Global Fellows from Practice & Government
Global Fellows from Practice & Government are government officials, judges and lawyers in private practice who wish to take a semester or academic year away from their posts to engage in serious scholarship.This Global Fellows Program category was created in recognition of the fact that legal practitioners in mid-career can replenish and pursue their legal research interests. The Hauser Global Law School Program appoints approximately four Global Fellows from Practice & Government each academic year to contribute to the Global Fellows Program.
The Global Fellows from Practice & Government are actively integrated into the Law School community through various academic and social programs, including the Global Fellows Forum where they are required to present their research. By the conclusion of their semester or year in residency, all Global Fellows from Practice & Government will have produced a major piece of scholarly work to be considered for inclusion in the Global Law Working Paper Series.
Benefits of Participation
Participating in the Global Fellows Program as a Global Fellow from Practice & Government will include the following benefits:
- Participation in all Law School events including those especially for Global Fellows
- A comfortable work space with telephone & computer
- Access to the NYU School of Law Library, including WestLaw and LEXIS
- An email account
- Consideration for a stipend up to a maximum award of $20,000 USD.
Stipend Information
Depending on their personal financial situation, Global Fellows from Practice & Government may be awarded a stipend to help cover the cost of living in New York City during the appointment period. In order to assist Fellows in finding affordable housing in New York City, we negotiated an agreement with a local real estate agent to assist you with the apartment search. More information will be provided following admission to the program.
Additional Information & Application Instructions
The invitation to join the Law School as either a Global Fellow from Practice or Government is also an invitation to a life-long relationship with the Hauser Global Law School Program, one that will continue to foster excellence in legal scholarship. If you are interested in the Global Fellows Program, please view the Application Instructions for further information.
If you are interested in participating in the Global Fellows Program in another capacity, you may wish to view information regarding our Global & Senior Global Research Fellows or our Visiting Doctoral Researchers.
Biographical Information for Current Global Fellows from Practice & Government
Academic Year 2009-2010
Efraim Chalamish
Global Fellow from Practice & Government
United States
Dr. Efraim Chalamish is an international investment law scholar. For more than a decade, he has been involved in international legal practice in New York, Paris and Israel, along with research and analysis of cutting edge areas in public and private international law.Dr. Chalamish received his Doctorate in international economic law from the University of Michigan, where he focused on the future of bilateral investment treaties as a multilateral agreement and on foreign direct investment policy in Israel. He has advised the Israeli government on related matters. During his LLM studies at the University of Michigan he had researched global regulation of human rights in the era of terrorism. He holds a law degree and an LLM from Bar-Ilan Univeristy in Israel, both Magna Cum Laude. His legal background has been complemented by an MBA degree in Finance from Bar-Ilan University. His writing on foreign investment has been published in leading journals in United States. Teaching is a second nature to him. Dr. Chalamish has served as an adjunct professor at Bar Ilan University and Netanya Academic College in Israel and he is a frequent guest speaker at many international organizations, communities, and universities. He is truly passionate about public service and diplomacy, helping various non profit organizations with their strategic thinking and leadership needs. He is the United Nations representative of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers. At New York University he is working on global regulation of sovereign wealth funds and financial markets and its interaction with international investment law regime. Dr. Chalamish will also continue his work on the various links between economic development and economic and national security.
Nozima Kamalova
Global Fellow from Practice & Government
Uzbekistan
Nozima Kamalova, aan attorney and human rights defender, is the director of the Public Defense Office of the Tashkent Board of Lawyers and the founding chair of the Legal Aid Society of Uzbekistan, a nongovernmental organization that works with international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, to safeguard and promote the rule of law (the organization was shut down in 2005 by the Uzbek Court.) Kamalova has been instrumental in the revision of several Uzbek laws related to torture and human rights, and her lobbying activities have influenced much policy and legislation adopted both internationally and in Uzbekistan. She has served as a chief consultant to agencies of the United Nations, and in since 2002, she submitted a number of alternative reports to the United Nation's Committees on human rights violations and concerning the use of torture in her country.Last two years - 2007/2009- Nozima Kamalova was a visiting scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law(CDDRL) at the Stanford University. She was a Radcliffe Fellow in 2007, at Harvard University. In 2006/2005, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Policy fellow, and Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow, National Endowment for Democracy. In 2005, Kamalova was awarded the Chevening scholarship by the United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office and completed courses “Preserving Security and the rule of Law/ Democracy” at the Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy (CSSD) of the University of Birmingham in 2005. In 2003, she completed an advanced course on human rights in Poland at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, and in 1999, she was an International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Fellow. She holds a diploma with highest distinction and honors in Law from Tashkent State University, and graduated from Stanford Law School with (JSM) Degree in 2009. During her fellowship at CDDRL (2007-09), Kamalova continued her research on how Western antiterrorism policies limit civil liberties and freedoms in less-developed, transitional countries. She studied the impact of the war against terrorism on authoritarian countries, with Uzbekistan as an example, and will develop recommendations for legislation and practice.
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.
Kevin Coates
Global Fellow from Practice & Government
United Kingdom
Kevin Coates is an antitrust lawyer and head of unit working in the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission. For the last few years he has worked directly for the Director General, advising him on policy and communications issues. Before that he handled competition cases in the telecoms and media sectors. Before joining the Commission he was European Counsel for AOL Europe, responsible for antitrust and regulatory issues for AOL subsidiary companies in the UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands. A law graduate of Cambridge University and the College of Europe, he qualified as a solicitor with the law firm Lovells in London and Brussels. He is the co-author of the Communications and Intellectual Property chapters in Faull & Nikpay's EC Law of Competition, and is a frequent speaker at conferences on a range of competition law topics. Kevin Coates will be looking at EU and US approaches to antitrust, IP and sector regulation in the Information, Communication and IT sectors.
Any questions regarding the Global Fellows Program should be directed to GlobalVisitors@exchange.law.nyu.edu