Hauser Research Scholars
The Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University School of Law is pleased to announce scholarship opportunities for junior academics who wish to spend a year in residence at the Law School engaging in research and producing a significant piece of original, publishable scholarship.
The primary mission of the Hauser Research Scholars Program is to facilitate the production of original, publishable legal scholarship by academics at the beginning of their university careers. Our aim is to provide funding and support to such people so that they can dedicate themselves in an academic environment towards completing a significant scholarly project. The Hauser Global Law School Program plans to integrate the scholarly projects of Hauser Research Scholars with the work of colloquia, centers and seminars which are at the core of the intellectual life of the Law School.
Current Hauser Research Scholars
Georgios Dimitropoulos
Greece
Georgios Dimitropoulos completed his Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg, Germany in 2011 under the supervision of Prof. Eberhard Schmidt-Aßmann with the grade summa cum laude. The title of his thesis is “Zertifizierung und Akkreditierung im Internationalen Vewaltungsverbund” (“Certification and accreditation in the context of international integrated administration”) and his monograph with the same title will be published by Mohr Siebeck Publishers. Georgios’ doctoral research was supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Georgios studied law at the Universities of Athens and Heidelberg. He also holds an LL.M. from the University of Heidelberg. In 2008, he obtained the Academy of European Public Law Diploma from the European Public Law Organization (EPLO).During his Ph.D. studies, Georgios was a research assistant to Prof. Schmidt-Aßmann at the Institute for German and European Administrative Law of the University of Heidelberg and at the interdisciplinary research institute FEST e.V., Heidelberg. He also performed independent research at the library of the European Commission in Brussels and the Italian Constitutional Court. Georgios has published in the fields of Global and EU administrative law and the theory of public law in English, German and Greek. During his stay at NYU Law School, Georgios will be conducting research on peer reviews of administrative bodies in global and EU law, focusing on the fields of conformity assessment, finance, nuclear safety and OECD law. He will be furthermore exploring the rising phenomenon of global administrative self-regulation. Prof. Richard Stewart will be his sponsor at NYU.
Emanuel Towfigh
Germany
Dr Emanuel V. Towfigh is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, Germany. He studied Law, Economics and Chinese at the Universities of Münster (Germany) and Nanjing (PR China), and subsequently completed his Legal Clerkship. He earned his Ph.D. with an award-winning dissertation on the legal constitution of religious communities under state and religious legal regimes at the University of Münster in 2005, where he worked as a Research Fellow between 2003 and 2007. Since 2011, he is an elected member of the German Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and at the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. His present research focuses on constitutional law and constitutional theory, applying a behavioral law and economics perspective, and heavily drawing on empirical methods. Currently, he works on questions of political parties, democratic representation, and legitimacy.