Hauser Global Scholars
The Hauser Global Scholars Program, a part of the Hauser Global Law School Program, offers generous financial support to a limited number of outstanding foreign students for one year of study at New York University School of Law enrolled in the course leading to the LL.M. degree. In addition to pursuing their degree program, Hauser Global Scholars participate in special programs and events throughout the year.
The Hauser Global Scholars reflect the breadth and diversity of NYU School of Law's Graduate Division. In the first eight years of the Program, 92 Hauser Global Scholars have been selected from approximately 34 countries and all continents. After intensive screening of applications by NYU School of Law faculty and admissions officers, Hauser Global Scholars are selected by an international committee chaired by the President of the International Court of Justice. They are chosen on the basis of their intellectual and leadership ability and their capacity to participate productively in a global community of scholars and practitioners. Each Hauser Global Scholar receives full tuition and reasonable living expenses, including rent and the cost of textbooks and other study materials.
For information on application to the Graduate Division and to the Hauser Global Scholarship, please see the Office of Graduate Admissions.
Current Hauser Scholars
Mr. Vladimir Andric
Bosnia-Herzegovina
In 2005, Vladimir Andric graduated from the School of Law of the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina with the degree of Bachelor of Laws; he graduated in the top one percent of his class. During his studies at the Sarajevo School of Law, Vladimir was awarded the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Scholarship for exceptional social activity. He also served as a property law teaching assistant for two years.
His work experience includes work at the Human Rights Commission within the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, War Crimes and Organized Crime Chambers of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crimes and Corruption of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Vladimir is one of the founders and a member of the Board of Directors of NGO Young Lawyers Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as a member and research associate for criminal law and intellectual property law with the Law Institute in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He considers himself an unwavering idealist.
At NYU School of Law, Vladimir will pursue an LL.M. in Competition, Innovation and Information Law.
Ms. Tessa Bromwich
New Zealand
Tessa Bromwich graduated from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, in 2007, with a Bachelor of Laws degree (with first class Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts (majoring in English Literature and History).
After graduating, Tessa clerked for Dame Sian Elias, the Chief Justice of New Zealand, in the Supreme Court of New Zealand for eighteen months. Since 2009, Tessa has worked at the Crown Law Office of New Zealand, where she is now an Associate Crown Counsel. This role entails advising and representing the executive government in civil litigation.
Tessa’s interest in the law centres on the tension between individual and societal freedom and responsibility. At NYU, she will pursue a Traditional LL.M. focussing on constitutional law and legal theory. Tessa also comes to NYU as a Fulbright Fellow.
Mr. Michael Dafel
South Africa
Michael Dafel earned a Bachelors of Commerce: Specialization in Law (cum laude) in 2007 from the University of Pretoria (UP), South Africa. Thereafter, he obtained a Bachelors of Law (LLB) (Cum Laude) in 2009 also from the University of Pretoria, graduating among the top five of his class. He has also earned a Bachelors of Commerce (Honours) in Financial Management in 2010. Michael was awarded numerous academic awards during the completion of his studies and was placed on the Dean’s Merit List.
Michael was an active member of the student body at UP during his tertiary education. He was appointed into the executive structures of UP’s Constitutional Tribunal. The Tribunal is a student governance structure which sits as a member of the Student’s Disciplinary Committee, is responsible for the organization of the student representative elections and sits as an arbiter in certain student body disputes. He was also an executive member of the Moot and Debating Society. Michael was part of the winning UP team at the inaugural International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition in The Hague in 2007. He participated in this Moot Court Competition again in 2009 where UP placed seventh.
In the second year of his LLB studies, Michael was appointed a tutor, and tutored students in legal skills and other mercantile law subjects until the completion of his LLB. He was also appointed a legal research assistant to Professor Frans Viljoen (Director for the Centre for Human Rights) and Professor Duard Kleyn (former Dean of the Faculty). After the completion of his LLB, Michael was employed as a junior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at UP and clerked for Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng at the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
Michael is enrolled in the International Legal Studies program and will focus on globalization and human rights. Michael is also studying with the support of a grant by the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust.
Ms. Luciana Garcia
Peru
Luciana Garcia graduated summa cum laude and first in her class from the Universidad de Lima in Peru in 2008. In recognition of her academic performance, she received the 2008 Award for Academic Excellence in Laws by Peru’s Public Registry Office. Luciana was admitted to the Peruvian bar in 2009.
While attending law school, she received a full tuition scholarship for the best GPA in the school for three consecutive semesters, was a founding member of Universidad de Lima’s United Nations Studies Circle, and represented Peru as part of Universidad de Lima’s first delegation to the Harvard National Model of the United Nations in Massachusetts. Luciana also worked in the Competition Area of Muniz, Ramirez, Perez-Taiman & Olaya Abogados Law Firm, the largest law firm in Peru and interned in the legal department of Peru LNG S.R.L., a project launched by an international consortium and a resource to the Peruvian government's energy strategy. She then moved to the public sector to assist with the implementation of the US-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement at the Principal’s Advisor’s Office of the External Commerce and Tourism Ministry of Peru and later joined the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI) where she worked at the Defense of Competition Chamber of the Tribunal in proceedings relating to the defense of competition and consumer protection.
