Hauser Global Scholars
As part of the Hauser Global Law School Program, the Hauser Global Scholarship was founded in 1995 at the initiative of alumna Rita Hauser and NYU School of Law. Since its inauguration, the Hauser Global Scholarship has become the leading initiative pursuing the adaptation of legal education in the United States towards an increasingly global perspective. It reflects the Law School's conviction that the practice of law and legal research has escaped the bounds of any particular jurisdiction and that legal education can no longer ignore the interpenetration of legal systems.
Each year, 10 of the finest students from countries across the world are selected as Hauser Global Scholars by the distinguished members of the Hauser Scholars Selection Committee. These select individuals — all of whom are LLM students — share their perspectives and experiences from their own legal systems with the rest of the Law School academic community. The Hauser Global Scholars receive a full-tuition scholarship and a living stipend for the year of their studies at NYU and are integrated intellectually and socially in the events of the Hauser Global Law School Program and NYU School of Law.
The Hauser Global Scholars reflect the breadth and diversity of NYU School of Law’s Graduate Division. In the last 10 years of the Program, 95 Hauser Global Scholars have been selected from approximately 44 countries and all continents. After intensive screening of applications by NYU School of Law faculty and admissions officers, Hauser Global Scholars are selected by a committee of distinguished international leaders. 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.
For information on application to the Graduate Division and to the Hauser Global Scholarship, please see the Office of Graduate Admissions.
2024-2025 Hauser Global Scholars
Kheyransa Aliyeva
Azerbaijan
Kheyransa achieved the highest possible score in the entrance exam for bachelor’s studies, ranking 1st among approximately 30,000 examinees in 2012. She matriculated to study law for her bachelor's degree at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and graduated with distinction in 2016. She was awarded the prestigious Presidential Scholarship in 2012, which she continued to receive throughout her studies. During her bachelor's education, she served as a member of the Council of the Faculty of Political Management at the Academy.
She later obtained her master’s degree in commercial law from Baku State University. In the 2016 entrance exam for master’s studies, she achieved a near-maximum score and again ranked 1st among thousands of examinees. She graduated with distinction from Baku State University in 2018.
After completing her education, Kheyransa worked at local law firms, advising clients on various complex legal matters, specifically in contracts, corporate, and labor law. Prior to her enrollment at NYU, she served as Lead Legislative Counsel at the Center for Legal Scrutiny and Legislative Initiatives, where she was involved in the drafting and scrutiny of normative legal acts in the field of private law. She was the main drafter in the working group on the “Improvement of the Civil Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan” under the Commission on Business Environment and International Rankings of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
At NYU, Kheyransa will pursue a Traditional LLM with a particular focus on contracts, corporate, and commercial law.
Khalil Badbess
Kenya
Khalil graduated amongst the top of his class in 2021 with a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) degree from Strathmore University Law School. During his studies, Khalil received the Dean’s List Award for Academic Excellence, which is given to students who demonstrate outstanding academic merit. While at Strathmore Law School, Khalil was the Editor-in-Chief of the Strathmore Law Review, one of Kenya’s premiere legal academic journals. In addition to leading the journal’s editorial board, he helped organize notable scholarly initiatives including the first edition of the Yash and Jill Cottrell Ghai Writing Prize for the publication’s best socio-legal article.
In 2022, Khalil served as a Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant at his alma mater and was an editor at the Strathmore University Press Legal and the faculty-run Strathmore Law Journal. In addition to research that he has published and presented on constitutional law and international economic law issues, he has also been a researcher in projects organized by institutions such as the Strathmore Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology, the African Legal Support Facility, the World Bank, the Heinrich Boll Foundation, the Utawala Applied Research Institute and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Khalil is also the founding Editorial Lead for the Eastern African wing of the Afronomicslaw Academic Forum which is composed of early-career researchers dedicated to studying and contextualizing international economic law as it relates to Africa. In collaboration with other leads and regional boards, he provided substantive research assistance to Forum members and helped organize the Forum’s first conference-cum-symposium. Since 2022, Khalil has served as the Overall Co-Lead of the Forum’s Eastern African wing.
In 2023, Khalil joined the law firm of Nyiha, Mukoma and Company Advocates as a Trainee Advocate. He conducted extensive research and prepared various legal documents and court submissions for the firm’s clients. In particular, Khalil assisted the firm’s pro bono department in matters concerning fair administrative action, constitutional petitions, judicial review, and pension claims.
As a Hauser Global Scholar, Khalil will pursue a Traditional LLM at NYU with a focus on international economic law and development, constitutional law and legal theory.
