Global & Senior Global Research Fellows
Global Research Fellows are post-doctoral or tenured academics with a record of strong legal scholarship. More senior academics (for example, faculty members tenured for 10 years or more) at the discretion of the selection committee may be designated as Senior Global Research Fellows.
The Hauser Global Law School Program appoints approximately 10 Global & Senior Global Research Fellows each academic year. All fellows 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. Additionally, they will be treated as much like members of the NYU School of Law Faculty as possible for the duration of their residency. By the conclusion of their year at the Law School, all Global & Senior Global Research Fellows will have produced a major piece of scholarly work to be considered for inclusion in the Global Law Working Paper Series, and a report on their experience in the Global Fellows Program.
An applicant who performs research in comparative constitutional law, comparative civil procedure, Access to Justice, the sociology of law or European integration may, at the discretion of the selection committee, be named the Mauro Cappelletti Global Fellow in Comparative Law. The Neil MacCormick Fellow in Legal Theory may be appointed to a fellow is researching in legal theory, European law and theory, and public law. Additionally, those interested in research and publication in an area related to Jewish law and/or the interaction between Jewish and American law may wish to apply to be appointed as the Gruss Scholar in Residence; those interested in the broader topic of Jewish learning and civilization may be interested in the Berkowitz Fellowship. Finally, New York University is affiliated with the Scholars at Risk Network; those applications that are selected by the Network to attend NYU in this capacity and predominantly involve research on law and/or legal issues will be forwarded to the Global Fellows Program's selection committee for consideration as Global Research Fellows.
Benefits of Participation
Participating in the Global Fellows Program as a Global or Senior Global Research Fellow will include the following benefits:
- Participation in all Law School events including those especially for Global Fellows
- Inclusion, as far as possible, in Faculty events and activities, for example, the weekly Faculty Workshop
- 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 Research Fellows 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 in either of these positions 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 Fellows from Practice & Government or our Visiting Doctoral Researchers.
Current Global and Senior Global Research Fellows
Academic Year 2009-2010
Wolfgang Kerber
Senior Global Research Fellow
Germany
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 Ph.D. 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
Senior Global Research Fellow
United Kingdom
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.
Miriam Aziz
Global Emile Noel Fellow
United Kingdom
Miriam Aziz studied law at Manchester University (1989-1992). She then became a member of the Inner Temple and was called to the Bar of England & Wales in 1994 after which she completed a PhD on the Regulation of Human Experimentation in the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States at the Faculty of Law of the University of Edinburgh (1993-1997). She was a research assistant at the Faculty of Law of the Free University of Berlin from May 1995 until January 1996. She returned to Berlin in October 1997 after having completed her PhD and was based at the Department for Political and Social Sciences of the Free University of Berlin (at the Chair for Public Law and Politics at the Otto Suhr Institut) for three years where she conducted research on European Union and German Citizenship and Comparative Constitutional Law and Theory and also taught courses in both English and German on the Law of the European Union. She acted as chief co-ordinator for Professor U.K. Preuss for the Framework 5 project, 'European Citizenship and the Social and Political Integration of the European Union' (EURCIT) funded by the European Commission. She also worked as a legal consultant for a number of law firms in Berlin during this time. Her last engagement as a consultant for Coudert Schurmann's Berlin office in cases on European Community (EC) law and German law which have included some cases on EC citizenship and EC and German commercial law. She was awarded a Jean Monnet Fellowship (2000-2001) from the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and a Marie Curie Fellowship (2001-2003) from the European Commission to conduct research on the impact of EC law on the national legal orders and cultures of the member states which she documented in The Impact of European Rights on National Legal Cultures (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2004). She has published mainly in the areas of European Community law, German law and Medical law, concentrating primarily on constitutional issues in, among others, the European Law Journal, the Columbia Journal of European Law, European Public Law, the Medical Law Review, Medical Law International and Santé Publique. Between 2005 and 2009, she was an associate Professor in Public and Administrative Law at the Law Department of the University of Siena, Italy. During this time, she also taught courses on European Union Law at Cornell Law School and at Saint Louis University Law School. Miriam Aziz is also an accomplished musician and composer and is currently working on a research project on global law and the arts, which will be the focus of her Emile Noël fellowship at the Jean Monnet Center at New York University Law School (2009-2010).
Sadaf Aziz
Global Research Fellow
Pakistan
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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 Ph.D. 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
Global Research Fellow
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 critizes 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.
Asem Khalil
Global Research Fellow
Palestine
Asem Khalil, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Public Law. He teaches at the Faculty of Law and Public Administration (BA and Master Programs) and at the Master Program in Democracy and Human Rights, in Birzeit University, in the West Bank - occupied Palestinian territory. He also teaches at the Master Program in International Cooperation and Development in Bethlehem University. He is member of the network of experts in the Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration, at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy).
Dr. Khalil received his doctorate (Ph.D.) in Public Law from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), Dottorato in Utroque Iure (Lateran University, Rome) and Master in Public Administration (National School of Administration, France).
Dr. Khalil was the main researcher and supervisor of several research projects and published several books, Reports and Articles in English, Arabic, French and Italian, covering the following topics: constitutional law, constituent power, Palestinian constitutional development, Palestinian refugees, migration law in Palestine, Palestinian nationality, security sector reform, legal protection of women, and methodology of legal research.
