious sonority of his 1921 Georg Rauer cello.

Recently Nouzovsky has appeared as soloist in a number of orchestral or recital tours across Europe, the US and in Asia. In Europe he played with Krakow Philharmonic, Slovak Philharmonic, SWF Philharmonie and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Last season Nouzovsky appeared in Germany, China, Japan, New York, Tallin and Sczczecin.

Nouzovský has recorded with Dabringhaus und Grimm, CUBE, Albany, Supraphon, and Arco Diva. The CD „Vivat tango“ won the CD of the year 2014 by The Violoncello Foundation New York. His recent CD with the complete works for Cello and Orchestra by Bohuslav Martinu recorded with the Pilsener Philharmonic and Tomas Brauner as a conductor (Dabringhaus und Grimm) was awarded the Classic Prague Awards 2018, Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik 2017 and got great reviews from Frankfurter Allgemeine and Pizzicato Luxembourg. Pilsener Philharmonic has named Petr Nouzovsky as its "Soloist-in-Residence" for the 2014/2016 seasons.

Petr Nouzovsky graduated from the Prague Conservatory and received an MM degree from the Prague Academy of Music. He studied further at Dresden’s Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber and the Royal Conservatory in Madrid.

Petr Nouzovsky was one of only ten cellists, selected from hundreds of applicants worldwide, to attend the legendary Piatigorsky Seminars in Los Angeles, and even more exceptionally, he was invited to return a second time. He has attended master classes all over the world with legends such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Boris Pergamenscikov, Franz Helmerson and David Geringas.

http://czechcellist.com/EN/

Jiří Novák has been a freelance teacher of English and Czech for foreigners since 1990; he has been teaching at NYU since the fall of 2001.    

Novák graduated from Charles University in 1989 with a Masters degree in Czech and English language and literature, and a specialization in pedagogy. Besides teaching, he has translated a number of films and TV series (including 12 episodes of The Simpsons) for Czech TV. 

Cyrille Oswald started playing professionally in 1994 when living in the Caribbean. Upon returning to the Netherlands, he formed a latin ensemble and studied saxophone at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where he received his his Masters in 2001, also releasing his first album with original compositions. In 2004 he recorded another album with originals, together with the now famed Danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug. He recorded his next album with David Doruzka just after moving to Prague in 2009. He later formed the band Cirilic with guitarist Kirill Yakovlev, with whom he released two albums.

He is member of one of the top jazz ensembles in the Netherlands since its founding in 2003, the New Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra, a stellar band which plays with artists like Joshua Redman, Carla Bley and the Phronesis trio. In 2016, he was invited to play with the Arturo Sandoval quintet. He plays and records with various other projects and is currently preparing a new album with originals for Animal music. He also teaches music, choir and band at the French lyceum in Prague.

The Director of NYU Prague since 1998, Jiří Pehe was the Director of the Political Department of Czech President Václav Havel from September 1997 to May 1999. He serves as Chairman of the Program Committee of the Forum 2000 Foundation that organizes annual international conferences under Havel’s auspices.

From 1995 to 1997, Pehe was Director of Analysis and Research Department at the Open Media Research Institute in Prague. Between 1988 and 1995, he first worked as an analyst of Central European affairs and later as Director of Central European Research at the Research Institute of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich, Germany. From 1985 to 1988, Pehe was Director of East European Studies at Freedom House in New York.

Pehe studied law and philosophy at Charles University in Prague from 1974 to 1978. In 1980, he received a doctorate in law (JUDr.) from the School of Law of Charles University. He fled Czechoslovakia in 1981 and eventually settled in the U.S.A. In 1985 he graduated from the School of International Affairs at Columbia University in New York.

Pehe has written hundreds of articles and analytical studies on developments in Eastern Europe for American, Czech, and German periodicals and academic journals. He is a regular contributor to various Czech newspapers and regularly comments on political developments for Czech Television and Radio. He co-authored and edited a book titled  The Prague Spring: A Mixed Legacy , which was published by Freedom House in 1988. In 2002, his book  Vytunelovaná demokracie  was published by Academia, Prague. Pehe has also contributed essays and chapters to various other books. He teaches at Charles University and NYU Prague.

