Trang (Mae) Nguyen is Associate Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law and an Affiliated Scholar at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, New York University School of Law. She is also a Stephen M. Kellen Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (2023–2028). Prior to joining Temple, she served as the inaugural John N. Hazard Fellow in Comparative and International Law at NYU Law and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law and Society.
Professor Nguyen’s research and teaching expertise are in the areas of business law, contracts, transnational law, and international law. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Southern California Law Review, the Harvard International Law Journal, the American Journal of International Law Unbound, the Stanford Law and Policy Review, the Harvard Human Rights Journal, and the New York University Law Review, among others. She has served as invited researcher at numerous institutions around the world, including the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, the National University of Singapore Centre for Asian Legal Studies, and the Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law.
Prior to entering academia, Professor Nguyen clerked on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and practiced corporate law in Silicon Valley. She earned a J.D. degree from NYU School of Law, where she was a Jacobson Law and Business Scholar and an executive editor of the NYU Law Review.