Visiting scholars range from senior faculty at the world’s leading research institutions to doctoral students beginning their scholarly careers. Their research and scholarship touch on a multitude of legal disciplines, including comparative and international criminal law, human rights, legal philosophy, commercial and corporate law, constitutional law, and international private and public law.
All visiting scholars participate in the weekly Visiting Scholar Forum series, where they present their work in progress to peers from around the world.
With permission from the instructor, visiting scholars can audit up to two Columbia classes each semester. They have access to Columbia Law School’s Arthur W. Diamond Law Library and many of its digital databases and free printing facilities, as well as a dedicated off-site, 24-hour workspace equipped with wireless access and other amenities.
Note: The term Visiting Scholar is a courtesy designation that does not signify a formal association or academic appointment with the University. Individuals named to these titles may not claim a university affiliation for the purpose of applying for grants or contracts and should not represent themselves in their publications, or otherwise, as having a university affiliation.
Applications
The program holds three intake periods per year, each with rolling admission:
- Fall Intake (April 1 application deadline)
- Spring Intake (September 1 application deadline)
- Summer (March 1 application deadline)
All prospective Visiting Scholars, regardless of country of residence or any existing affiliation, must submit an application form and the supporting materials. The online application for each of these three cycles will be made available at least two months prior to the deadline for each cycle.
The supporting materials (preferable in PDF format) are:
- Curriculum Vitae (C.V.)
- One-page research proposal
- List of Publications
- Two (2) Letters of Recommendation
The Office of International Programs will generally not review applications, regardless of when submitted, until shortly after the deadline associated with each respective intake period. A response will take approximately eight weeks. Under extraordinary circumstances, such as to meet the deadline of a prospective funding source, you may submit a form to request early and/or expedited consideration.
2019–2020 Visiting Scholars
Waleed Noman Alhariri
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
Area of Research: Yemeni women’s rights in Yemen peace processes
Clara Mota Pimenta Alves
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Brazil
Area of Research: A developmental approach on economic analysis of litigation
Abdullah Arslan
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Turkey
Area of Research: Insider trading under Turkish capital market law
Leander Johann Beinlich
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Germany
Area of Research: Tertiary rights in international law; an individual rights perspective on the enforcement of international law within domestic legal systems
Jane Bolander
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Denmark
Area of Research: The legal fight against tax evasion/abuse
Thomas Alan Kieran Brooks
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: U.S.A./U.K.
Area of Research: The unified theory of punishment
Juan Francisco Carrio
Email:
Country of Origin: Argentina
Area of Research: Criminal adjudication in the United States. Proposals to improve Argentina’s criminal adjudication system and practices.
Ah Young Cho
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Republic Of Korea
Area of Research: Rethinking impacts of climate change on marine biodiversity (fisheries and aquaculture)
Hyeok Choi
Email:
Country of Origin: Republic Of Korea
Area of Research: Management system of/regulation and restriction imposed on weapon brokers of the United States
Jiyun Choi
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Republic Of Korea
Area of Research: Study on enforcement of Korean court decisions in the U.S.
Barbara Ciaramella
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Italy
Area of Research: Arbitration, fundamental rights, and international business practice
Guilherme Correa De Araujo
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Brazil
Area of Research: Pretrial decisions: intuition and science to assess offender's risk
Rebecca Dibennardo
Email:
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
Area of Research: Policing sex: vice laws and sexual regulation in the 20th century (working title)
Thomas Dollmaier
Email:
Country of Origin: Germany
Area of Research: The political economy of rulemaking at multilateral development banks
Jingbo Dong
Email:
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: Legal protection of user's data interests in the era of big data
Fabio Gomes Dos Santos
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Brazil
Area of Research: Public funding for innovation as an administrative acitivity
George Dvaladze
Email:
Country of Origin: Georgia
Area of Research: Equality and non-discrimination: interplay between international humanitarian law and human rights
Franz Christian Ebert
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Germany
Area of Research: Labour governance by international economic institutions
Ulick Egan
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Ireland
Area of Research: The evolution of international criminal investigations and the role of technology
Huayao Fan
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: Study on the categorization of the civil litigation filing procedure
Wang Ling Fang
Email:
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: Environment of doing business and bankruptcy law
Victor Oliveira Fernandes
Email:
Country of Origin: Brazil
Area of Research: Big-tech firms monopolization practices and competition law in developing countries: how antitrust can foster innovation in digital markets
Yahya Berkol Gülgeç
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Republic Of Turkey
Area of Research: Reconciliation of reason-based theories of normativity with legal positivism
Andre Ribeiro Giamberardino
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Brazil
Area of Research: War and state punishment: common theoretical foundations and political practices of resistance
Eldar Adigezal Gojayev
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: The Republic Of Azerbaijan
Area of Research: The legal ways of fighting monopolism: the situation in Azerbaijan and advanced (U.S.A. and EU) practices
Tal Havkin
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Israel
Area of Research: Civil procedure, torts, corporations
Amr Mourad Hedar
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Egypt
Area of Research: Draft model regional agreement for the promotion and protection of investment
Seong Kyu Heo
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Republic Of Korea
Area of Research: How us law enforcement agencies carry out narcotic investigations and the efforts made to eradicate narcotic crimes?
