Hyojung Bae
Post-Doctoral Global Fellow
Republic of Korea
hb3002@nyu.edu
Hyojung Bae has recently joined NYU Law as a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow. She is conducting research on “A Comparative Study of Tax Regulations on Digital Assets – Focusing on Legislative and Administrative Approaches in the United States and South Korea.” The ultimate objective of this study is to establish a justifiable legal framework for the taxation on digital assets in South Korea, drawing from the taxation guidelines and precedents in the United States, while aligning with the practical aspects of transactions involving digital assets.
After undergoing 2 years of training at Judicial Research Training Institute of South Korea, she became a licensed attorney in South Korea, with a decade of practical experience at a securities corporation and law firm. She also served as a Commissioner at the Busan District Court, presiding over mediations arising from civil and commercial disputes. Following the completion of her doctoral degree, she was appointed as a National Tax Examination Committee member at the National Tax Services of Busan Regional Office. Additionally, she has gained experience of a visiting professor in the department of Taxation and Accounting at Korea Open University.
She earned a PhD in Tax Law from Seoul National University. Recently, she has been working as a Senior Research Fellow at the Korean Society of Law, where she has been responsible for conducting research on numerous legal issues commissioned by the Supreme Court of Korea. She is passionately engaged in the field of Tax Law as a young scholar. She has published several papers dealing with tax law issues and was recently selected as a Promising Researcher by Tax Law Association of South Korea, participating in several discussions on academic seminars.
At NYU, as a Grantee of the Fulbright Scholarship during the academic year of 2024-2025, she will delve into in-depth research on tax issues related to digital assets and disseminate her outcomes. Through this work, she aims to serve as a bridge between academia of South Korea and the United States.
Center Affiliation: Graduate Tax Program
Research Project: A Comparative Study of Tax Regulations on Digital Assets
Nour Benghellab
Post-Doctoral Global Fellow
nb4104 @nyu.edu
Bio coming soon.
Center Affiliation: Institute for International Law and Justice
Research Project: Genealogy of National-Socialist Colonial Legal Concepts
Sam Bookman
Post-Doctoral Global Fellow
New Zealand, United States
sb10344@nyu.edu
Sam Bookman is a Postdoctoral Global Fellow. His SJD dissertation, submitted at Harvard Law School, focuses on how environmental challenges such as climate change alter our existing conceptions of constitutional law, and particularly constitutional rights. His research adopts a mix of doctrinal, comparative, and empirical methods. His research at NYU will focus on the implementation and impact of rights-based climate litigation. He is particularly interested in the use of environmental rights-based claims by social movements.
Sam was previously a Graduate Fellow at Harvard's Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, and an Adjunct Professor in climate law at Boston College. He is active in international environmental law practice, serving as Senior Staff Attorney at the Cyrus R. Vance Center for international justice, where he has advocated for clients before international courts and tribunals. Sam started his legal career as a Judge's Clerk to the Chief District Court Judge of New Zealand. Sam's work has been published or is forthcoming in the Modern Law Review, Utah Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, the German Law Journal, and the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. After his fellowship at NYU, Sam will return to Harvard Law School as a postdoctoral fellow in the Project on the Foundations of Private Law.
Center Affiliation: Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law
Research Project: Climate Litigation: What Happens When You Win?
Stefania Cirillo
Post-Doctoral Global Fellow
Italy
sc11602@nyu.edu
Stefania Cirillo is a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow associated with the Center on Civil Justice at NYU, where her current research delves into the influence of ideologies in comparative studies of civil procedure law. She is also a post-doctoral researcher at Bocconi University, Italy, contributing to a project entitled “U.S. dispute resolution mechanisms and novel models of summary adjudication in civil law systems.” Stefania’s primary academic interests lie in Civil Procedure, Bankruptcy Law and Arbitration Law, especially in a comparative perspective. Her recent papers and presentations have explored topics such as comparative research on judicially-led settlement, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods, as well as the characteristics of adversarial and non-adversarial systems, and summary judgment.
Stefania earned both her JD in Law and PhD in Legal Studies from Bocconi University. Her doctoral research focused on the role of judicially-led settlement. During her PhD, she spent a period as a visiting PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law in Luxembourg.
Before commencing her PhD studies, Stefania gained three years of experience at an international law firm, in the Trial and Litigation Department. She is also an Attorney at Law in Italy.
Center Affiliation: Center on Civil Justice
Research Project: The Role of Ideologies in Comparative Studies of Civil Procedure Law
Marco Dell'Erba
Global Research Fellow
mde285@nyu.edu
Bio coming soon.
Center Affiliation: Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance
Research Project: The Law of the Metaverse. Finance as a Constitution?
Alon Harel
Senior Global Research Fellow
Israel
ah7452@nyu.edu
Alon Harel is Mizock Professor of Law and a member of Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University. Professor Harel works in several fields: moral and political philosophy, criminal law theory, constitutional law theory and also law and economics and behavioral law and economics.
