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Overview

Terence C. Halliday is affiliated with the American Bar Foundation in the United States. The research work spans social sciences with a strong focus on law, sociology, political science, and economics. Their published output includes 33 works primarily dealing with legal education and practice innovations, judicial and constitutional studies, international law and human rights, crime and governance, as well as regulation and compliance studies.

The subfields of study covered in their research are:

  • Law
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Strategy and Management
  • Economics and Econometrics

Key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Legal Education and Practice Innovations
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • International Law and Human Rights
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Human Rights and Development
  • Regulation and Compliance Studies
  • Religion, Society, and Development

Recent research publications of Terence C. Halliday include:

  • Global Surveillance of Dirty Money: Assessing Assessments of Regimes to Control Money-Laundering and Combat the Financing of Terrorism, 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Anti-Money Laundering: An Inquiry into a Disciplinary Transnational Legal Order, 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Protecting Basic Legal Freedoms: International Legal Complexes, Accountability Devices, and the Deviant Case of China, 2021, Annual Review of Law and Social Science
  • Judges Under Stress: Legal Complexes and a Sociology of Hope, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Dignity Discourses in Struggles for Basic Legal Freedoms in China, 2021, Asian Journal of Law and Society

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Bruce G. Carruthers
  • Gregory Shaffer
  • Ely Aaronson
  • Peter Reuter
  • Shira Zilberstein

Terence C. Halliday has contributed books published by Stanford University Press eBooks and Cambridge University Press. Titles include:

  • Bankrupt, 2020, cited 95 times
  • Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Justice, 2020, cited 47 times

The majority of publications are featured in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Journal of Public Theology
  • Annual Review of Law and Social Science
  • Asian Journal of Law and Society
  • Oñati Socio-legal Series

Best Publications

  • The Sociology of the Professions: Lawyers, Doctors and Others

    Robert Dingwall;Philip Simon Coleman Lewis

  • Beyond Monopoly: Lawyers, State Crises, and Professional Empowerment

    Terence C. Halliday

  • The recursivity of law : Global norm making and national lawmaking in the globalization of corporate insolvency regimes

    Terence C. Halliday;Bruce G. Carruthers

  • Globalization of law

    Terence C. Halliday;Pavel Osinsky

  • Rescuing Business: The Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Law in England and the United States

    Bruce G. Carruthers;Terence C. Halliday

  • Minimalist Organizations: Vital Events in State Bar Associations, 1870-1930

    Terence C. Halliday;Michael J. Powell;Mark W. Granfors

  • Transnational Legal Orders

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  • Transnational Legal Orders

    Terence C. Halliday;Gregory C. Shaffer

  • Knowledge Mandates: Collective Influence by Scientific, Normative and Syncretic Professions

    Terence C. Halliday

  • Negotiating Globalization: Global Scripts and Intermediation in the Construction of Asian Insolvency Regimes

    Bruce G. Carruthers;Terence C. Halliday

  • Recursivity of Global Normmaking: A Sociolegal Agenda

    Terence C. Halliday

  • Rhetorical legitimation: global scripts as strategic devices of international organizations †

    Terence C. Halliday;Terence C. Halliday;Susan Block-Lieb;Bruce Greenhow Carruthers

  • Political Liberalism and Political Embeddedness: Understanding Politics in the Work of Chinese Criminal Defense Lawyers

    Sida Liu;Terence C. Halliday

  • Global Lawmakers

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  • Recursivity in Legal Change: Lawyers and Reforms of China's Criminal Procedure Law

    Sida Liu;Terence C. Halliday

  • After Minimalism: Transformations of State Bar Associations from Market Dependence to State Reliance, 1918 to 1950

    Terence C. Halliday;Michael J. Powell;Mark W. Granfors

  • Lawyers and the rise of western political liberalism : Europe and North America from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries

    Kermit L. Hall;Terence C. Halliday;Lucien Karpik

  • Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work

    Sida Liu;Terence C. Halliday

  • Global surveillance of dirty money: assessing assessments of regimes to control money-laundering and combat the financing of terrorism

    Michael Levi;Terence Halliday;Peter Reuter

  • The Legal Complex

    Lucien Karpik;Terence C. Halliday

  • 5. Institutionalizing Markets, or the Market for Institutions? Central Banks, Bankruptcy Law, and the Globalization of Financial Markets

    Bruce G. Carruthers;Sarah L. Bahby;Terence C. Halliday

  • Sociology and its publics : the forms and fates of disciplinary organization

    Terence C. Halliday;Morris Janowitz

  • Fates of Political Liberalism in the British Post-Colony: The Politics Of The Legal Complex

    Terence C. Halliday;Lucien Karpik;Malcolm M. Feeley

  • Can the AML system be evaluated without better data

    Michael Levi;Peter Reuter;Terence Halliday

  • With, Within, and Beyond the State: The Promise and Limits of Transnational Legal Ordering

    Gregory C. Shaffer;Terence C Halliday

  • Global Lawmakers: International Organizations in the Crafting of World Markets

    Susan Block-Lieb;Terence C. Halliday

  • Lawyers and the Rise of Western Political Liberalism: Europe and North America from the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries

    Malcolm M. Feeley;Terence C. Halliday;Lucien Karpik

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce G. Carruthers
Bruce G. Carruthers Northwestern University
Gregory Shaffer
Gregory Shaffer Georgetown University
Michael Levi
Michael Levi Cardiff University
Peter Reuter
Peter Reuter University of Maryland, College Park
Tom Ginsburg
Tom Ginsburg University of Chicago
Malcolm M Feeley
Malcolm M Feeley University of California, Berkeley
Robert L. Nelson
Robert L. Nelson Northwestern University
Sally Engle Merry
Sally Engle Merry New York University
Glenn Morgan
Glenn Morgan University of Bristol
Andrew Abbott
Andrew Abbott University of Chicago

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