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 J.S.D. program as far as is relevant. The J.S.D. Program invites approximately six to eight individuals each academic year to contribute to the Visiting Doctoral Researcher position in the J.S.D. 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. Forum where they may present their research.
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 J.S.D. 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 J.S.D. Program at NYU School of Law, 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 2012-2013
Thomas Carter Adams
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
United Kingdom
Tom Adams is a third year doctoral student at the University of Oxford where he works under the supervision of Professor Leslie Green. Tom’s thesis concerns the relevance of conceptual analysis for legal theory. In particular, it explores the interrelationship between linguistic meaning and social ontology.
In the three years prior to coming to NYU Tom was a Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at St Hilda’s College, Oxford where he taught Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Jurisprudence.
Ivana Isailovic
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
Serbia/France
Ivana Isailovic is completing her PhD dissertation at Sciences Po Paris, under the supervision of Professor Horatia Muir Watt. Her doctoral dissertation examines the interplay between legal disciplines - namely private and public international law, and human rights law - central to the construction of global governance patterns, and the processes of identity formation or representation.
Her research interests include critical legal theory, political philosophy, global litigation, gender studies, and law and development.
During the academic year 2011-2012, Ivana was a visiting student at McGill University, and was affiliated with the McGill Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. From 2010 to 2012, Ivana participated in the annual IGLP Workshop organized by the Institute for Global Law&Policy at Harvard Law School.
She taught the course “Introduction to International Economic law” at Sciences Po Paris ( Collège Universitaire) and has been a teaching assistant for courses at Sciences Po Paris and Sorbonne University, including Conflict of Laws and Introduction to Law.
She holds a Master Degree in International Public Law from Sorbonne University( 2007-2008) and a degree in Global Business Law and Governance (2008-2009) - a joint program between Columbia Law School, Sorbonne University,and Sciences Po Paris.
Ana Mara Machado
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
Brazil
Ana Mara França Machado is a PhD Candidate at University of São Paulo (USP), Faculty of Law (2011- ) where she also has obtained her Master’s Degree (2010).
Since graduation at Law School she has worked as a researcher and a teacher in institutions such as Getulio Vargas Foundation School of Law (Direito GV), Brazilian Society of Public Law (SBDP) and Paulista University (UNIP) and has experience in the fields of Sociology of Law, International Law and Criminal Law. Recently she has worked as a researcher to the projects ´Transnational and comparative responses to political corruption´ (supported by International Development Research Centre - IDRC) and ´Informal international Law´ (supported by The Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law - HIIL).
Ana Mara´s research interests include anti-corruption efforts/legislation, money laundry, international cooperation on criminal matters, internationalization of law and the relationship between corruption and development. Her doctoral thesis aims to evaluate the limitations that Brazilian domestic institutions face in transnational political corruption cases, that is, cases whose boundaries have expanded to more than one jurisdiction. One of the central goals of this research is to determine what are the main difficulties faced by authorities in cases of transnational corruption. The methodology of the study focus on case studies that have a transnational component involving the United States, such as an investigation under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) or a civil action before U.S. courts to recover assets located in the U.S.
Bosko Tripkovic
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
Serbia
Boško Tripković is a Law PhD researcher at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (Italy), working under the supervision of Professor Dennis Patterson. His research interests include philosophy of law, constitutional theory, and comparative constitutional law. In his PhD thesis, Boško focuses on the meta-ethical foundations of normative arguments in constitutional adjudication.
Before joining the EUI, Boško worked at the Faculty of Law, University of Novi Sad (Serbia) as a lecturer from 2003 to 2009. He also served as an expert in various projects, most recently for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the EUI (RSCAS). Boško holds an LLM in Comparative, European and International Laws from the EUI, MJur degree from the University of Oxford, and MPhil and LLB degrees from the University of Novi Sad. He is the author of one monograph, and a dozen articles in legal journals.