His book Why Law Matters (OUP, 2014) challenges the view that law is merely an instrument designed to render the right or correct in decisions. Contemporary political and legal theory typically justifies the value of political and legal institutions on the grounds that such institutions bring about desirable outcomes - such as justice, security, and prosperity. Why Law Matters presents the argument that legal institutions and legal procedures are valuable and matter as such, irrespective of their instrumental value. The book shows that instrumental justifications fail to identify what is really valuable about public institutions and fail to account for their enduring appeal.
His most recent book Reclaiming the Public (CUP, 2024) develops a theory of political authority. In this book Harel argues that ultimately the state’s authority is grounded in its ability to speak in the name of all. This explains why political authority is necessarily public; it represents those who are subject to it and, consequently, those who are subject to it are, in principle, accountable for the authority’ decisions. Further, he argues that the value of public institutions is not grounded (only) in the contingent fact that such institutions are particularly accountable to the public. Instead, some goods are intrinsically public; their value hinges on their public provision.
During his stay at NYU, Professor Harel plans to write a book on constitutional theory where he aims to establish that there is a distinct value in entrenching rights in the Constitution rather than merely protecting them in legislation. More specifically he wishes to establish the claim that the institutional source of a legal norm—be it the constitution, legislation, and so on—affects its nature and value. When different institutions use identically-worded norms, say, ‘everyone is equally entitled to X,’ they may nevertheless produce different norms and provide different goods. For instance, a constitutional protection of a basic right differs from a statutory right to the same right not (only) because the former is less likely to be changed but because a constitutional decision marks the right in question as one that makes no essential reference to the actual choice of the majority of the political community.
Center Affiliation: Center for Law and Philosophy
Research Project: A Liberal Perspective of Constitutionalism
D. Tinashé Hofisi
Post-Doctoral Global Fellow
Zimbabwe
dth6583@nyu.edu
D. Tinashé Hofisi is a Hauser Post-Doctoral Global Fellow at NYU Law. His research interests include judicial design, constitutional enforcement, human rights, and comparative constitutional law. Tinashé's doctoral project investigates the effectiveness of constitutional adjudication in southern Africa, focusing on Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
He is a YALI Mandela Washington Fellow, an IFES Manatt Fellow, and an ILS Law and Society Fellow. Tinashé has published in the Journal of the International AIDS Society, the Global Administrative Law Series, the Social Science Research Network, the University of Fort Hare's Speculum Juris, and the Zimbabwe Electronic Law Journal. His work is also in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Economic, Social & Cultural Rights.
Tinashé is a frequent blogger and serves as the Secretary General of the Electoral Committee to the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers. For the past four years, he was a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Centre for Law, Society, and Justice, where he developed an interdisciplinary course on courts, constitutionalism, and human rights. His research at NYU assesses the effectiveness of Presidential Election Dispute Resolution (PEDR) in apex African courts in the context of judicial legitimacy and electoral integrity.
He is a human rights lawyer with an SJD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an LLM from Loyola University, Chicago, and a Bachelor of Laws Honors Degree from the University of Zimbabwe. He also holds certificates in Constitution-building in Africa and Strategic Human Rights Litigation from the Central European University.
Center Affiliation: Center on Civil Justice
Research Project: The Higher the Appellate Court, the Lower the Public Support? Legitimacy and Judicial Design in African Presidential Election Petitions
Alon Jasper
Post-Doctoral Global Fellow
aj4566@nyu.edu
Bio coming soon.
Center Affiliation: Institute for International Law and Justice
Research Project: Fostering Flows: The Role of Infrastructure in Legal Reasoning
Henry Krahn
Post-Doctoral Global Fellow
Canada
hfk8861@nyu.edu
Henry Krahn is a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Center for Law and Philosophy. His research focuses on moral and political philosophy, particularly on what protest movements can tell us about the intersection of the two.
Henry completed his PhD in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, where he held an Ontario Graduate Scholarship and Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto Centre for Ethics. His doctoral project developed a new theory of political protest as a form of holding others accountable, offering a robust account of the nature and justification of accountability-seeking protest.
At NYU, Henry is working on a research project tentatively titled “Reimagining Reasons: Protest and Deep Moral Change.” This project examines the connection between protest and moral change, evaluating the radical claim that the fundamental principles of morality might themselves be alterable and considering the implications of this claim for the movements that seek to alter them.
Center Affiliation: Center for Law and Philosophy
Research Project: Reimagining Reasons: Protest and Deep Moral Change.
Darina Petrova
Post-Doctoral Global Fellow
Finland
dp4119@nyu.edu
Darina Petrova is a Post-Doctoral Fellow affiliated with the Institute for International Law and Justice. Her research explores the mechanisms of global governance and the outcomes that they produce, employing the analytical frameworks of critical legal studies and science and technology studies (STS).