Moran Ofir
Global Research Fellow
Israel
Moran Ofir is a Ph.D. 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 Ph.D. 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.
Vlad Perju
Global Research Fellow
Romania
Vlad Perju is an assistant professor at Boston College Law School. He received his legal education in Europe and the United States. He has a law degree from the University of Bucharest (Romania), a maîtrise in European Law from the Sorbonne, and an LLM summa cum laude from the European Academy of Legal Theory (Brussels). He attended the LLM program at Harvard Law School and received a doctoral degree (S.J.D.) from Harvard in 2007 for a dissertation titled “The Province of Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Constitutional Foundations”. He is currently at work to turn the dissertation into a book. At Harvard, he served as a Byse Fellow, a Safra graduate fellow in ethics and a fellow in the Program on Justice, Welfare and Economics. At Boston College, he teaches in the areas of European law, American and comparative constitutional law and legal theory. He currently serves as the professor of theory of the state at the European Academy of Legal Theory. Perju was appointed by the President of Romania to an advisory commission on constitutional reform.
Perju has published in the areas of comparative constitutional law, legal theory and EU law. His latest article, “Reason and Authority in the European Court of Justice”, was published in the Virginia Journal of International Law in 2009. He is currently working on a number of
projects: a comparative study of disability rights in the US, EU and the UN; a project that uses Amartya Sen’s work on positional objectivity to conceptualize the judicial standpoint in proportionality analysis in constitutional law; and a critique of binary approaches to legitimacy in political liberalism.
Mira Sundara Rajan
Global Research Fellow
Canada
Dr. Mira T. Sundara Rajan, DPhil (Oxon), currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Intellectual Property Law, and is a tenured Associate Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She received her law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, and her undergraduate degrees from McGill University and the University of Paris (X). She moved back to Canada in 2004 after 5 years of research and teaching in the UK, at the Universities of Oxford and London.
Mira has been a Visiting Professor at law schools in India, Italy, Canada, and the United States. She acts as a consultant on copyright and law reform matters around the world, including countries such as India, Russia, Japan, and Hungary. Mira has published a book exploring a human rights model of copyright law - Copyright and Creative Freedom: A Study of Post-Socialist Law Reform (Routledge 2006) - and she has been appointed Editor of an Oxford University Press Series - Intellectual Property: Eastern Europe and the CIS (2008-).
Mira has a special interest in the attribution and integrity aspects of authors’ rights in their work, known as “moral rights.” Her work has helped to pioneer recognition for moral rights as human rights, shaping a seminal Indian case establishing the responsibility of the Indian government for protecting works of culture in its care, Amar Nath Sehgal v Union of India (Delhi High Court, 2005). Mira is actively involved in representing the rights and interests of creators. She has written a policy on totem poles for the British Columbia municipality of Duncan, and has advised leading representatives of South Indian Carnatic (classical) music, Inuit intellectual property, and the literary legacies of classic European authors. She is currently at work on a new book in this area, Moral Rights and New Technology, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2010. The project deals with the moral rights implications of digital phenomena from music downloading to the copyright protection of software, and includes a unique exploration of the legal issues surrounding the digitization of museum collections which has grown out of a collaboration with the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford.
Mira’s interest in copyright is part of her family history. She is a great-granddaughter of Indian National Poet, C Subramania Bharati (1882-1921), whose copyright was purchased by the Indian government and given as a gift to the people of India in 1949.
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.
Tetsuya Watanabe
Global Research Fellow
Japan
Dr. Watanabe is currently a Professor at the Faculty of Law, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, where he has been since 2003. He received a doctoral certificate from Kyoto University in 1995 and became Ph. D candidate. He received a Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 2000. He also received an LL.M from Fukuoka University in 1989 and an LL.B from Kyushu University in 1987. Professor Watanabe teaches in the areas of Tax law (Basic Income Taxation, Corporate Taxation and International Taxation as well as other fields of public and constitutional law). His principal research interests are in comparative corporate tax law and tax avoidance (especially in M&A transactions including international aspects) with a focus on US and UK law. He has published numerous articles and papers on this topic. He is also the author of two monographs and co-author of two famous text books. Professor Watanabe was a Visiting Scholar at U.C. Berkeley School of Law (Boalt) in 1998-1999 and at Harvard Law School in 1999-2000. He was a Visiting Professor at University of Munich in 2007 and National University of Singapore (Asian Law Institute) in 2009. He also teaches in Duke University Law School Summer Program (at Hong Kong) in 2009. Professor Watanabe is a board member of the Japan Tax Jurisprudence Association and the Japanese Society for Tax Law. He is a research member of various non-profitable organizations, such as the Japan Tax Research Institute. He is also a member of several important governmental tax committees in Japan, at the Ministry of Finance (MOF), Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC).Professor Watanabe is a Fulbright Scholar in 2009-2010 academic year.
Siobhan Wills
Global Research Fellow
Ireland
Dr Siobhán Wills is a lecturer in law at University College Cork, Ireland and is also on the Executive Board of the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, which is based in the law department. Her field of research is International Humanitarian Law. Her current research focuses on the consequences for ‘protected persons’ of a change in the nature of a an armed conflict from international to non-international. She is also exploring the progress and implications of Security Council Resolution 1325 on the protection of women in armed conflict, which has its tenth anniversary in 2010. She has written a book Protecting Civilians: The Obligations of Peacekeepers which was published by Oxford University Press in March 2009.