Terence Halliday
Visiting Professor
Professor Terence Halliday is a Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois, teaching Law 796: Global Lawmaking. Professor Halliday is the Co-Director, Center on Law and Globalization, American Bar Foundation and University of Illinois College of Law; Research Professor, American Bar Foundation; and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University. A specialist in law-making and institution-building, Professor Halliday directs three research programs on law and globalization. The first, on the legal construction of global markets, undertakes empirical research on global norm-making and national law-making in the field of corporate bankruptcy law. His latest book, Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis , is forthcoming from Stanford University Press in Spring, 2009, and a second book, on the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) is currently in preparation with Susan Block-Lieb, Fordham University. The second research program, co-directed with Lucien Karpik (Paris) and Malcolm Feeley (Berkeley), involves an international inter-disciplinary research collaboration of scholars who study the mobilization of legal occupations (the "legal complex") in the rise and fall of political liberalism, including basic legal freedoms. The most recent volume, Fighting for Political Freedom (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2007), includes fifteen national case studies from four continents, and a subsequent volume, on political transformations in former British colonies, is in preparation. The third research program, funded by the National Science Foundation and American Bar Foundation, and co-directed with Sida Liu, University of Chicago and American Bar Foundation, undertakes extensive media research and intensive interviews on Chinese lawyers and their struggles to protect basic legal freedoms. Halliday has taught at the University of Toronto, the Australian National University, the University of Chicago, and has been a Visitor, Center for Sociolegal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford University, and the Australian National University. He has served as a consultant to the State Council Office on Restructuring the Economic System, China; the World Bank; OECD; and various non-profit foundations in the U.S.