Darina obtained her doctoral degree from Sciences PO Law School. Her doctoral dissertation examined how the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) legitimized its members as a community of developed nations, created cause-and-effect narratives accepted as 'common sense' in global governance, and influenced various fields of international law. Her post-doctoral research at the University of Helsinki delved into the legal dynamics underpinning green development by examining Nordic investments in wind energy in the Global South. At NYU, Darina’s research will focus on the BRICS project and its implications for international law and global governance.
Previously, she has been a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School and the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights. She has taught public international law at Sciences PO and seminars on sustainability in global governance at the University of Helsinki. Prior to academia, Darina worked as a Legal Analyst at the OECD Environment Directorate’s Unit for Accession and Global Relations and interned at the UN Department of Political Affairs and the International Court of Justice.
Center Affiliation: Institute for International Law and Justice
Research Project: The Making of Alternative Global Governance: BRICS project and its influence on international law
Poonam Puri
Senior Global Research Fellow
pp3138@nyu.edu
Bio coming soon.
Center Affiliation: Pollack Center for Law & Business
Research Project: The Future of Corporate Governance and Financial Markets in an Era of Digital Disruption
Eric Shoemaker
Post-Doctoral Global Fellow
Canada
eas891@nyu.edu
Eric Shoemaker is a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow at NYU. His research at NYU focuses on the democratic values embedded in the jury system, and how this might inform our evaluation of proposed reforms to the political system of democracies more broadly. Before coming to NYU, Eric has written extensively about democratic theory as it relates to Citizens’ Assemblies. He has won the Erik Olin Wright Prize from the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice, for his paper “A Justification for Political Random Selection Based on Democratic Equality”, in which he advocates for the replacement of political representation by elected officials with political representation by mini-publics composed of randomly selected citizens. He has published his research in several academic journals, including Public Affairs Quarterly, and presented his research at 18 conferences since 2021.
As a lecturer at the University of Toronto, Eric has taught many courses related to political philosophy, philosophy of law, bioethics, environmental ethics, and business ethics. Eric has also helped to develop the curriculum for the University of Toronto’s Embedded Ethics program, and delivered many guest lectures for classes in the University of Toronto’s Computer Science department to teach ethical concepts to computer scientists in ways that apply to their work. He has also acted as a judge for the Ontario Ethics Bowl - a competition among high schools throughout the province of Ontario to make and defend arguments about important ethical issues.
Eric holds a law degree from the University of Toronto, as well as a Masters of Arts and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto.
Center Affiliation: Center for Law and Philosophy
Research Project: The Democratic Legitimacy & Political Meaning of Juries
Jorge Urdánoz
Global Research Fellow
Spain
ju2102@nyu.edu
Jorge Urdánoz is Associate Professor of Legal Philosophy at Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain. He holds a degree in Philosophy and a PhD in Political Science, both from Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (2003). Jorge has been a visiting scholar in Columbia University and in New York University.
Most of his research and publications focus on political theory, electoral systems and history and theory of democracy. He has published about Quintilian and the theory of voting (Social Choice and Welfare, 2024), about equal suffrage (CEPC, 2021) and about John Stuart Mill and political representation (Political Science, 2020). In addition to his academic pursuits, Jorge served as an advisor to the vice-presidency of the Spanish government in 2010 and is a regular contributor to the Spanish press. He is author of several books and academic articles in Spanish. Currently he is working on a second PhD about the Majority Principle in Pompeu Fabra University.
Center Affiliation: Center for Law and Philosophy
Research Project: On the different meanings of the Majority Principle
Masanori Wakita
Global Research Fellow
Japan
mw5835@nyu.edu
Masanori Wakita is Associate Professor at Graduate School of Law, Tohoku University. He earned his LLB and JD from the University of Tokyo. His area of research is corporate law, and recently his focus is on tender offer regulations. He has written articles recommending the revision of Japanese tender offer regulations, which include "Injunction against TOB" (in Japanese) and "The Regulation of Acquisition of Shares from Multiple Shareholders Outside Markets" (in Japanese).
He has served as Research Associate and Project Lecturer at the University of Tokyo, Associate Professor at Kanazawa University, and Visiting Scholar and Visiting Researcher at National University of Singapore. He is interested in comparative study of law and wrote an outline of Singaporean corporate law in the Japanese book: INTRODUCTION TO SINGAPORE BUSINESS LAW (2022).
As Global Research Fellow at the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law, he will work on an article on the tender offer regulations and shareholder activism from the perspective of a comparative study regarding the US, Japan, and notable European jurisdictions. US tender offer regulation is in sharp contrast to the counterparts in Europe. However, Japan incorporates both, and as such shows a unique and complicated regulation in this area, which he plans to explore.
Center Affiliation: Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance
Research Project: A theoretical analysis on the adoption of US and European regulations in the field of stock tender offers