Terence Halliday
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 in law-making and institution-building, Halliday co-directs the Center on Law and Globalization and two research programs on law and globalization.
Global Norm-making and National Law-making
With Professor Bruce Carruthers, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Halliday has recently completed a book, Law’s Global Markets, on global norm-making and national law-making on corporate bankruptcy. Funded by the American Bar Foundation and National Science Foundation, the book and related 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 engaged in a parallel study with Professor Susan Block-Lieb, Law, Fordham University, of the United Nations Commission on International Trade law (UNCITRAL). Their book on UNCITRAL’s law-making, with special reference to the production of the Legislative Guide on Insolvency, will be completed in 2008.
The Legal Complex and Political Liberalism
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 an international research collaboration of scholars to study the mobilization of legal occupations (the “legal complex”) in the rise and fall of political liberalism, including basic legal freedoms. He 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).
Their new volume, Fighting for Political Freedom (Oxford, Hart Publishing) was published in the fall, 2007. It includes fifteen national case studies from four continents with a theoretical Introduction and Postscript. Two new projects are underway: one on the legal complex and struggles for political freedom in former British colonies that became independent after World War II; and another on contemporaneous retreats from political liberalism in societies where it has long been established. Both are funded by the National Science Foundation.
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 and Bruce G. Carruthers. Forthcoming, 2009. Law's Global Markets: How International Organizations Shaped Bankruptcy Law after the Asian 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