Tai-Heng Cheng

Professor of Law
Co-Director, Institute for Global Law, Justice, & Policy

Tai-Heng Cheng is Professor of Law at New York Law School, where he has been since 2006. He is Co-Director of the Institute for Global Law, Justice, & Policy, and of the New York City International Economic Law Working Group. He was a visiting professor at Vanderbilt Law School and the City University of Hong Kong School of Law, in 2010 and 2008, respectively.

Professor Cheng has authored almost forty books, articles and essays on international law, international dispute resolution and international investment law. His next book monograph, When International Law Works: Realistic Idealism After 9/11 and the Global Recession, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. His scholarship has been cited and relied on in the American Journal of International Law, the Yale Journal of International Law and the Harvard Journal of International Law, as well as by judges and counsel in the U.S. Supreme Court and federal appeals and district courts.

He teaches International Law, International Arbitration, Investment-Treaty Arbitration, and Contracts.

Professor Cheng is an elected member of the American Law Institute, and serves on its Members Consultative Committees that assist in the preparation of the Restatement (Third) of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration, and the Principles of World Trade Organization Law. He is an elected member of the Executive Council of American Society of International Law (ASIL) and chairs its Awards Committee. He was co-chair of the 2011 ASIL Annual Meeting. He is also a member of the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) and co-chair of the 2012 ITA Annual Arbitration Workshop in Dallas, Texas. He is 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 served as arbitrator, chair, expert, amicus curiae, and counsel 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 advised the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor and the Republic of Kosovo on comparative and international law issues, including investment treaties.

Prof. 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 Bachelor of Arts in law degree with First Class Honors from Oxford University, where he was an Oxford University Scholar.