The Hauser Global Law School Program will welcome a number of leading law professors from around the world as Global Faculty for the 2024-2025 academic year. They specialize in diverse fields of law, not just international law, and are renowned scholars in their countries and areas of interest. Their courses provide an opportunity for NYU Law students to learn from and interact with these eminent scholars and to gain a new perspective on important legal issues. Below please find excerpts from their biographies and links to their course descriptions.
All Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 courses can be found on the Global Faculty bios page. If you have any questions, please contact law.global@nyu.edu.
Spring 2025
Susy Frankel
Courses:
Susy Frankel, FRSNZ, Professor of Law, holds the Chair in Intellectual Property and International Trade and is Founding Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law, at Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka. Professor Frankel was President the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) from 2015-2017. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of World Intellectual Property, Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property and the Intellectual Property Quarterly. She teaches copyright, trademarks, patents, international intellectual property and international trade law. Her scholarship focuses on international intellectual property and its nexus with international trade, particularly treaty interpretation and the protection of indigenous peoples’ knowledge and innovation. From 2008-2019 she was Chair of New Zealand’s Copyright Tribunal. In 2018 Susy was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and in 2019 was appointed a member of the Waitangi Tribunal, which hears claim brought to address breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Hualing Fu
Courses:
Fu Hualing is the Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities and the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He holds an LLB from Southwestern University of Politics and Law in China, an MA from the University of Toronto, and a doctoral degree from Osgoode Hall Law School. His research focuses on rule of law reform, constitutional development, and human rights, with a particular emphasis on China. He is a China Law Editor of the Hong Kong Law Journal, an Editorial Board member of The China Quarterly, and Co-editor of the Routledge Rule of Law in China and Comparative Perspectives Series. His most recent publication is Regime Type and Beyond: Police Transformation in Asia, co-edited with Dr. Weitseng Chen, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.
Martti Koskenniemi
Course:
Martti Koskenniemi is Professor Emeritus of International law at the University of Helsinki. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has worked as diplomat with the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and was a member of the International Law Commission (UN) in 2002-2006. He has held several visiting professorships across the world. He has received honorary doctorates from the universities of Uppsala, McGill, Frankfurt, Tartu, Brussels (VUB) and the European University Institute (EUI, Florence). His main publications include From Apology to Utopia; The Structure of International Legal Argument (1989/2005), The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960 (2001) and To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and International Power 1300-1870 (2021). His most recent publication is a joint work with Professor David Kennedy (Harvard), Of Law and the World. Critical Conversations on Power, History and Political Economy (2023).
René Matteotti
Courses:
René Matteotti, Professor of Law, holds the Chair in Swiss, European, and International Tax Law at the University of Zurich. He gained his MA in History (summa cum laude) from the University of Basel, his MLaw and PhD (summa cum laude) from the University of Bern, and an LLM in Tax (with honors) from Northwestern University. He has been admitted to the bar of the Canton of Zurich. For his academic achievements René has been received various awards, including the Faculty of Law and Economics prize from the University of Bern for the best Master of Law of the class of 1997 and the Professor Walther Hug Prize for his doctoral thesis in 2003. In 2007, he completed his habilitation, i.e. his professorial thesis, with a monography on the relevance of Substance-over-Form in Swiss and US tax law, supported by a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation for research at Northwestern University.
Yuko Nishitani
Courses:
- Transnational Private Law and Global Challenges Seminar
- Conflict of Laws in Global Perspectives Seminar
Yuko Nishitani is Professor of International Private and Business Law at Kyoto University in Japan and Vice-President of the Hague Academy of International Law. She holds a PhD from the University of Heidelberg and was awarded the Philippe Franz von Siebold Prize in 2020. She has held visiting appointments at NYU and Duke University, among others, and represented the Japanese government at the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH). Nishitani is fluent in Japanese, English, German, and French. Her areas of interest include private international law (or conflict of laws), comparative law, and family law, with a special focus on global legal pluralism, extraterritoriality, corporate due diligence, SDGs, cultural identity, and colonialism. She authored Mancini und die Parteiautonomie im Internationalen Privatrecht (2000) and Identité culturelle en droit international privé de la famille (Recueil des cours, Vol. 401 (2019)), co-authored Japanese Private International Law (2021), and edited Treatment of Foreign Law: Dynamics towards Convergence? (2017).