2024-2025 Academic Year
Hyojung (Claire) Bae
Postdoctoral Global Fellow
Republic of Korea
hb3002@nyu.edu
Claire Bae has recently joined NYU Law as a Postdoctoral 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 ...see full bio.
Center Affiliation: Graduate Tax Program
Research Project: A Comparative Study of Tax Regulations on Digital Assets
Nour Benghellab-Outtas
Postdoctoral Global Fellow
nb4104@nyu.edu
Nour is a Postdoctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ). She completed a PhD dissertation in Law, Political Studies, and Philosophy at the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris (École des hautes études en sciences sociales). Her dissertation focuses on the aesthetics ...see full bio.
Center Affiliation: Institute for International Law and Justice
Research Project: Genealogy of National-Socialist Colonial Legal Concepts
Sam Bookman (Fall)
Postdoctoral 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 ...see full bio.
Center Affiliation: Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law
Research Project: What Happens When You Win? The Implementation of Structural Climate Litigation
Stefania Cirillo (Fall)
Postdoctoral Global Fellow
Italy
sc11602@nyu.edu
Stefania Cirillo is a Postdoctoral 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 ...see full bio.
Center Affiliation: Center on Civil Justice
Research Project: The Role of Ideologies in Comparative Studies of Civil Procedure Law
Bruno Dantas (Spring)
Senior Global Fellow from Practice & Government
Brazil
bd2700@nyu.edu
Dr. Bruno Dantas is a Senior Global Fellow from Practice & Government associated with the Center on Civil Justice at NYU. He holds a PhD in Law and an LLM from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. His scholarly focus lies in Transnational Class Actions and Comparative Legal Mechanisms for Access to Justice in Complex Litigation Systems. Utilizing a ...see full bio.
Center Affiliation: Center on Civil Justice
Research Project: Transnational Class Actions: A Comparative Study of Legal Mechanisms for Access to Justice in Complex Litigation Systems
Marco Dell'Erba
Global Research Fellow
mde285@nyu.edu
Marco Dell’Erba is Professor of Corporate & Financial Law at the University of Zurich, where he is also a member of the Blockchain Center and the Digital Society Initiative. He is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance at New York University School of Law, a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Program of ...see full bio.
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, 2024) challenges...see full bio.
Center Affiliation: Center for Law and Philosophy
Research Project: A Liberal Perspective of Constitutionalism
D. Tinashé Hofisi
Postdoctoral Global Fellow
Zimbabwe
dth6583@nyu.edu
D. Tinashé Hofisi is a Hauser Postdoctoral 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. ...see full bio.
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
Postdoctoral Global Fellow
Israel
aj4566@nyu.edu
Alon is a Postdoctoral Global Fellow affiliated with the Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ). Alon is interested in the role of infrastructure as a legal term and the history of regulation. At NYU, Alon will investigate the EU’s efforts to extend its regulatory reach beyond its borders, particularly in digitalization and global value chains (GVCs). By examining ...see full bio.
Center Affiliation: Institute for International Law and Justice
Research Project: Fostering Flows: The Role of Infrastructure in Legal Reasoning
Henry Krahn
Postdoctoral Global Fellow
Canada
hfk8861@nyu.edu
Henry Krahn is a Postdoctoral 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...see full bio.
Center Affiliation: Center for Law and Philosophy
Research Project: Reimagining Reasons: Protest and Deep Moral Change
Darina Petrova
Postdoctoral Global Fellow
Finland
dp4119@nyu.edu
Darina Petrova is a Postdoctoral 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 ...see full bio.
Center Affiliation: Institute for International Law and Justice
Research Project: The Making of Alternative Global Governance: BRICS project and its Implications for International Law
Poonam Puri (Fall)
Senior Global Research Fellow
Canada
pp3138@nyu.edu
Poonam Puri is the Tier I York Research Chair in Corporate Governance and a Full Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. She is also Head of the Capital Markets Initiative at the David and Sharon Johnston Centre for Corporate Governance Innovation at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. She is also Head of the Capital ...see full bio.
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 (Fall)
Postdoctoral Global Fellow
Canada
eas891@nyu.edu
Eric Shoemaker is a Postdoctoral 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. ...see full bio.
Center Affiliation: Center for Law and Philosophy
Research Project: The Democratic Legitimacy & Political Meaning of Juries
Jorge Urdánoz (Fall)
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 ...see full bio.
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 ...see full bio.
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