Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Email: magrast@americanprogress.org
Website: http://www.americanprogress.org/experts/AgrastMark.html
Mark Agrast is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he focuses on the Constitution, separation of powers, terrorism and civil liberties, and the rule of law. Prior to joining the Center for American Progress, Agrast was Counsel and Legislative Director to Congressman William D. Delahunt of Massachusetts from 1997 to 2003. He previously served as a top aide to Massachusetts Congressman Gerry E. Studds from 1992 to 1997 and practiced international law with the Washington office of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue from 1985 to 1991. During his years on Capitol Hill, Agrast played a prominent role in shaping laws on civil and constitutional rights, terrorism and civil liberties, immigration, criminal justice, antitrust, and other matters within the jurisdiction of the House Committee on the Judiciary. He was also responsible for legal issues within the jurisdiction of the House International Relations Committee (now the Committee on Foreign Affairs), including the implementation of international agreements on human rights, inter-country adoption, and the protection of intellectual property rights.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, he received his B.A. summa cum laude from Case Western Reserve University in 1978, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar from 1978 to 1981, and received his J.D. in 1985 from Yale Law School. He is a member of the Supreme Court Bar and is admitted to practice in Ohio and the District of Columbia.
Agrast has been a leader in a number of professional and civic organizations, including the American Bar Association, where he is currently chair of the ABA Commission on Immigration, a member of the Commission on the World Justice Project, and a member of the House of Delegates. He is a past member of the ABA Board of Governors and its executive committee, and a past chair of the Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities. He serves on the council of the ABA Fund for Justice and Education and has been a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation since 2001.
Professor of Law and Political Science
Director, Program in Asian Law, Politics and Society
Director, Comparative Constitutions Project
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue
Champaign IL 61820
Phone: (217) 244-7614
Email: tginsbur@law.uiuc.edu
Tom Ginsburg is Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, currently visiting at the University of Chicago Law School. He holds B.A., J.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
Ginsburg's books include the forthcoming Rule By Law: The Politics of Courts in Authoritarian Regimes (with Tamir Moustafa), Institutions and Public Law: Comparative Approaches (with Robert Kagan, 2005), Legal Reform in Korea (2004), and Judicial Review in New Democracies (2003), which won the American Political Science Association’s C. Herman Pritchett Award for best book on law and courts. He currently co-directs the Comparative Constitutions Project at Illinois, and is working on a book on constitutional endurance. Prior to entering academia, he worked for The Asia Foundation, consulted on law and democratic governance programs, and served as a legal advisor at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal in The Hague.
Antara Haldar is a doctoral student of Law at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, where she holds a full graduate studentship, and a Research Fellow at Columbia University. Following a B.A. in Economics at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi (2004), she won the prestigious Nehru scholarship to do a degree in Law at Trinity College, Cambridge (2006). She is the recipient of several Cambridge prizes like the Christoper Simons Award for International law and the Lizette Bentwich Prize for scholastic achievement. She has also been elected as a Life Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust.
She has worked on numerous development projects and in legal aid agencies in India, South Africa and Canada including at the Delhi School of Economics, the Legal Resources Centre in Durban, Navdanya in Delhi, the Canadian Environmental Law Association in Toronto and the University of Toronto.
Her research interests extend to law and development, legal theory, women and the law and international law. Her research on the ‘Capabilities Approach’ and the Law was recently presented at the annual conference of the Human Development and Capabilities Association. Her current research on law and development explores the relationship between formal and informal law.
Co-Director, Center on Law and Globalization, American Bar Foundation and University of Illinois College of Law; Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation.
Telephone: 312-988-6593
Email: halliday@abfn.org
Mailing address: American Bar Foundation, 750 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago Illinois 60611.
Terence C. Halliday is Co-Director, Center on Law and Globalization, American Bar Foundation and University of Illinois College of Law; Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation; and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University. A native New Zealander, he was educated at Massey University, New Zealand, the University of Toronto and the University of Chicago. He has taught and visited at the University of Chicago, Oxford University, and the Australian National University.
A specialist in law-making and institution-building, Halliday directs two research programs on law and globalization. With Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University, he has recently completed a book, Law’s Global Markets, on global norm-making and national law-making on corporate bankruptcy. Funded by the American Bar Foundation and National Science Foundation, the book develops a theory of legal change in a global context that is based on three sets of data: a cross-national, time-series analysis of bankruptcy reforms, worldwide, from 1978 to 1998; extensive interviewing and participant observation of international institutions involved in the creation of global norms for corporate bankruptcy; and case studies of bankruptcy law-making in China, Indonesia and Korea since the Asian Financial Crisis.
A second program of research develops empirically-grounded historical and comparative research on the legal complex and political liberalism. Halliday is Co-Principal Investigator with Professor Lucien Karpik (Ecoles des Mines and EHESS, Paris) and Professor Malcolm Feeley (University of California, Berkeley) on a National Science Foundation-funded international research collaboration of scholars who study the mobilization of legal occupations (the “legal complex”) in the rise and fall of political liberalism, including basic legal freedoms. The research collaboration has produced Lawyers and the Rise of Western Political Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 1998) and Fighting for Political Freedom (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2007). Two new projects are underway: one on the legal complex and struggles for political liberalism in former British colonies that obtained independence after World War II in Africa, South and South East Asia; and another on contemporaneous retreats from political liberalism in societies where it has long been established.