Upon graduation, Luciana worked at the Legal Division of the Inter-American Investment Corporation in Washington D.C., where she primarily drafted and revised loan and security agreements to fund financial institutions and small and medium-sized enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean. She then joined the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) Integration and Trade Sector. Among other tasks, Luciana assisted with the management of IDB’s Regional Public Goods Initiative, launched to promote regional public policy solutions to integration challenges through collaboration of countries from Latin America and the Caribbean and helped with the new IDB Strategy on Competitive Regional and Global Integration.
Luciana speaks fluently Spanish, French, and English and is currently learning Portuguese. At NYU, she will pursue an LL.M. in Competition, Information and Innovation Law.
Ms. Serafima (Sima) Ostrovsky
South Africa
Sima Ostrovsky graduated from the University of Cape Town Law School in 2006. She obtained the Bachelor of Laws degree cum laude, ranking first in her class. Prior to undertaking a law degree, Sima obtained a Bachelor of Business Science (Honours in Finance) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She was awarded this degree summa cum laude.
On completion of her legal studies, Sima worked as a law clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa. She maintained her connection to the Court by serving, until her departure for New York, on the management committee of the Constitutional Court Clerks’ Alumni Association. The Alumni Association organises events and seminars aimed at the development of constitutional law and the ethos of a democratic society.
After spending a year at the Constitutional Court, Sima completed her articles of clerkship at a leading South African law firm, Webber Wentzel. In 2010, she was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa and was appointed as an associate at Webber Wentzel. Sima’s practice focuses on competition law, including cartel-related litigation, advising on prohibited practices and merger notifications in South Africa and Africa. She has been involved in a number of high profile matters, including the recent acquisition by Walmart Stores Inc. of Massmart Holdings Limited.
Aside from competition law, Sima is passionate about education. She tutored for a number of courses while completing her undergraduate and graduate degrees and has continuously been involved in education initiatives in South Africa. Sima acted as a Finance Director of, and a tutor for, the Sithembele Matiso Social Development Project which provides academic support to High School students at the Khayelitsha Township, Cape Town. Before leaving for New York, Sima was involved in the Alexandra Education Committee initiative, which provides financial, academic and mentoring support to scholars from the Alexandra Township, Johannesburg.
At NYU, Sima will pursue an LL.M. degree specialising in competition, innovation and information law.
Ms. Rosa Raffaelli
Italy
Dr. Rosa Raffaelli received her law degree summa cum laude from the University of Pisa (Italy) in October 2006. During her years at law school, she was also a student at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, a prestigious and highly selective public university which admits a small number of students, offering them a full scholarship. Rosa obtained her Ph.D. in Criminal Law summa cum laude from Scuola Sant'Anna in November 2010. During her years as a PhD Student, she obtained merit-based scholarships from Scuola Sant'Anna and from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Office), which financed her research period at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.
Rosa has worked at the International Criminal Court for more over a year, first as an intern and later as a legal assistant. She is also a qualified lawyer in Italy. Her primary areas of interest are international and domestic criminal law, immigration law, and corporate responsibility. She has published a number of articles and book chapters and presented at international conferences on these topics.
Rosa speaks Italian, English, French and German.
Ms. Qian Su
China
Qian Su obtained her Bachelor of Laws degree in 2002 from Lanzhou University School of Law where she ranked at the top of her class and was awarded scholarships and honors for academic excellence.
She later pursued her Master of Laws degree at Peking University Law School. In 2004 she participated in a research project on discrimination against Hepatitis B Virus carriers in China sponsored by Oslo University Human Rights Center, in which she interviewed with Hepatitis B carriers in various cities to gather information on the employment status of Hepatitis B carriers. The research findings contributed to enactment of legislation in 2007 forbidding discrimination against Hepatitis B carriers in recruitment. During her graduate studies, Qian also participated in a summer training program on Swedish labor law for Chinese scholars sponsored by the Swedish International Development Agency in 2004. Qian was responsible for translating the English course materials into Chinese; the work was published by Peking University Press in 2008 in a book entitled Critical Introduction to Swedish Labor Law. Qian served as a teaching assistant to Professor Ronald C. Brown (a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer from William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii) when he was a guest lecturer at Peking University Law School in 2004-2005.
Qian has worked as an associate at King & Wood (one of the leading law firms in China) in Beijing for 6 years, specializing in the areas of foreign investment in China, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters. She has extensive experience representing multinational companies, private equity firms and venture capitalists in their investments in China. She has worked on many high-profile projects in a wide range of industries including transportation, entertainment and media, financial, forestry, high-tech, machinery, mining, power and real property.
Qian passed the Chinese national bar examination in 2004. At NYU School of Law she is pursuing an LL.M. in Corporation Law.
Ms. Tiantian Zhuang
China
Tiantian Zhuang obtained her LL.B and LL.M degree, magna cum laude, from Peking University Law School, and also obtained a Bachelor of Economics degree from China Center for Economic Research of Peking University. She was an editor of the Peking University International and Comparative Law Review and received a number of merit based scholarships and honors throughout her studies in Peking University. Tiantian was active in moot court activities and represented Peking University in PHILIP C. JESSUP International Law Moot Court Competition in 2007 and WILLEM C. VIS International Commercial Arbitration Moot in 2008. She was also devoted to promoting the legal and culture communications among Asian law students. She was one of the founding members of the International Law Student Association of PKU and took part in organizing many significant activities on campus.
After graduation in 2008, Tiantian joined Clifford Chance LLP and primarily worked on the areas of banking & finance, derivatives and regulatory. Before that, she also interned with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd., Tax & Business Advisory Department and Junhe Law Offices, a leading law firm in China.