Anna Binotto Massaro
Brazil
Anna studied law at the University of Sao Paulo (USP), where she graduated top 1% of her class in 2017. She recently concluded a PhD in Commercial Law at USP with a focus on corporate law and antitrust and a dissertation on the liability of controlling shareholders for corporate wrongdoings.
During her doctoral studies, Anna was a visiting researcher at the Private, Commercial and Corporate Law Department at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). She was also a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. She also served as a graduate teaching assistant at the Commercial Law Department at USP, and in the graduate division of FGV Law School in Sao Paulo.
For the past six years, Anna has been practicing law at VMCA, a boutique law firm focused on antitrust and compliance, where she represents national and international clients in merger review and antitrust investigations, offers consulting work and risk assessments, and provides support for internal investigations and compliance programs. She has been listed as “Rising Star” in Antitrust and Competition Law in Brazil by the Legal 500 and was shortlisted as Rising Star of the Year in 2024.
Anna served as a Non-Governmental Advisor for the Brazilian antitrust authority (CADE) at the International Competition Network (ICN). She was also recently selected by CADE to act as an external expert consultant to provide inputs for the authority’s Guidelines on Competitor Collaborations, funded through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). She is also an active and contributing member of the Brazilian Institute of Studies on Competition, Consumer Affairs, and International Trade (IBRAC), of the Sao Paulo Bar Antitrust Chapter (CECORE) and of the network Women in Antitrust Brazil.
Anna is the author of several peer-reviewed papers, book chapters and reports, published in Brazil and abroad. Her research and scholarship have been presented at multiple national and international conferences and has been cited by CADE decisions, guidelines and working documents, as well as by the Brazilian Ministry of Finance. Her work focuses on competition law and policy, corporate liability and corporate and regulatory compliance.
As a Hauser Global Scholar, Anna will pursue a traditional Master of Laws, with a focus on antitrust, corporate governance and corporate compliance and enforcement.
Hussein D. Gulam
Uganda
Hussein is a Ugandan lawyer and legal scholar. He studied law at Makerere University and Uganda’s Law Development Centre where he received the Attorney General’s Award for academic excellence. While at law school, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Makerere Law Journal and worked as a Research Assistant at the Human Rights and Peace Centre. An ardent moot court participant, he notably won the All-Africa Human Rights and ICRC International Humanitarian Law competitions.
After graduating, Hussein clerked for a Justice of the Uganda Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal of Seychelles. He then joined the East Africa Law Society, a regional bar association, as a consultant. Currently, he is a Litigation and Arbitration Associate at ALN Uganda, a leading full-service law firm. He has played a key role in several landmark cases, including a constitutional petition that successfully challenged Uganda’s revenue authority’s attempts to compel commercial banks to make far-reaching blanket disclosures of the protected private information of nearly all their customers. Additionally, he has been involved in a series of appellate post-arbitration cases that have enhanced Uganda’s outlook as an arbitration-friendly jurisdiction. Hussein also occasionally consults for the Uganda Law Society, Uganda’s bar association.
Hussein’s interests lie at the intersection of law and development. He is set to undertake the International Business Transactions, Litigation and Arbitration Program at NYU, with a focus on the developmental aspects of international commercial dispute resolution.
Ciara McLoughlin
Ireland
Ciara McLoughlin is an Irish-qualified lawyer with a track record of academic excellence and professional achievements.
She graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a First Class Honours LLB, ranking at the top of her cohort. During her time at Trinity, Ciara demonstrated exceptional leadership and initiative, serving as Chairperson of Trinity’s Free Legal Advice Centre, founding the Dublin University Journal of Criminology, and acting as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Trinity Women’s Review. Her scholarly contributions were recognized through multiple publications in both student and professional journals. In recognition of her contributions to Trinity Law School, she was nominated by the Dean for an internship at the Office of the Chief Justice of Ireland.
Following her graduation, Ciara worked as a researcher in child and matrimonial law for one of Ireland’s leading family law practitioners. Over the course of three years, she conducted comparative research on complex legal issues, drafted documents for cases before the Superior Courts of Ireland and abroad, and contributed to innovative legal arguments in emerging areas of family law. She also served as Editor-in-Chief of Clarus Press’ Law Magazine.
Ciara furthered her legal education by earning her Barrister-at-Law degree from the Honorable Society of King’s Inns, where she won the prestigious Irish Times Debate. She was called to the Bar of Ireland by Chief Justice Donal O’Donnell in July 2024.
As a Hauser Global Scholar and George Moore Scholar, Ciara will pursue an LLM at NYU, where she will focus on family law, social justice, and human rights, continuing her commitment to these critical areas of legal practice.
Timothy Morgan
Australia
Tim graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) and a Juris Doctor, ranking second in his law school cohort. As a student, Tim won several academic prizes and represented the University of Sydney at the Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, where he was awarded the Martin Domke Prize for best individual advocate.