Past courses taught: The Czech Republic in a Global Context

Milada Polisenska is the Deputy to the President and Chief Academic Adviser at the Anglo-American College in Prague. She is a full professor of history and international relations with a specialization in contemporary history of Central and Eastern European and nationalism.

Professor Polisenska has written many academic publications, including her most book Czechoslovak Diplomacy and the Gulag, 1945-1953" (Central European Press, New York/Budapest 2015).  

She has worked for the Institute of International Relations (Prague) and the Institute for Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and has taught as a visiting professor at universities in the United States, Taiwan, and Thailand.

Prof. Polisenska has been awarded several major research grants, scholarships (Fulbright scholarship), and fellowships (Cold War International History Project Fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.). She was most recently awarded the Senior Fernand Braudel Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

She is a member of academic boards at several universities and a reviewer of the Czech Accreditation Office and of CEEPUS (Central European Exchange Program for University Studies). She joined AAU in 2003 and has held various administrative positions. Since 2008, she has been serving as Provost of Anglo American University.

Past courses taught:  History of Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe

Miroslav Pudlák is a Czech composer, musicologist, music teacher and researcher focusing on contemporary and 20th century music.  He studied composition and musicology in Prague, Paris and in the USA as a Fulbright scholar.  He teaches for the music departments of the Academy of Performing Arts (HAMU) and Charles University.   

In 1985 he founded Agon, a contemporary music ensemble, and led the group for six years. Since 1996 Pudlák has been a conductor and composer for MoEns, another contemporary music group.  In 2008 he founded CONTEMPULS, an annual international festival of contemporary music.  He works with Czech Radio as an editor and the prestigious Prague Spring Festival as a program advisor. Miroslav Pudlák has authored many orchestral and chamber compositions, and he composes music for theatre performances and electro-acoustic music. His music has been performed at contemporary music concerts and festivals in many countries and appeared on CDs released by the Arta Records label.

www.miroslavpudlak.cz

Michal Rataj studied musicology at Charles University in Prague and composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (with Prof. Ivan Kurz and Prof. Milan Slavický), where he earned his Ph.D. in 2005 in the field of electroacoustic music and radioart. Since 2006 he has also been an Assistant Professor, running the electroacoustic music theory and composition classes there.

Michal Rataj was awarded scholarships to study musicology and composition at the Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK in 1995, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in 1998 and Universität der Künste in Berlin, 2002. In 2007 he was awarded a Fulbright Grant to guide research in the field of electroacoustic music and real-time sound applications at CNMAT, University of California Berkeley, CA.

Michal Rataj also works as radio art producer at Czech Radio, Prague where he curates a program slot Radioatelier and website rAdioCUSTICA for contemporary radioart activities. Since 2012 he has been vice-chair of the EBU Ars Acustica producers group and teaches composition at the NYU in Prague and other art schools. He has written music for number of TV productions and movies as well as large amount of radio plays & features and theatre and dance performances.

Michal Rataj composes mainly electroacoustic and chamber or orchestral instrumental music and gives performances throughout Europe and broadcasts worldwide. Recently he has been active as real-time performer of his acousmatic music and he gives sound performances alone and with different music partners.

Past courses taught: Electroacoustic Composition  

Eric Rosenzveig (b. Montreal, Canada) is an artist, curator music producer and educator.

Currently the Department Chair of FAMU's Center of Audiovisual Studies (CAS), he teaches courses on open narrative structures, new media histories, sound for moving image and practical workshops on contemporary art making. At NYU he teaches electro-acoustic music comoposition. In addtion to his own art practice, he is Director of the Liz Gerring Dance Company in New York City.

His past art projects include a series of consumer electronics devices as artworks (FUNTV and others); playListNetWork, an online system for collaborative media making and public display that also included artwork of the same name (2001-2004); the Appearance Machine, an artificial life system that streamed continual animated media from garbage collected in his neighbourhood (1998-2002; winner of Vida 3.0 prizes for artificial life artworks and The Telefim Canada Prize at Images Festival Toronto for best film and video in Festival, exhibited at The Kitchen and The New Museum, NYC and other venues internationally).

