The Hauser Global Law School Program will welcome a number of leading law professors from around the world as Global Faculty for the 2026-2027 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.
This information can also be found on the Global Faculty bios page. If you have any questions, please contact law.global@nyu.edu.
Fall 2026
Hualing Fu
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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.
Christophe Geiger
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Christophe Geiger is Professor of Law and Director of the Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory (ILEO) at Luiss Guido Carli University (Rome). Previously to his Luiss appointment, he taught at the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) of the University of Strasbourg (France), which he leaded as Director General and Director of the Research Department for 11 years. In addition, he is Spangenberg Fellow in Law & Technology at Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology & the Art, a founding member of the European Copyright Society and the EIPIN (A European Network of IP scholars), has been an affiliated senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich (Germany) from 2008 to 2022, and President of the ATRIP, the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property from 2022 to 2024.
He specializes in national, European, international and comparative intellectual property (IP) law, acted as external expert for the European Parliament and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and has drafted reports on IP for European and international institutions. He has taught in several universities as visiting professor or guest lecturer across Europe, Asia and the US and published numerous articles as well as authored and edited several volumes in the field of Innovation Law.
Ron Harris
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- Law and Development: Historical Perspectives Seminar
- The Business Corporation: Its First 400 Years Seminar
Ron Harris is a prominent legal-economic historian. He is a leading scholar of the history of the business corporation (on which he has written four books and numerous articles). He studies its history in Britain, the US, and comparatively, in the wider context of industrialization, capitalism, colonialism, and globalization. He also works on the history of other organizational forms as well as of other legal-economic institutions. His additional research interests include the methodology of legal-economic history, Israeli legal history, and the history and policy of bankruptcy and consumer credit.
He earned an LL.B., a B.A., and an M.A. in history from TAU and a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. Harris was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He was a visiting professor at the Law Schools of UC Berkeley, USC, Cornell University, École Normale Supérieure in Paris, London School of Economics (Economic History, Law), HEC Business School in Paris, NALSAR Hyderabad, the Center for Economic History at Northwestern University, and Oxford. Harris is a co-founder of the Israeli Legal History Association, past President of the Economic History Association of Israel, and Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History.
Spring 2027
Allison Christians
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Bio forthcoming.
Martti Koskenniemi
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Martti Koskenniemi is Emeritus Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki and Director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights. He was a member of the Finnish diplomatic service 1978-1994, Judge with the Administrative Tribunal of the Asian Development Bank (1997- 2002) member of the International Law Commission (UN) in 2002-2006. He has worked with several UN agencies and bodies and pleaded with the International Court of Justice. He has held lengthier visiting professorships in, among other places, NYU, Columbia University, University of Cambridge, London School of Economics, Melbourne University and Universities of Brussels, Paris, Sao Paulo and Utrecht. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has a doctorate h.c. from the Universities of Uppsala, Frankfurt and McGill. 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 The Politics of International Law (2011). His latest work on the (pre-)history of international law is To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and International Power (2021).
John Liu
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John Zhuang Liu is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on courts and judicial behavior, the economic analysis of law, and law and artificial intelligence. His work has appeared in leading journals in law and China studies, including the Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of Legal Analysis, and The China Quarterly. He is the author of Can Machine Replace Judges? Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Law (Peking University Press, 2024), the first Chinese-language book to systematically introduce the application of AI and data science in legal practice and research, and Ruling with AI: Artificial Intelligence in Judicial Practice (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2027). His research has been featured in international media such as The Economist and CNN, as well as in major Chinese media outlets.
Professor Liu holds a Bachelor of Laws and a PhD from Peking University, as well as an LLM and a JSD from the University of Chicago. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School and the University of Virginia School of Law, and is a recipient of the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the University of Hong Kong.
Michael Veale
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Michael Veale is Professor of Technology Law and Policy at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. His research focuses on how to understand and address challenges of power and justice that digital technologies and their users create and exacerbate, in areas such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, encrypted technologies and the internet. This work is regularly cited by legislators, regulators and governments. Professor Veale has consulted for a range of policy organisations including the Royal Society and British Academy, the Law Society of England and Wales, the European Commission, the ICO, the Canadian Privacy Commissioner, and the Commonwealth Secretariat. He holds and has held a range of visiting and honorary positions, including Fellow at the Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam; Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto (25-26); and Hauser Global Professor of Law at New York University (26-27). Professor Veale holds a PhD from UCL Engineering and degrees from U Maastricht and LSE.