Visiting Doctoral Researchers
Visiting Doctoral Researchers are doctoral candidates enrolled in a doctoral degree program at another institution abroad who wish to benefit from spending one year of their research at NYU School of Law. They will be fully integrated into the Global Fellows Program's events and into the J.S.D. program as far as is relevant. The Hauser Global Law School Program invites approximately six to eight Visiting Doctoral Researchers each academic year to contribute to the Global Fellows Program.
The Visiting Doctoral Researchers are actively integrated into the Law School community through various academic and social programs, including an invitation to participate in the J.S.D. Colloquium where they may present their research. By the conclusion of their year in residency, all Visiting Doctoral Researchers 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 Visiting Doctoral Researcher will include the following benefits:
- Participation in all Law School events including those especially for Global Fellows
- Integration, as far as possible, into the activities and events of NYU School of Law's J.S.D. program
- Workspace within the Law Library. Please note that work space is not guaranteed; however, we will do our best to provide some work space if any is available to us
- Access to the NYU School of Law Library, including WestLaw and LEXIS
- An email account
Additional Information & Application Instructions
The invitation to join the Law School as a Visiting Doctoral Researcher 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 Global Fellows from Practice & Government.
Biographical Information for
Current Visiting Doctoral Researchers
Academic Year 2009-2010
Rabeea Assy
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
Israel
Rabeea studied at the University of Haifa where he read for his LLB and LLM. (He graduated with honors equivalent to Summa Cum Laude, ranked 1st in class). In 2000 Rabeea was called to the Israeli Bar, and in 2003 he was admitted to the Criminal Department in the Attorney General Office (Nazareth District). In 2007 he set out to read for his DPhil in Law at Oxford University under Professor Adrian Zuckerman of University College, Oxford. In Oxford Rabeea was a co-editor and then the editor-in-chief of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal. In 2004 Rabeea published (as a co-author) two articles at the Hebrew University Law Journal (Jerusalem), levelling criticism of the Israeli case-law for excessive and unjustified reliance on the evidence of facial identification of defendants in criminal proceedings. This criticism has generally been endorsed by the Israeli Supreme Court leading it to revise its previous position and take a more suspicious stance to the facial identification evidence in criminal proceedings. His LLM (2006) thesis explored the nature of heightened standards of proof in civil cases and offered an innovative theoretical model to explain its meaning, combining together different types of approaches and methods of reasoning (mathematical, inductive, and holistic). For his DPhil, Rabeea currently focuses on the theoretical foundations of the right of access to court and their particular implications for self-represented litigants and ‘vexatious litigants’. Rabeea also has general interest in theology (with particular emphasis on Christianity), Arabic poetry, English literature, and chess.
Yun-I Kim
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
Germany
Yun-I Kim is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Potsdam, Faculty of Law under the supervision of Professor Dr. Markus Krajewski. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the area of international investment arbitration, in particular on the conflict arising from coexisting dispute settlement mechanisms in international investment agreements and investment contracts. Ms. Kim graduated from Cologne University Law School in 2006 where she was a scholar of the German National Academic Foundation. She is a case assistant to Professor Dr. Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel and has been designated Secretary to the Tribunal in various international arbitration proceedings. She also works as research assistant in the leading German law firm in the field of international investment arbitration. Prior to that she was a research assistant to Professor Dr. Stephan Hobe at the Institute of Air and Space Law and the Chair for Public International Law, European and International Economic Law, University of Cologne where she also lectured on contracts and constitutional law. Ms. Kim is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and has published various articles in the field of air law and investment law. She speaks fluent English, French, Korean, and Spanish. During her stay at NYU she will be affiliated with the Institute of International Law and Justice with Professor Benedict Kingsbury as her sponsor.
Nils Christian Langtevdt
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
Norway
Mr. Langtvedt is a research fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo (UiO). His PhD-thesis examines the WTO Appellate Body’s method of interpretation and seeks to analyze the relationship between the tribunal’s rhetoric and the impact of the results, supervised by Dr. Marius Emberland. He is also a lecturer in Public international law and International Economic Law.Previously, Mr. Langtvedt worked as an associate lawyer at Selmer Advokatfirma DA, and he wrote his masters’ thesis on bilateral investment treaties while being employed as a research assistant at the Department of Public and International Law, UiO (2007). He was selected as a Fulbright Fellow for the 2009-2010 academic year to stay at NYU. During his residency, Mr. Langtvedt will continue the work of his PhD-thesis with a particular focus on the teleology and implicit hermeneutics of the Appellate Body. His sponsor at NYU is Professor Robert Howse.
Lucas Lixinski
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
Italy
Lucas Lixinski is currently a Ph.D. Researcher at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Legal Studies in 2008. He has completed his Master’s Degree in Human Rights at Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), with a Specialization in European and Global Legal Practice (Total Law Program, NYU/CEU). His first law degree was obtained in Brazil, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. He has been a visiting researcher at Columbia University School of Law (New York, USA) in the spring of 2007, and participated in an exchange program at the University of Texas School of Law in the spring of 2005. He has clerked at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the fall of 2005 (with a grant from the University of Texas School of Law). His Ph.D. research deals with the legal aspects for the protection of intangible cultural heritage (folklore), and his other research interests include international human rights law, general public international law and the law of regional economic integration. He is a co-editor of a book on the Law of MERCOSUR (Hart Publishing, forthcoming 2009), among other publications.
Miriam Rodgers
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
United States
Miriam Rodgers is a D.Phil. candidate at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Professor John Gardner. Her work on legal philosophy focuses on the forms of justice as they are applied in various areas of law. Ms. Rodgers studied philosophy and economics as an undergraduate at Washington and Lee University (2004) and earned her J.D. from the University of Texas, Austin (2007). At Oxford, Ms. Rodgers taught undergraduate Land Law as part of the University’s Graduate Teaching Assistantship scheme for 2008-2009. She has also been selected to teach undergraduate Jurisprudence as the University’s G.T.A. upon her return to Oxford in the spring of 2010.
Andrew Woods
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
United States
Andrew K. Woods is a PHD candidate at Cambridge University (Politics) where he is a Gates Scholar. His thesis examines the implications of social science experiments about human behavior for the international human rights regime. He is author of “A Behavioral Approach to Human Rights” (Harvard International Law Journal, forthcoming) and co-editor (along with Profs Ryan Goodman and Derek Jinks) of UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL ACTION, PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was also a Hauser Fellow.