Past courses taught: Electroacoustic Composition

Janusz Salamon, M.Phil. (Oxford University), Ph.D. (Jagiellonian University) is a Polish philosopher specializing in global political philosophy and transcultural ethics. Since 2012, he has been a full-time member of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague.

He is involved in cross-cultural scholarly research on global normative pluralism as a challenge to the peaceful  coexistence of humanity. He is the chair of the Editorial Committee of the ‘Agatheos. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion’ (Royal Library of Sweden, Stockholm), editor of the Bloomsbury Studies in Global Ethics (Bloomsbury Publishing, London), and board member of ‘The Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture’ (Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul).

His hobbies include classical music and gardening. 

Since 1995, Ilona Floriánová Šaršonová has specialized in teaching Czech for foreigners, both privately and for the Calix Language School and NYU Prague. She studied Czech language and literature at the Pedagogical faculty of Charles University. After graduating with her Masters degree, Šaršonová taught at Jesinova Elementary school for five years and spent one year instructing high school sophomores in art. 

Pavel Škrna is a classical saxophonist who performs in concert halls, on jazz podiums, and in theatres in the Czech Republic and abroad. He has been a member of the Bohemia Saxophone Quartet since 1993, touring the world, participating in top international festivals and cooperating with world renowned musicians.  He is praised for his wide repertoire as well as his brilliant, rich technique which is simultaneously balanced and intimate.

Pavel Škrna has been a member of the Karlin Musical Theatre orchestra since 2006 and performs as a guest with the Czech Philharmonic, the State Opera, and other orchestras.

He has been teaching for more than 20 years, and since 2011 he has been on the faculty of the Prague Conservatory. He has also led seminars in the Czech Repubulic and abroad, and is often a juror of international musical competitions.

Ivo Šlosarčík is a professor of European Integration Studies and the Jean Monnet Chair in EU law at Charles University in Prague.  He was a member of the government advisory bodies on the European Constitutional Treaty and the EU Council Presidency in 2009.  His area of research covers norm enforcement in the European Union, the EU's cooperation in the AFSJ and europeanization of national political, administrative and judicial structures.  At present, Ivo Slosarcik is working on a monograph on the European integration of the Czech civil service from the years 2004-2014. Slosarčík holds degrees from Charles University’s Faculty of Law and Central European University in Budapest.

Past courses taught: Central Europe, NATO and the European Union

Photo by Antonio Porcar

Libor is widely considered to be one of the best jazz musicians in Europe and the leading Czech jazz musician of his generation. Critics have praised his smooth, effortless and melodic approach, as well as his apparent love of jazz and his audience.

He has worked, toured and recorded with many international stars, including bassists Jay Anderson and George Mraz, drummers Jeff Ballard and Adam Nussbaum, organists Sam Yahel and Brian Charette, multi-instrumentalist James Morrison and the legendary saxophonist Bobby Watson.

Libor has performed concerts on four continents and in most European countries. He goes on annual tours to the USA and Australia, performing regularly in New York, Washington DC, Dublin, Denver, Sydney, Beijing, Istanbul, Toronto, Milan, Melbourne, Berlin, Paris and London. He has performed at the world’s most prestigious jazz venues (e.g. Ronnie Scott’s and Pizza Express in London, Smalls and Iridium in New York City, B flat in Berlin and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC).

Libor has released multiple albums as a leader and as a sideman. Their range streches from solo guitar to large ensembles, and they include wide variety of jazz genres including his own original music.