After graduating, Tim was Tipstaff and Associate to a judge of the New South Wales Court of Appeal and then practised as a solicitor at a commercial law firm. Most recently, he has served as assistant director in the Trade and Investment Law Division of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
At NYU, Tim will focus primarily on international law and dispute resolution, with an emphasis on international economic law. He hopes to pursue multidisciplinary research examining how international legal mechanisms can optimally be designed to contribute to solving problems of global coordination.
Maggie Morris
Canada
Maggie received her Juris Doctor from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. After graduating as the gold medalist and with a number of awards, she clerked at the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and then at the Supreme Court of Canada.
In law school Maggie was a research assistant to Justice Robert Sharpe and Professor Kent Roach on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and to Professor Roach, regarding remedies for human rights violations, Canadian policing, and the report to the Minister of Justice on the creation of an independent miscarriages of justice review commission. She holds a Master of Arts in Anthropology (with honours) from the University of Toronto.
Maggie will do a general Master of Laws, with a focus on remedies for rights violations.
Anh Thu Nguyen
Vietnam
Anh Thu graduated as the valedictorian of Hanoi Law University, earning her LLB summa cum laude. Among her notable accolades, Anh Thu was awarded the Gold Medal at the 2019 International Mediation Singapore Competition, named Hanoi City's Valedictorian of Class of 2020 and recognized as one of Vietnam's outstanding young individuals at the 2020 Vietnam Young Talents Congress.
Professionally, Anh Thu has developed an impressive career at Baker McKenzie Vietnam. She has assisted some of the world's largest companies in both contentious and non-contentious aspects of IP law, including trademarks, copyright, design, unfair competition, anti-counterfeiting, anti-piracy and domain names. In addition to traditional IP work, Anh Thu also boasts expertise in navigating digital media and content concerns for major internet technology companies.
Continuing her commitment to learning and growth, Anh Thu is currently a Hauser Global Scholar at NYU Law, pursuing her LLM in Competition, Innovation and Information Law.
Favour Ogini
Nigeria
Favour obtained her Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree with first class honours from the University of Benin, Nigeria in 2019 where she emerged as the best graduating student (summa cum laude) in the Faculty of Law in a class of over 200 students and received several awards. At the University, Favour served in various leadership roles, including acting as a Judge of the ACE LAWSA Jural Court and heading the Gani Fawehinmi Students’ Chambers. Thereafter, she obtained a Barrister at Law (BL) degree with first class honors from the Nigerian Law School in 2021 and received awards as part of the top 0.07% in a cohort of over 5,000 candidates.
After her admission to the Nigerian Bar in 2021, Favour joined G. Elias, a pre-eminent business law firm in Lagos, Nigeria as an Associate, where she provided bespoke legal advisory services to diverse clients as a key member of the firm’s Intellectual Property (IP), Finance, Energy and Projects practices. Favour has advised several multinationals, financial institutions, start-ups and leading fast-moving consumer goods (FCMG) companies on the protection and commercialization of their IP rights. She represented G. Elias at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the International Trademark Association (INTA) in Singapore and is a member of the Brands and Innovation Committee of INTA. Favour has also advised on several landmark and industry-defining finance and infrastructure development transactions including local and cross-border foreign-currency-denominated syndicated and non-syndicated project financings across different sectors of Nigeria’s economy.
As a distinguished Hauser Global Scholar, Favour will pursue an LLM in Corporation Law at NYU.
Vincent Weber
Germany
Vincent studied law in Bayreuth, Germany. He also completed an “Additional Education in Economics for Lawyers” at the University of Bayreuth. During his studies, he worked as an advisor for the local legal clinic Law&Legal e.V. After graduating from the University of Bayreuth in 2020, Vincent started his legal clerkship at the Regional Court of Bayreuth. He also worked as a research and teaching assistant at the chair of Professor Heinrich Amadeus Wolff at the University of Bayreuth. There, Vincent taught courses in German administrative law and environmental law.
After passing the Second State Examination in Bavaria, Vincent moved to Düsseldorf (Germany) and started working as a research and teaching assistant at the chair of Professor Rupprecht Podszun at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. During this time, he started his PhD thesis in European Competition Law and taught undergraduate students in Private Law. Vincent continued his extracurricular activities as a supervisor at the Düsseldorf/Bonn Law Clinic and as a member of GrundGesetzVerstehen, where he assisted in the preparation of lessons on the German Constitution (“Grundgesetz”) for schoolchildren.
As a Hauser Scholar, Vincent will pursue a traditional LLM with a particular focus on competition law, public law and legal theory.