Category: Global Business

Tai-Heng Cheng, Co-Director of the Institute for Global Law, Justice, & Policy at the New York Law School

“When International Law Works: Realistic Idealism After 9/11 and the Global Recession”

Tai-Heng Cheng, Professor at New York Law School and Senior Legal Advisor at Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney LLP, offers “real world” guidance on how to face new global problems in his most recent book, When International Law Works: Realistic Idealism After 9/11 and the Global Recession. He also serves as Co-Director of the Institute for Global Law, Justice, & Policy as well as Co-Director of the New York City International Economic Law Working Group.

Professor Cheng is an elected member of the American Law Institute, and serves on the Executive Council of American Society of International Law, as well as the Executive Committee and Academic Council of the Institute for transnational Arbitration. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a founding member of the Arbitration Club of New York. He has advised the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor and the Republic of Kosovo on comparative and international law issues, including investment treaties. He was a visiting professor at Vanderbilt Law School and the City University of Hong Kong School of Law, in 2010 and 2008, respectively. Cheng holds Doctor of the Science of Law and Master of Laws degrees from Yale Law School, where he was Howard M. Holtzmann Fellow for International Law.