“The leading Czech guitarist” - LondonJazzNews, UK

“Europe's rising young jazz star.“ - All About Jazz, USA

“One of the fastest-rising talents on the Prague jazz scene.” - The Prague Post, CZ

“A warm, inventive straight-ahead guitarist with some great ideas and the chops to express them.” - Jazz Express, USA

Dinah Spritzer is the central and eastern Europe editor for the New York-based Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a news wire service founded in 1917 that reaches 1 million people through 110 newspapers, magazines and web sites. She covers security, political, religious and social issues in ten countries. Dinah is also a regular contributor to the New York Times, providing insights on the Central European cultural scene. Previously Dinah was news editor for four years at The Prague Post, Central Europe's leading English-language weekly. She upgraded the political coverage of the newspaper and as a result became a columnist for several Czech dailies. Prior to arriving in Prague, Dinah worked as the Europe editor for Travel Weekly, the largest travel business weekly in the United States, where she was also a regular contributor to the magazine Conde Nast Traveler and Fodor's Travel Guides. Dinah believes that freelancing for a variety of media outlets keeps a journalist on her toes: She has written on  topics from combating obesity to the imperialist nature of Santa Claus for the New York Times, USA Today, The San Francisco Chronicle, Womens' E-news, The Canadian Medical Association Journal, The Independent of London, The Irish Examiner, The Jerusalem Post, and even OK! Magazine and USWeekly. She also contributes regularly to Grazia and the Sunday Mirror in the United Kingdom.

Past courses taught: International Reporting, creator and mentor of Prague Wandering , NYU Prague's student webzine

Adela Stajnochrova graduated from the Prague Conservatory in the class of Dana Vlachová (1998), and then continued her studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of Prof. Petr Messiereur. She got her posgraduate degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she studied violin with Krzysztof Smietana and Baroque violin with Rachel Podger. In 1994, she was a finalist in the Beethoven International Violin Competition (CZ) and in 2002 she was a semifinalist in the Gesselschaft Competition held in Munich. She took part in many international master classes in the USA, Austria and France held by L. Kaplan, S. Ashkenazi, I. Levin, and J. Holloway. As a member of ArteMiss Piano Trio, she focuses mainly on chamber music, but she also performs as a soloist with orchestras, gives recitals, and cooperates with early music ensembles (The Sixteen, Musica Florea, Collegium Marianum, Collegium 1704). In 2012 she finished her doctorate studies at the Academy of Performing Art. 

Past courses taught:  Violin, Chamber Ensembles

Tatiana Styrkas has been teaching Russian language courses at NYU Prague since 2000. She was born in Moscow and received her M.A. first class honors degree from the Philological Faculty of Moscow State Pedagogical University. She then held the post of Russian Lector at Oxford University. Styrkas also earned her Master of Letters Degree from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at Oxford University, United Kingdom.

Past courses taught: Russian language

Vanda Thorne teaches and researches on the themes of mass mentality, social movements, and collective civil action in totalitarian and post-totalitarian regimes. Other interests include gender and politics in Central Europe, ideology and propaganda, and theories of cultural resistance. She received her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Pittsburgh. She also holds an M.A. in English and American Literature from Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, and an M.A. in Gender and Culture from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. 

Past courses taught: Gender in Transition in Post-Communist Society / Collective Identity in a Totalitarian Regime

Tomáš Trampota is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University; there, and at Vyšší odborná škola publicistiky, he has taught courses on Sociology of News ,  Media and Society ,  Media Content Analysis ,  and Analysis of Media. He earned his Ph.D. degree in media studies in 2005 and later worked as an executive producer for Czech television (from 1992 to 1996) and as editor of the specialized weekly Marketing and Media (from 2003 to 2004).

Past courses taught: Media and Cultural Analysis

Trampota regularly publishes on Czech media in the Czech press and has authored the monography Zpravodajství   (News)   and several academic studies and analysis. He frequently participates in international conferences on media and occasionally translates media literature from English to Czech (e.g., Meyrowitz).             

Jan Urban was one of the leading dissidents under the communist regime. He was a founder of the Eastern European Information Agency, the only supranational dissident network. He also worked with underground newspapers and as a reporter for Radio Free Europe and the British Broadcasting Company (BBC). In November 1989, he helped found the Civic Forum, the movement that led to the eventual overthrow of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. In 1990, Urban was elected as the Civic Forum's spokesperson and leader. He led the Civic Forum to its victory in the first free democratic elections in June 1990.

