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 Visiting Doctoral Researcher Program invites approximately six to eight individuals 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 Visiting Doctoral Researcher program will include the following benefits:
- Participation in all Law School events including those especially of the Global Fellows Program
- Integration, as far as possible, into the activities and events of NYU School of Law's J.S.D. program
- Workspace within the Law School. 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
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 applying, please view the program information and application instructions links.
Current Visiting Doctoral Researchers
Academic Year 2011-2012
Gonçalo Coelho
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
Portugal
Gonçalo Coelho is a third year Law PhD Candidate at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (EUI) and Assistant at the EU Energy Law & Policy Area of the Florence School of Regulation. Gonçalo’s research interests cover Competition, State aid and Regulatory Law and his doctoral studies focus on access to natural resources in network industries.
Before joining the EUI, Gonçalo worked as a Lawyer at the Lisbon office of Cuatrecasas, Gonçaloves Pereira between 2003 and 2006 and as a Legal Officer at the Portuguese Council of Ministers and Ministry for Public Works and Communications between 2006 and 2007. He has also worked as a Lawyer at the Brussels Office of White & Case (2008/2009). Gonçalo holds a Law Degree and Post-Graduations in Competition and Regulation Law (2006/2007) and Law Making and Science of the Legislation (2004) from the Lisbon University. He also holds an LL.M from the EUI (2009/2010) and an LL.M specialising in “European Law and Economic Analysis” from the College of Europe in Bruges, (2007/2008). Gonçalo’s doctoral research is supervised by Prof. Giorgio Monti at the EUI. He is a Fulbright-Schuman student during his time as a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at NYU.
Xiuyan Fei
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
China
Xiuyan Fei is a PhD candidate at University College Dublin under the supervision of Professor Joseph McMahon and at Renmin University of China under the supervision of Professor YIN Li. During the academic year of 2009-2010, she was research assistant to Professor YIN Li at the school of law of Renmin University of China.She used to work at DLA Piper UK LLP Beijing Representative Office in the field of venture capital as legal assistant in 2008 and at North China Electric Power University as teaching assistant from 2003 to 2006. She has publications of "Comment on the Case: Salem Steel North America LLC v. Shanghai Shangshang Stainless Pipe Co., Ltd.," 30(4) International Business Research 4 (2009) (with GONG Bai-hua) and "Comment on the Case: United States - Anti-Dumping Measure on Shrimp from Ecuador," 17 Law Journal of RUC 123 (2007).
Xiuyan's research interest is in international trade law, especially in WTO law. Her thesis is National Law Interpretation in EU, WTO and NAFTA.
Lisa Ginsborg
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
United Kingdom
Lisa Ginsborg is a third year Law Ph.D. candidate at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, working under the supervision of Prof. Martin Scheinin. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the UN Security Council, counter-terrorism and human rights after 9/11, looking specifically at the implications of the work of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee and the 1267 Sanctions Committee on international human rights standards.
Before starting her Ph.D. Lisa worked for three years in the legal department of the International Secretariat of Amnesty International (2006-2009). She has also worked at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) (2005-2006). Lisa holds an LL.M. in Comparative, European and International Laws from the European University Institute (EUI) and an M.Sc. in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her first degree in Philosophy and Sociology was obtained from the University of Sussex, where she was awarded the University Prize in Philosophy.
Krisztina Huszti Orban
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
Switzerland/ Romania
Krisztina Huszti Orban is a Ph.D. candidate in international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, where she is working on a doctoral thesis entitled ‘The Concept of Armed Conflict in International Humanitarian Law’. During her residency at NYU School of Law, her research will focus on the impact of armed external intervention on the classification of armed conflicts and the law applicable thereto.
Krisztina has earned an LL.B. from the Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj Napoca, Romania), an LL.M. in comparative legal and political studies from the Andrassy Gyula German University Budapest and a Master in Advanced Studies (LL.M.) in international humanitarian law from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.
Her research interests include international humanitarian law, protection of human rights during armed conflict and state of emergency, international law relating to the use of force as well as legal aspects of security sector reform and governance.
Krisztina has previously worked with the United Nations Office of Amnesty International in Geneva, the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF).
She is a member of the Swiss Branch of the International Law Association and an alternate member of the ILA Committee on the Use of Force.
Pedro Caro de Sousa
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
Portugal
Pedro Caro de Sousa is a D.Phil candidate at Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford. His doctoral thesis focuses on the interplay between normative and institutional considerations to be found in judicial decisions concerning economic constitutional provisions in federal, co-federal and transnational settings. In his work, Pedro focuses mainly on free movement provisions in the EU setting to demonstrate the dynamic interaction between purely theoretical considerations and the institutional setting where the relevant adjudicatory bodies operate.
Pedro obtained his law degree at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2005. From 2002 to 2004 he worked for the Judge’s Support Cabinet at the Portuguese Constitutional Court. Pedro is also a Portuguese qualified lawyer, and from 2005 to 2008 he worked at Linklaters LLP as an attorney, focusing mainly on EU and Competition law. At Oxford, Pedro has tutored Competition Law to undergraduates in the capacity of a Graduate Teaching Assistant, and tutored EU law at King’s College London in the capacity of Visiting Tutor.