Ayelet Shachar (born June 4, 1966) is a legal scholar. She is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. She previously held the
Canada Research Chair
Canada Research Chair (CRC) is a title given to certain Canadian university research professors by the Canada Research Chairs Program.
Program goals
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in Citizenship and Multiculturalism at the University of Toronto.
Education
Shachar earned her
Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...
and LL.B at
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...
before moving to the United States and studying at
Yale Law School
Yale Law School (Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824 and has been ranked as the best law school in the United States by ''U ...
. After earning her LL.M. and J.S.D. at Yale, she was the recipient of Yale's W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow in Legal Ethics.
Career
Shachar accepted a position at the
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...
in 1999 as a Visiting Professor.
Two years later, she published her first book, "''Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women’s Rights''" through the
Cambridge University Press
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. The book won the American Political Science Association’s 2002 Foundations of Political Theory Section Best First Book Award. The following year, Shachar accepted an Monnet Center
Emile Noël Senior Fellows at
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, the ...
. Shachar was later appointed to Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and finally became a Full Professor of Law, Political Science and Global Affairs.
As Shachar accepted her new appointment, she also became a
Canada Research Chair
Canada Research Chair (CRC) is a title given to certain Canadian university research professors by the Canada Research Chairs Program.
Program goals
The Canada Research Chair program was established in 2000 as a part of the Government of Canada ...
with her husband
Ran Hirschl.
In the following year, Shachar received grants and awards to continue her research on citizenship. In 2005, she was the recipient of the Connaught Research Fellowship in the Social Science. In 2006, prior to leaving for a Visiting Fellowship at
Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School (Stanford Law or SLS) is the law school of Stanford University, a private research university near Palo Alto, California. Established in 1893, it is regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world. Stanford La ...
, Shachar earned a grant from the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC; french: Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, CRSH) is a Canadian federal research-funding agency that promotes and supports post-secondary research and traini ...
to research and write her new book on citizenship. By 2009, she published "''The Birthright Lottery,''" which suggested that since citizenship is transferred by birthright, an entirely new category of citizenship transfer needs to be created to correct global injustice. A later article written on the theme of Citizenship, which was published in the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law, was the recipient of the Chapter Award of the Migration and Citizenship section of the American Political Science Association.
In 2014, Shachar was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bil ...
for her contributions to the fields of international ethics and global justice. The next year, she became the Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. A few years later, she was the recipient of the 2019
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (german: link=no, Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft), in short Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the German Research Foundation to ...
to conduct research on Citizenship in Germany.
References
External links
CV
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Living people
1966 births
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Canadian legal scholars
Canadian women academics
Lawyers in Ontario
University of Toronto Faculty of Law faculty
Tel Aviv University alumni
Yale Law School alumni
Canada Research Chairs
Max Planck Institute directors