Terence C. Halliday

Terry Halliday is Research Professor Emeritus, American Bar Foundation; Honorary Professor, School of Regulation and Global Governance in the College of Law, Regulation and Diplomacy, The Australian National University. Terry studied at Massey University, New Zealand, and the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. He is the author and co-editor of ten books with the university presses of Oxford, Cambridge, Chicago and Stanford. His most recent books are Constitution-Making and Transnational Legal Orders, co-edited with Gregory Shaffer & Tom Ginsburg (Cambridge, 2019); Global Lawmakers: International Organizations in the Crafting of World Markets, with Susan Block-Lieb (Cambridge, 2017); Criminal Justice in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work, with Sida Liu (Cambridge, 2016); and Transnational Legal Orders, co-edited with Gregory Shaffer (Cambridge, 2015). He has published in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Regulation and Governance, Socio-Economic Review, Chicago Journal of International Law, Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, Asian Journal of Law and Society, and International Journal of Public Theology, among others. He is the recipient of numerous article, book and scholarly prizes. He currently edits the International Book Essay section of Law and Social Inquiry. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Australian National University, and has held visitorships at Wolfson College, Oxford. Terry's public commentary on China has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and Le Monde, among others, and he has testified before the U.S. Congress on legal rights in China. With Donald Hay (University of Oxford), Terry founded the Global Faculty Initiative which promotes the integration of Christian faith and academic disciplines in research universities worldwide. With K.K. Yeo, he currently edits the GFI book series, Cross-Disciplinary Encounters with Theology, published by Langham Publications, UK. 

1. 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).
    
2. What drives the rise and fall of the transnational legal orders that are rapidly expanding as legal and regulatory responses to problems that  require solutions beyond the capacity of individual states? (Halliday and Shaffer, eds, Transnational Legal Orders Cambridge UP 2015).
    
3. 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).