Terence Halliday

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Research Professor

750 N. Lake Shore Drive
4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago

Bio

A native New Zealander, Terence Halliday studied at Massey University, New Zealand, and the University of Toronto, before completing a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. A specialist…

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Research focus

The globalization of law in markets and politics. The research on law and markets focuses on corporate bankruptcy law and studies (1) how global lawmaking occurs in international organizations; (2) how global actors and national policy-makers negotiate their relationships; and (3) how national lawmaking occurs in global contexts. The research on politics, part of an international research collaborative, analyzes the support or resistance of the legal complex (e.g., lawyers, judges, prosecutors, law faculty) to the establishment of basic legal freedoms.

Projects

Globalization of Law and Markets: Latest finding: Aug 22, 2009; In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008/2009, Stanford University Press has just published Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis. Authors Terence Halliday and Bruce…
Globalization of Law and Basic Legal Freedoms: Latest finding: Sep 5, 2008; Across the world basic legal freedoms are being fought for, consolidated, and defended. That is the case for nations that have never enjoyed those freedoms, for nations that have advanced towards and…
Criminal Defense in China: Latest finding: Aug 22, 2009, with Sida Liu, University of Wisconsin, Department of Sociology and School of Law; Terence Halliday and Sida Liu have been awarded funding by the National Science Foundation (2009-2012) to study the development of criminal procedure law in China. The research has three main…

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Publications

“Recursivity of Global Normmaking: A Sociolegal Agenda”: Annual Review of Law and Social Science
“Recursivity in Legal Change: Lawyers and Reforms of China’s Criminal Procedure Law”: Law and Social Inquiry
“The Fight for Basic Legal Freedoms: Mobilization by the Legal Complex”: Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law

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Presentations

Are Lawyers the Vanguard of Political Liberalism in China?: Nov 2009
‘The Conscience of Society?’ ” The Legal Complex, Religion, and the Fates of Political Liberalism: Sep 2009
Architects of the State: International Financial Institutions and the Reconstruction of States in the Global South Transnational Legal Orders and their Effects: May 2009

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Professional Service & Recognition

Co-Director, Center on Law and Globalization, American Bar Foundation and University of Illinois College of Law
Expert Observer, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group V on Insolvency
Consultancies: World Bank; State Council Office on Restructuring the Economic System, China; Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); Lilly Endowment; Ford Foundation
Member: International Insolvency Institute; INSOL International
Member: American Sociological Association; Research Committee on Sociology of Law, International Sociological Association
Member, Executive Committee, Law and Society Association
Co-Convenor, Collaborative Research Network, The Legal Complex and Political Liberalism, Law and Society Association
Winner, Law and Society Association Prize for the most distinguished article in law and society research, 2007-2008
Member, Coordinating Committee, World Consortium in Law and Society