Yunbo Huang
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: On the negative collateral effects of conviction under the background of crime stratification
Jungah Kim
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Republic of Korea
Area of Research: Politics of representing gendered violence in postcolonial east Asian diaspora
Anne Katharina Friederike Kling
Email:
Country of Origin: Germany
Area of Research: Cities and municipalities as actors in climate change litigation
Patryk Bogdan Kulig
Email:
Country of Origin: Poland
Area of Research: Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS)
Teo Kvirikashvili
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Georgia
Area of Research: The role of states and arbitration tribunals in the interpretation of investment treaties
Hiu Fai Kwok
Email:
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Area of Research: A theory of consumer contract law
Simin Li
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: The enforcement of international investment award
Xin Li
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: Trial reform path of family disputes in ethnic minority areas of southwest China
Anna Elizabeth Macdonald
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Area of Research: Those who carry out human rights analysis and reporting have been seduced by legal frameworks and largely ignore imbalances of power that lead to rights violations.
Xu Mei
Email:
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: Contract interpretation theory in common law
Ye Meng
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: Steering judicial reform: China's on-going strive for judicial autonomy and accountability under party authority
Cornelius N Nagbe
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Liberia
Area of Research: Assessing the threats to humanitarian and peacekeeping operations in South Sudan: a case-study application of the united nations' framework of analysis for atrocity crimes
Hideharu Nakamura
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Japan
Area of Research: Application of information technology (IT) and artificial intelligence (AI) to legal procedure and its effect
Jean François Neven
Email:
Country of Origin: Belgium
Area of Research: The European social charter and the most vulnerable people: an experimentalist approach
Yongfeng Pan
Email:
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: Investor protection from the view of the company law and the bankruptcy law
Dario Panza
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Italy
Area of Research: Law, economics, and finance of shareholders’ activism
Gustavo Fontana Pedrollo
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Brazil
Area of Research: Presidential control over independent regulatory agencies in brazil and the united states in the face of legal advice and litigation authority
Cacia Campos Pimentel
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Brazil
Area of Research: New renewable energies technologies: improving legal statutes and policies to boost innovation and competitiveness
Victor Marcel Pinheiro
Email:
Country of Origin: Brazil
Area of Research: Institutional design of the legislative process
Lazar Radic
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Spain
Area of Research: Rethinking the metaphysics of competition regulation: a critical perspective on the politics of antitrust law. The case of neoliberalism
Julia Lavigne Ribeiro
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Brazil
Area of Research: Leniency agreements and regulatory coordination between anti-corruption government authorities in brazil
Darren Rosenblum
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
Area of Research: Unsex the firm
Borja Sanchez Barroso
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Spain
Area of Research: Administrative and constitutional guarantees applicable to the precautionary principle in the field of robotics and ai
Andrea Jane Shaw
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Australia
Area of Research: Improving mining governance in politically harsh settings
Hongyu Shen
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: Jurisdictional coordination, judgment circulation, and international comity—a comparative study of u.s. And china
Jaeyoon Song
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Republic Of Korea
Area of Research: A study of the legal system for animal protection in the united states.
Nicola Claire Strain
Email:
Country of Origin: Australia
Area of Research: Jurisdiction and applicable law in international trade and investment disputes in relation to other public international law norms
Xiaoran Tang
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: The legal coordination mechanisms of u.s. Bay areas and enlightenments to china GBA
Wang Tao
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: The history of the inns of court and its influence on the legal training and legal profession in early America
Charlotte Desirã©E Dominique Thomas Hã©Bert
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: France
Area of Research: Civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action in the united states since 2001
Pelin Turan
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Republic Of Turkey
Area of Research: Gazing at intellectual property law through the lens of critical race theory: the subordination of racial minorities and indigenous peoples via copyright and trademark laws
Young Shin Um
Email:
Country of Origin: Republic Of Korea
Area of Research: The role and significance of adverse inferences in investor-state arbitration
Theodora Valkanou
Email:
Country of Origin: Greece
Area of Research: The role of international law in safeguarding global food security
Thorsten Jens Velten
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Germany
Area of Research: Screening foreign direct investment in the EU: how much flexibility do European primary law and public international law leave to the EU and its member states?
Jian Wang
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: The U.S.A., the UK, and the EU otc derivative market regulatory reform—a valuable experience for further opening up of the Chinese otc derivative market
Chen Wang
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: The impact of the Chinese financial cycle on short-term and long-term economic cycles
Wanhua Wang
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: Research on the rulemaking procedure of America
Yukun Wang
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: Research on regulation of criminal procedure rotation
Xiahong Shao
Email:
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: How to solve the difficulty in launching the bankruptcy procedure—a study on the transfer of bankruptcy of cases
Wang Xiang
Email:
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: Trial participation of lay assessors in china
Kai Yang
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: A comparative study on the case generation mechanism and the construction of case law discourse system between the united states and china
Lei Yu
Email:
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: Foucault's biopolitics and critical theory
Zixuan Yuan
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: The research on corporate dissolution and liquidation of china's legal system
Pouya Zangeneh
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: Canada
Area of Research: An overall ontology graph for extractive natural resources datasets
Xin Zhang
Email:
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: Social media, public participation and pressure-induced legislation in china
Zebin Zhang
Email:
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: Proposal for studying u.s. Bankruptcy judicial system
Lei Zheng
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: Seeking a new balance and coordination between litigation and arbitration: a comparative study of the latest development of judicial review of arbitration in international commercial and investment ADR
Mengxue Zuo
Email: [email protected]
Country of Origin: China
Area of Research: International investment facilitation