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. More information will be provided following admission to the program.
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 2011-2012
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.
Graham Mayeda
Senior Global Research Fellow
Canada
Graham Mayeda is an associate professor of law at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He began his academic career in philosophy, in which he received both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto. His current research focuses on the impact of international trade and investment law on developing countries. He has begun a new project on theories of global justice, which aims at articulating a concept of global justice that takes into account the diverse perspectives of developing countries, as well as a project on the impact of the anti-terrorism policy of Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom on developing countries. He is also interested in the impact of cultural, socio-economic, racial and gender difference in Canadian criminal law. In the area of legal theory, he has written about the nature of common law reasoning and on theories of judgment.
Prof. Mayeda is also very involved in legal advocacy. In November, 2006, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC). ISAC is a legal aid clinic established by Legal Aid Ontario in 2001 to conduct test-case litigation for low-income residents of Ontario (http://www.incomesecurity.org/). Graham has also been involved in litigation with dimensions of both criminal and environmental law. He is currently doing legal consulting for the Commonwealth Secretariat on international investment agreements and developing countries.
Rephael Ben-Ari
Global Research Fellow & Neil MacCormick Fellow in Legal Theory
Israel
Dr. Har'el R. Ben-Ari, PhD (Bar-Ilan University, Israel); LL.M (Public International Law) (cum laude) (Leiden University, Holland); LL.B (cum laude) (Tel-Aviv University, Israel), currently teaches courses and seminars in Public International Law and International Criminal Law, within the LL.B and LL.M programs at the Law Faculty of the Bar-Ilan University. His past professional record also includes the unique positions of an Assistant to the Legal Adviser to the Israel MFA and the Legal Adviser to the Israel Mission in The Hague. When he held these positions, Dr. Ben-Ari was exposed first hand to major international legal developments at their inception, and he took part in the formulation of official policy in various international legal matters. His doctoral research was conducted under the auspices of the Doctoral Fellowships of Excellence Program at Bar-Ilan University – the University's most distinguished doctoral fellowship, under the supervision of the Head of the Political Science Department and the Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation. Dr. Ben-Ari's book, entitled 'The Normative Position of International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) Under International Law – An Analytical Framework', is forthcoming (2011) under the auspices of Martinus Nijhoff publishers. Based on his PhD dissertation, the book engages in a contextual-historical and interdisciplinary evaluation of the potential of contemporary juridical theories regarding the position of INGOs vis-à-vis the subjects of international law to generate solutions for the exercise of unregulated authority outside the state-system.
Congyan Cai
Global Research Fellow
China
Cai Congyan is a professor of international law at Xiamen University School of Law, China. He also is a member of Editorial Board of Journal of East Asia and International Law (JEAIL) published in Korea. His research fields cover public international law, international investment law, and WTO law. His recently focuses on risk society and the evolution of international legal process, “private/public law division” in international law, Great Powers issue in international law from the rising China’s perspective, and structural transformation of investment treaties. His recent articles have been published at such journal as Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL), Chinese Journal of International Law (CJIL), Journal of World Investment & Trade (JWIT), and Manchester Journal of International Economic Law (MJIEL). He sometimes is consulted by China’s Government concerning investment treaty affairs. He may be contacted at caicongyan@xmu.edu.cn
Jasper Finke
Global Research Fellow
Germany
Jasper Finke is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). He works in the fields of public international law, international economic law, and legal theory. His current research project focuses on crisis and law, in particular the relation between crisis and the re-interpretation of existing laws. In addition, he has recently worked on issues of sovereign immunity with regard to the pending case of Germany v. Italy and on the legal controversy over the banning of the veil in France. He holds a Ph.D. in Public International Law from the University Kiel (2003). His thesis on parallel dispute settlement procedures in public international law was published in 2004. Still, upon completion of his graduate studies, he decided that it was time to leave academia for a while. For three years, he worked as a lawyer in a Berlin-based law firm that advises energy companies. His responsibilities included the implementation of European energy regulation and the drafting of energy contracts – but while he enjoyed advising clients and getting to know a more hands-on perspective on law, drafting energy contracts soon lost its attraction. A year spent at Columbia University convinced him that he wanted to return to academia and ever since receiving the LL.M. degree, he has worked as a senior researcher and lecturer.
For more information: http://tietje.jura.uni-halle.de/de/mitarbeiter/dr-jasper-finke.
