Terence C. Halliday
Research Professor, American Bar Foundation
Honorary Professor, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University
Adjunct Professor, Sociology, Northwestern University, USA
Biography
Terry studied at Massey University, New Zealand, and the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. Halliday has authored or edited 10 books published by the academic presses of Cambridge, Chicago, Oxford and Stanford universities, and has written extensively on the globalization of law, markets and politics. His most recent books develop an interdisciplinary theory of legal orders (Transnational Legal Orders, co-edited with Gregory Shaffer, Cambridge UP 2015), analyze the fight for basic legal freedoms in China (Criminal Justice in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work, with Sida Liu, Cambridge 2016), and offer an empirical study and new theory of global governance of international trade (Global Lawmakers: International Organizations in the Crafting of World Markets, Cambridge UP 2017). He has taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Australian National University, and been a visiting scholar at the Centre for Sociolegal Studies, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and Sciences Po, Paris. With Donald Hay (University of Oxford), Terry co-convenes the Global Faculty Initiative which seeks to promote the integration of Christian faith and academic disciplines in research universities worldwide.
Academic biography
https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/people/terence-halliday/Academic CV
Research topics
- How do international organizations, such as the United Nations, World Bank or IMF, make laws that govern global commerce and in whose interests? Cognate topics include the globalization of law and markets; the recursivity of legal change in global contexts; and hard and soft law in global governance (Block-Lieb and Halliday, Global Lawmakers, Cambridge UP, 2017).
- What drives the rise and fall of transnational legal orders which are rapidly expanding as legal and regulatory responses to problems that seem to require solutions beyond the capacity of individual states? (Halliday and Shaffer, eds, Transnational Legal Orders Cambridge UP 2015).
- How do states, international organizations and publics mobilize to hold China accountable to global norms on basic legal freedoms, an open civil society, and checks and balances on arbitrary state power? Cognate topics: the role of the legal complex in the fight for political liberalism; social ecologies of activism in international arenas. (Liu and Halliday, Criminal Defense in China Cambridge UP 2018).