Daniel Hulsebosch

Daniel Hulsebosch is the Russell D. Niles Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of History. He specializes in legal and constitutional history, focusing on early modern England and 19th-century America. His research examines constitutionalism's intersection with imperial expansion and state-building, particularly in relation to credit systems, international law, and property rights.

Education: PhD (American History) from Harvard University (1999), AB (History & English Literature) from Colgate University (magna cum laude), JD from Columbia Law School.

He supervises the Legal History Colloquium and directs the Samuel I. Golieb Fellowship Program. His major works include Constituting Empire (2005) and A Civilized Nation (co-authored with David Golove, 2010). Awards include the John Phillip Reid Book Prize and Littleton-Griswold Book Prize for his first monograph.

Current projects explore early American lawyers' use of international private law and the role of constitutional infrastructure in state-building. He serves as co-editor of Oxford's Legal History Series and on the editorial board of the American Journal of Legal History.