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

Terence Halliday is a specialist in globalization and law. He focuses on globalization of markets and politics, with particular attention to global norm-making in international organizations. …

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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: Jun 15, 2011; In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008/2009, Stanford University Press published the prize-winning Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis. Authors Terence Halliday and…
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: Jun 15, 2011, with Sida Liu, University of Wisconsin, Department of Sociology and School of Law; Terence Halliday and Sida Liu are conducting a National Science Foundation funded research program (2009-2012) that studies the development of criminal procedure law in China. The research has three…

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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

Politics in Everyday Work: Motivations and Coping Strategies of Chinese Criminal Defense Lawyers.: Aug 2010 with Sida Liu
Political Liberalism as an Ethical Ideal: Have Lawyers' Struggles for Basic Legal Freedoms any Place in the Scholarship and Teaching of Legal Ethics?: Jul 2010 Linda Haller
Colonialism’s Legacies: Variations on the Theme of Political Liberalism in the British Post-Colony: Jul 2010 with Lucien Karpik

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Professional Service & Recognition

Co-Director, Center on Law and Globalization, American Bar Foundation and University of Illinois College of Law
Winner 2010 Prize for Best Scholarly Book published in 2008 and 2009, American Sociological Association, Section on Global and Transnational Sociology
Co-Winner 2010 Prize for Best Book published in 2008 and 2009, American Sociological Association, Section on Sociology of Law.
Winner 2010 Viviana Zelizer Distinguished Scholarship Award for the outstanding book published in the field of economic sociology in 2008 and 2009, American Sociological Association, Section on Economic Sociology.
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
Winner, Law and Society Association Prize for the most distinguished article in law and society research, 2007-2008