Terry Halliday

Terry Halliday is research professor, American Bar Foundation, and honorary professor, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University. With Sida Liu (University of Hong Kong), he is coauthor of Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work. He contributes to public debate on law and rights in China through international media, including the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Le Monde, and new media, including Twitter (@HallidayTerry), and China Change. He has testified before the US Congress on China’s repression of rights lawyers. A member of the Chicago International Committee, Human Rights Watch, he has a deep interest in religious, and particularly Christian, influences on lawyers’ struggles for political liberalism worldwide.