He resigned from all political positions one day after announcing the electoral defeat of Communism and returned to pursue his career in journalism. He studied post-conflict societies in Central America and won two international human rights awards from Humanitas, San Francisco, in 1991 and Centro Demos in San Salvador in 1995. Urban also served as a war correspondent in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1993 through 1996 and was the publisher of Transitions magazine from 1997 to 1999.

Jan Urban is the author of five books, two documentary films, and numerous television and radio programs.

Past courses taught: Modern Dissent in Europe

Born 1992 in Prerov, Czech Republic, Marek Urbánek is one of the prominent young voices of the Czech jazz scene. He began his jazz drumming studies with Kamil Slezák and later continued at Jaroslava Jezka Conservatory in Prague, where he immediately became a sought-after musician.

Recently, he finished his bachelor’s degree in the Jazz Interpretation Department of HAMU in Prague. Among the musicians with whom he has toured, recorded and collaborated, such names emerge: Melanie Scholtz (South Africa), Brian Charette (USA), Sharon Lewis (USA), Robby Marshall (USA), Shauli Einav (IZ), Pat Bianchi (USA), David Restivo (CAN), Frank Basile (USA),John Marshall (USA), and many others.

Marek has also been on the jury of Czech Jazz Ensemble competitions and the Jazz Do It Workshop. In 2017 Marek joined the faculty of the Karel Velebný Summer Jazz Workshop in Frýdlant.

Marek Valasek, MA, Ph.D. teaches choir direction at the Faculty of Education at the Charles University in Prague and leads three of Prague Conservatoire’s choirs. In 2004 he conducted the Czech premiere of the oratorio, Ecce Homo, by Czech composer Jan Hanuš at the Prague Spring International Music Festival. In 2009 he conducted Hanuš’s Requiem.

Between 2002 and 2006 he also worked as a choirmaster at the Prague State Opera. In 1996 he founded the Piccolo coro & Piccola orchestra.

Past courses taught: Vocal Ensembles

Gaëlle Vassogne is an assistant professor of German Studies at the Université Stendhal in Grenoble, France, where she specializes in German history, business German and Jewish history in Central and Eastern Europe. She has taught at the Universität Heidelberg, the Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques. She studied German Studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and at the Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle and Business at H.E.C. In 2004, she received her Ph.D. from the Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle. She will be publishing her book "Max Brod und Prag: Identität und Vermittlung" in 2009 (Niemeyer, Tübingen) and is currently working on a project on Prague Zionism. 

Past courses taught:  Germany and East Central Europe

Irvin Venys has been awarded prizes at numerous world-acclaimed competitions, including Prague Spring, Pacem in Terris Bayreuth, EBU New Talent, Paris, Zurich, etc. He sustains his award-winning reputation by performing at prestigious festivals including the Festival Mitte Europa, the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades, the Mozart der Europaer Mannheim, and at leading venues around the world in Japan, Germany, France, Spain, and the USA. The variety of Venys’ musical activities is extraordinary, ranging from the classical clarinet repertoire to extremely demanding modern compositions to folklore. He earned his PhD Degree from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he studied with Prof. Jiri Hlavác and Prof. Vlastimil Mares, and where he currently teaches. He also studied at the Conservatoir Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris, in the prestigious class of Michel Arrignon. He frequently records for Czech Radio and Czech Television, Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk, Arco Diva, NAXOS and Supraphon. His recordings on CDs contain music from classical clarinet repertoire as well as works inspired by folklore and jazz.

www.irvinvenys.cz  

Dana Vlachova, a sought-after professor at the Prague Conservatory, has been a member of the prestigious Czech Trio since 1992.  She studied at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts.  The violin has been part of her life since early childhood thanks to her father, the first violinist of the famous Vlach Quartet. 

She plays on an antique violin made in 1797 by the Czech master Kaspar Strnad. She has made recordings for radio, television and for Czech and foreign gramophone companies. She has played in most of the countries of Europe, and also in the USA, Japan, South Korea etc.

