Terence Halliday is a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation and an Honorary Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (REGNET) at Australian National University, where he is also a Fellow of the College of Asia and the Pacific. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University and has taught at the University of Chicago.
A specialist in the globalization of law, Halliday has two main avenues of research within this nexus: basic legal freedoms in the broader context of historical and contemporaneous struggles for political liberalism, for which he has co-led international, interdisciplinary networks of country specialists on Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East, and the globalization of law and markets with special attention to the interactions among global, national, and local lawmakers. The latter has involved fieldwork within the UN Commission on International Trade Law; the International Monetary Fund (IMF); and international economic governance organizations, such as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), as well as in China, Indonesia, South Korea, the U.S., and the U.K. on corporate bankruptcy, secured transactions, carriage of goods by sea, anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism. Halliday also works extensively on transnational legal orders. He is the author or coauthor of eleven books and numerous chapters or journal articles.
In addition to his teaching and research, Halliday has consulted with international public policy bodies on global regulation, governance, and lawmaking, including the IMF, OECD, World Bank, and the Government of China. He has briefed the U.S. State Department, the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Council on Global Affairs, and UN forums on the Security Council and the rule of law in New York City. He testified before the U.S. Congress in June 2017 on China’s assault on law. Halliday also contributes to public debate on law and rights in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Le Monde, and Al Jazeera.
His commentary on the fight for basic legal freedoms, an open civil society and moderate state in China can be followed on Twitter @HallidayTerry.
