Tai-Heng Cheng is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Global Law, Justice, & Policy at
New York Law School, and has been a visiting professor at Vanderbilt Law School.
An author of over forty books, articles and essays, Professor Cheng's research has been published in the University of Illinois Law Review, Temple Law Review, and the Michigan Journal of International Law. His scholarship has been cited and relied on as authoritative by U.S. federal circuit and district courts.
Professor Cheng is a member of the Executive Council of American Society of International Law, chairs its Awards Committee, and was co-chair of its 2011 Annual Meeting. He is also a member of the Executive Committee and Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, and a member of the American Law Institute.
Professor Cheng has served as tribunal chair, arbitrator, lead counsel and expert in ICSCID, UNCITRAL, ICDR, ICC, SCC, and JAMS arbitrations, and in U.S. and Canada court proceedings. He is a member of the panels of neutrals of the ICDR, CPR, and HKIAC. He has also advised the U.N. Transitional Administration in East Timor and the Republic of Kosovo on international and comparative law.
Professor 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. He also holds a law degree with First Class Honors from Oxford University.