Critics have praised her performance for its overwhelming musicality and many-layered form of expression. She performs regulary in recitals and concerts with leading orchestras.

She leads master courses both in Czech Republic and abroad, and has sat on numerous juries of music competitions.

Lenka Vlasakova has been teaching Czech since 1999.  In addition to NYU in Prague, she also teaches diplomats at the US Embassy and employees at Citibank, NYU, as well as foreign students at the University of New York in Prague.  She studied Czech and English language at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University. 

Past courses: Czech language

Alzbeta Vlckova graduated from the Prague Conservatory in the class of J. Pálenícek (1993), and at the Musical Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of Prof. M. Petras (2002). In 1992, she was a finalist in the International Violoncello Competition Beethoven‘s Hradec. In 1994, she won the second prize in the International B. Martinů competition in Semmering (Austria). She participated in international master classes held by A. May, Z. Nelsova, St. Apolín, T. Kühne and studied with Prof. Roland Pidoux during her half-year stay at the Conservatoire Nationale Superier in Paris. She is a member of ArteMiss Trio. She often cooperates with orchestras as a soloist or chamber music player.

Past courses taught: - Cello, Chamber Ensembles

Tomas Vrba graduated from Charles University with a Ph.D. in philosophy and worked from 1974 to 1977 as a social worker.  In 1977, he was a signatory - along with Vaclav Havel - of the Charter 77 human-rights declaration. Through the 80s he worked as an editor of samizdat literature, and from November 1989 - the spring of 1990, he was a member of the Obcanske Forum (Civic Forum), a political party led by Vaclav Havel. He was editor-in-chief of the Lettre Internationale quarterly (Czech and Slovak edition) from 1990 -1995, and Vrba founded and was president of the AEJ-Association of European Journalists/Czech section in 1993. From 1997 until 2000, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the monthly magazine Přítomnost/The New Presence; from 2002 -2004.  He was also the Vice President of Association of European Journalist international and, until 2007, the Chair of the Czech News Agency (ČTK) Council.  He is currently President of the Board of Directors of the Archa Theater and the Forum 2000 Foundation. In 2011, Vrba co-organized an exhibition on Czech samizdat (Czechoslovak dissdient literature) and a symposium on its legacy in New York City.

Tomas Vrba also translates both fiction and non-fiction work from English into Czech.  He has translated the works of Yehuda Bauer (2009) and Flannery O’Connor (2010), Prague Winter by Madeleine Albright (2012), and most recently, If it’s Not Impossible (2014), the biography of Sir Nicholas Winton who rescued over 650 Czechoslovak Jewish children in a Kindertransport.

Past courses taught: Modern Central and Eastern European Literature

Jana Vychodilová graduated from the conservatory in Teplice (class of V. Vlková and P. Slavík), and in 2001 she finished her studies at the Musical Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (class of Květa Bilynská). In 1993, she won the first prize in the international piano competition of the North London Music Festival. She participated in the Piano Competition of Conservatory Students as well as in the Chopin Competition in Mariánské Lázně. She performs as a soloist with many Czech orchestras, but chamber music itself represents the most significant part of her musical activities. She is a member of ArteMiss Trio, which has received several international prizes. ArteMiss Trio performs regularly in the Czech Republic and abroad, and it has recorded several CDs.

Josef Zieleniec, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993-1997), has been a Senator since 2000 and a Member of the European Parliament since 2004.  He was also a member of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, and of the Executive Board of CERGE.

Zieleniec attended the School of Nuclear Technology in Prague, the Prague School of Economics, and earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Prior to 1989, Zieleniec worked at the Research Institute of Technology and Economics and later went on to join the Institute of Economics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.

In the early 1980s, Zieleniec founded and became the first Director of the Centre for Economic Research and Graduate Education (CERGE) at Charles University in Prague. At that time Zieleniec was appointed associate professor of economics and was a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. He is a co-founder of the Civic Democratic Party and worked as the party Deputy Chairman beginning in 1991. Following the 1992 elections, Zieleniec was appointed Minister of International Relations of the Czech Republic. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on January 1, 1993, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Independent Czech Republic. Following the 1996 elections, he served as Deputy Prime Minister as well as Minister of Foreign Affairs. 

