Tai-Heng Cheng

Associate Professor of Law
Associate Director, Center for International Law

Tai-Heng Cheng is associate professor of law and associate director of the Center for International Law at New York Law School. He is an expert in international law and arbitration.

His book, State Succession and Commercial Obligations, received acclaim in law reviews and has been relied on and cited as authoritative by U.S. federal courts. His next book, International Law as Commitment, is forthcoming in 2010 with Oxford University Press.

Professor Cheng has served as arbitrator and counsel in disputes under ICC, UNCITRAL, JAMS and CIETAC rules, as well as multi-jurisdiction proceedings in the United States and abroad. He is a member of the panels of neutrals of the AAA/ICDR, CPR and HKIAC.

He has also advised the government of Kosovo, the Singapore Police Force and the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor.

Professor Cheng has been a visiting faculty member at the City University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and Sarah Lawrence College, and will visit Vanderbilt Law School in Spring 2010.

He is Honorary Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association. He is a member of the American Law Institute, the Institute for Transnational Arbitration Academic Council, and the New York City Bar Association International Commercial Disputes Resolution Committee. From 2008-2009, he served on the Awards Committee of the American Society of International Law.

Professor Cheng holds a Doctor of the Science of Law degree and a Master of Laws degree from Yale Law School, where he was Howard M. Holtzman Fellow for International Law. He also holds a Master of Arts degree and a law degree with first class honors from Oxford University, where he was Oxford University Scholar.