Vanderbilt University Law School

Tai-Heng Cheng

Visiting Associate Professor

Voice: 212-431-2834
Email: tcheng@nyls.edu
Office: Room 295 (Spring 2009)
Personal Website

Area(s) of Expertise

International commercial transactions, international arbitration

Education

J.S.D. (Howard M. Holtzman Fellow for International Law), LL.M. Yale Law School
M.A., B.A. Law (First Class Honors, Oxford University Scholar) Oxford University

Biography

Tai-Heng Cheng will visit Vanderbilt Law School in spring 2010. He is associate professor of law and associate director of the Center for International Law at New York Law School, having joined its faculty in 2006. 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.

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