Jennifer Koshan
Global Research Fellow
Canada
Jennifer Koshan is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Calgary, Canada. Before joining the Faculty, Professor Koshan practiced law for several years in the Northwest Territories as a Crown prosecutor, and she worked as the Legal Director of the British Columbia branch of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), a non-profit equality rights organization. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of constitutional law, equality and human rights law, criminal law, violence against women, and public interest advocacy. In 2004 Professor Koshan was awarded The University of Calgary Faculty Association's Community Service Award for her contributions to the equality seeking community, and in April of 2010 she received a Students' Union Teaching Excellence Award for Constitutional Law. Her recent research has included a study of the judicial treatment of marital rape in Canada over the past 27 years for the Equality Effect, and evaluations of civil and criminal domestic violence regimes in Alberta, Canada. Professor Koshan is also a founding member of the Women’s Court of Canada, a group of academics, activists, and litigators who are rewriting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms equality jurisprudence.
Choong-Kee Lee
Global Research Fellow
Korea
Dr. Choong Kee Lee is a Professor of Law at Hongik University in Seoul. He works in the fields of commercial, financial, corporate and trust law. He obtained his LL.B and LL.M at Seoul National University (1986 and 1988), LL.M at Cambridge University (1991) and Ph.D at Sheffield University (1994). He produced in-depth research on financial regulation, focusing in particular on the British establishment of a single, unified financial regulator and influenced on Korean establishment of a single financial regulator. He participated as an expert adviser in drafting Consolidated Asset Management Act 2003 and other financial Acts. He has also conducted groundbreaking research regarding the introduction of Anglo-American concept of fiduciary law and trusts in Korea, and advised Korean government on introducing/amending Trusts and Trusts-related Acts and served on a number of related government committees. He authored 'Trusts Law'(2007), the most-read and authoritative trusts law text book in Korea and wrote numerous articles and chapters in books.
Federico Parmeggiani
Global Research Fellow
Italy
Federico Parmeggiani has completed a PhD in Law and Economics at University of Siena, defending a thesis about the economic function and the regulation of credit rating agencies. In 2011 he has been appointed as lecturer of Corporate Law at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Faculty of Economics. His main research interests encompass economic analysis of corporate law, securities and financial markets regulation, corporate governance and the economic and legal structure of cooperative companies. His research works have so far related to the effects and the regulation of credit ratings, internal and external controls in corporate governance and shareholders rights. Federico also attended courses on economic and corporate topics at Fordham University School of Law, University of Trento and Gerzensee Study Centre in Bern, Switzerland. Before getting a PhD in Law and Economics, Federico Parmeggiani obtained a Master Degree in Law cum laude at University of Bologna, where after the graduation he started to work as assistant at the Corporate Law Chair.During his academic career Federico has also collaborated with several institutions on corporate and securities law topics. In 2010 he was part of a task force of academics and legal professionals appointed by the TAIEX Office of the European Commission to teach european securities regulation at financial institutions in Turkey and Libya. Such project was aimed at providing those countries’ institutions with a better knowledge about recent european legal developments and about the solutions adopted by member states in implementing EU regulation. At NYU he will be working on a research project on the use of rating triggers in bond indentures, assessing the need for a specific regulation in such sector.
Francesca Romanin-Jacur
Global Research Fellow & Mauro Cappelletti Global Fellow in Comparative Law
Italy
Francesca Romanin Jacur is Researcher in International Law at the University of Milano, Italy. She is a qualified lawyer, admitted to the Milan Bar. In 2007 she obtained her PhD in International Law from the University of Milano. In 2003 she achieved a Diplôme des Haute Etudes Supérieurs (DESUP) at the Paris University (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne/ Collège des Hautes Etudes Européennes Miguel Servet) in EU Law. Her research and her publications are on international environmental law. She has been working as legal adviser to the Italian Ministry of the Environment providing assistance in environmental and climate change law. She was responsible for supervising and facilitating the implementation of greenhouse gases emission reductions projects in the Western Balkans. Since 2003 she holds teaching activities on international law in Italian Universities and abroad. She held capacity-building workshops in Northern Africa (Morocco, Tunisia) and in the Balkans on environmental and climate change law.
Melanie Samson
Global Research Fellow
France
Dr. Mélanie Samson is a public international lawyer specializing in global health Law. She holds a Master’s degree in public law from the Paris VIII University and an LL.M. and Ph.D. in international law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. In October 2010, she defended her Ph.D. thesis on “Public Health Protection and International Economic Law: Health Security under the Challenges of Globalization”. During her doctoral studies, she worked as a research and teaching assistant at the Graduate Institute of Geneva. Dr. Samson’s areas of research and professional interest are international economic law, global health Law and public health. She has published on various aspects of International Law and health law, including the issue of access to medicines in developing countries and her PhD dissertation is currently under preparation for publication. She has previously worked with the World Health Organization, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Health Law Research Network of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie and the French Delegation to the World Trade Organization. More recently, she worked for the French National Cancer Institute (“INCa”) as Head of Projects for more than three years on developing and implementing regulations and standards on the quality of cancer care at the national level and participated in numerous cancer-related international conferences. During her residency at NYU Law School, she will focus on global health standards and the transformation of the international regulatory landscape.