Past courses taught:  European-American Relations in the 21st Century

Graduate School Summer Funding Competition Awards Announced

Seventy-one scholars are the recipients of dissertation and pre-dissertation fellowship awards through The Graduate School’s Summer Funding Competition . The $4,500 awards are given annually to a select group of outstanding doctoral students to support progress to degree and dissertation completion. The awards are part of an expansion of funding and benefits programs announced by the Office of the Provost last spring.   

This year’s awards provide funding for summer research and writing to students in 43 different programs.   

  Dissertation fellowships were awarded to: 

• Carlos Ramirez Arenas, religion   
• Emily Beauparlant, social psychology   
• Chelsea Bouldin, cultural foundations of education   
• John Brigham, earth sciences     
• Semaj Campbell-Blakes, history   
• Stephen Caviness, teaching and curriculum   
• Ahmet Celik, religion   
• Shreyas Aralumallige Chandregowda, civil engineering   
• Sicong Chen, computer engineering and information science    
• Joseph Colbert, biology   
• Nicholas Croce, social science   
• Amber Ford, chemistry   
• Lerie Gabriel, composition and cultural rhetoric   
• Nicole Yeannine Moller Gonzalez, geography   
• Xiaoxia Huang, political science   
• Jianqing Jia, mathematics   
• Linghua Jiang, human development and family science   
• Kelly Kearns, counseling and counselor education   
• Marie Kramer, mathematics   
• Qingyang Liu, human development and family science   
• Yang Liu, instructional design, development and evaluation    
• Michael McCall, political science   
• Catherine Montgomery, clinical psychology   
• Katherine Mott, sociology   
• Zakery Munoz, composition and cultural rhetoric   
• Brian Odiwuor, mathematics education   
• David Okanlawon, anthropology   
• Felipe Oliveira, philosophy   
• Madeline Olley, English   
• Zhijuan Niu, instructional design, development and evaluation    
• Jared Rosenberg, exercise science   
• Sarah Souders, public administration   
• Sarah Stegeman, history   
• Nimisha Thakur, anthropology   
• Sidney Turner, composition and cultural rhetoric   
• Renci Xie, Doctor of Juridical Science    
• Dong Zheng, civil engineering   

 Pre-Dissertation fellowships were awarded to:  

• Aleyna Akyuz, physics   
• Md Mahbubul Alam, chemistry   
• Karisa Bridgelal, composition and cultural rhetoric   
• Fatma Celik, religion Amanda Kingston, cultural foundations of education   
• Nelson Donkor, chemical engineering   
• Luanxin Gao, economics   
• Si Gao, counseling and counselor education   
• Falak Hadi, political science   
• Antonia Hamilton, clinical psychology   
• Sadam Hussain, anthropology   
• Geoffrey Huyck, composition and cultural rhetoric   
• Joanne Kim, public administration   
• Amanda Kingston, cultural foundations of education   
• Kaia Kirk, political science   
• Fasika Melese, instructional design, development and evaluation    
• Arda Oz, English   
• Eunji Park, counseling and counselor education   
• Abdul Bashir Pazhwak, social science   
• David Peters, mass communications   
• Caroline Plecki, biology   
• Vatya Raina, anthropology   
• Hannah Rembrandt, speech-language pathology   
• Karie Schmitz, mathematics   
• Soham Sinha, English   
• Ilariac Siriner, cognitive psychology   
• Paige Spencer, religion   
• Aditya Srinivasan, social science   
• Xihe Tian, counseling and counselor education   
• Nathalie Uwamahoro, electrical and computer engineering   
• Benjamin Valen, social psychology   
• Bryce Whitwam, mass communications   
• Jiahe Xing, economics   
• Zonglin Yang, earth sciences    
• Shuo Zhang, economics   

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