A native New Zealander (and now American citizen), Terry Halliday has undergraduate and graduate degrees from Massey University, New Zealand, an M.A. from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. He has held regular and visiting appointments at the Australian National University, the University of Chicago, and Oxford University, and is currently a senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation, an inter-disciplinary research institute, and an adjunct professor of sociology at Northwestern University.

He has published many books and articles in the U.S., Australia, and Europe on law and the professions, lawyers, legal change, the institutional construction of markets, political liberalism, and the politics of law-making. His most recent books are Rescuing Business (Oxford University Press, 1999) on the politics of corporate law-making, and an edited volume, Lawyers and the Rise of Western Political Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 1998). His current research focuses on the impact of international financial institutions, like the World Bank and IMF, on institution-building in transitional societies, such as China, Indonesia and South Korea.

Terry is a founder and a former chair of the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association. He has served as a consultant to the government of China and the World Bank on the restructuring of the Chinese economy, and the Lilly Foundation on Christian publishing in America. He has been the editor of the inter-disciplinary journal, Law and Social Inquiry, published by the University of Chicago Press, and a monograph series published in Europe, among others. Terry was also a co-founder and president of the National Institute for Social Science Information (NISSI), a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the best social science content and practice to bear on the most critical problems faced by society, such as poverty, crime, education, and children. He currently is the president of Qontent Corporation, an online company that accelerates learning through the development of a new knowledge product, Smart Libraries.

A Bible teacher by avocation, Terry enjoys biblical exposition and the challenge to integrate scholarly disciplines and business experiences with Christian thought and biblical precepts. He is active at the First Presbyterian Church, Evanston, Illinois. (More at his ABF site.)