Professional Affiliation

Russell D. Niles Professor of Law and Associated Professor of History, New York University

Expert Bio

Daniel Hulsebosch is the Russell D. Niles Professor of Law and Associated Professor of History at New York University. He is a legal and constitutional historian whose scholarship ranges from the early modern British Empire to the nineteenth-century United States and explores the relationships between migration, transnational sources of law, and the development of legal institutions. His first book, Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830 (2005), examined the intersection of constitutionalism and imperial expansion in North America and received the Littleton-Griswold Prize from the American Historical Association and the John Phillip Reid Book Award from the American Society for Legal History. Professor Hulsebosch directs the Samuel I. Golieb Fellowship Program at NYU Law School, is a co-editor of the Legal History Series at Oxford University Press, and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Legal History.