Terence Halliday
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. Halliday co-directs the Center on Law and Globalization. He is Adjunct Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University, and Adjunct Professor, School of Regulation, Justice and Diplomacy, Australian National University. He studied at Massey University, New Zealand, and the University of Toronto, before completing a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago.
Global Norm-making and National Law-making in Corporate Law
With Professor Bruce Carruthers, Halliday published in 2009, Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis, an empirical investigation of global norm-making and national law-making on corporate bankruptcy. Awarded three distinguished book prizes by the American Sociological Association, and funded by the American Bar Foundation and National Science Foundation, Bankrupt and many articles draw on three sets of empirical evidence: (1) a cross-national, time-series analysis of bankruptcy reforms, worldwide, from 1978 to 1998; (2) extensive interviewing and participant observation of international institutions involved in the creation of global norms for corporate bankruptcy; and (3) case studies of bankruptcy law-making in China, Indonesia and Korea since the Asian Financial Crisis.
He is completing a research project with Professor Susan Block-Lieb, Law, Fordham University, on the law-making of international trade law organizations, with special reference to the United Nations Commission on International Trade law (UNCITRAL). Their book on law-making in three areas critical for international trade--carriage of goods by sea, corporate bankrutpcy law, secured transactions law--will be finished in 2011.
The Legal Complex and Basic Legal Freedoms
Halliday is Co-Principal Investigator with Professor Lucien Karpik (Ecoles des Mines and EHESS, Paris) and Professor Malcolm Feeley (University of California, Berkeley) on a National Science Foundation funded project for a long-standing international 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.
Their latest book, Fates of Political Freedom: The Legal Complex in the British Post-Colony, shows how the involvements of lawyers and judges influenced three different trajectories of legal-political change in the new nations that got independence from Britain after World War II. It will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.
Halliday edited (with Lucien Karpik) the first volume in this series on the comparative politics of lawyers in the development of moderate states, civil society, and citizenship (Lawyers and the Rise of Western Political Liberalism, Oxford, 1998). A subsequent volume, Fighting for Political Freedom (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2007) includes fifteen national case studies from four continents with a theoretical Introduction and Postscript.
Criminal Defense in China
In March, 2009, the National Science Foundation awarded Halliday and Sida Liu (University of Chicago and American Bar Foundation) a three-year grant to undertake research on the ability of criminal lawyers in China to protect the basic legal rights of detainees. The research studies everyday practice of criminal defense lawyers across China, the steps to reform China's Criminal Procedure Law, and national and international media coverage of criminal trials in China.
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.
Halliday has served as Editor, Law and Social Inquiry; General Editor, Onati International Series in Law and Society; and Co-Editor, Current Legal Sociology. He has served as President, Section on Sociology of Law, American Sociological Association; President, Working Group on Comparative Studies of Legal Professions, and a Board Member, Research Committee on the Sociology of Law, International Sociological Association. He was a founding Board member of the International Institute in the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain. He currently is a Trustee and member of the Executive Committee, Law and Society Association (USA) and the Chair of its International Affairs Committee.
Recent publications on law and globalization
Terence C. Halliday, Susan Block-Lieb, Bruce Carruthers. 2010. "Rhetorical Legitimation: Global Scripts as Strategic Devices of International Organizations." European Socio-Economic Review, 2009:1-36.
Sida Liu and Terence C. Halliday. 2009. "Recursivity in Legal Change: Lawyers and Reforms of China's Criminal Procedure Law." Law and Social Inquiry, 34:911-950.
Terence C. Halliday. 2009. "Recursivity in Global Law-Making: A Sociolegal Agenda." Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 5:263-290.
Terence C. Halliday. 2009. "The Fight for Basic Legal Freedoms: Mobilization by the Legal Complex." In James J. Heckman, Robert L. Nelson, and Lee Cabatingan (Eds), Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law. London: Routledge/Cavendish.
Terence C. Halliday and Bruce G. Carruthers. May, 2009. Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik & Malcolm M. Feeley (Eds). 2007. Fighting for Political Freedom: Comparative Studies of the Legal Complex and Political Change. Oxford: Hart Publishing (Oñati International Series in Law and Society).
Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik & Malcolm M. Feeley. 2007. “Struggles for Political Liberalism: Reaching for a Theory of the Legal Complex and Political Mobilisation.” In Fighting for Political Freedom: Comparative Studies of the Legal Complex and Political Change, edited by Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik, and Malcolm M. Feeley. Oxford: Hart Publishing