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Terence Halliday

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Research Professor

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  • 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: Sep 13, 2008
This project on the globalization of bankruptcy law has produced a book (Law’s Global Markets) and many articles and book chapters. Law’s Global Markets (forthcoming, Stanford University…
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…

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Publications

“The Recursivity of Law: Global Norm-Making and National Law-making in the Globalization of Corporate Insolvency Regimes”
American Journal of Sociology
Cover of Fighting for Political Freedom: Comparative Studies of the Legal Complex and Political Change Fighting for Political Freedom: Comparative Studies of the Legal Complex and Political Change
Oñati International Series in Law and Society, Hart Publishing
“Negotiating Globalization: Global Templates and the Construction of Insolvency Regimes in East Asia”
Law and Social Inquiry

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Presentations

The Fight for First Generation Rights: A Comparative Essay on the Mobilization of the Legal Complex for Basic Legal Freedoms.
Jul 2008
Rhetorical Legitimation: Global Norms as Self-Validating Formal Scripts.
Jun 2008 Susan Block-Lieb, Bruce G. Carruthers
Missing Debtors: National Lawmaking and Global Norm-Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Regimes.
May 2008 Susan Block-Lieb, Bruce G. Carruthers

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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
  • Member, Coordinating Committee, World Consortium in Law and Society