Ayelet Shachar (FRSC) is the R.F. Harney Chair and Director of the Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies Program at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, where she is Professor of Law, Political Science, and Global Affairs. Previously, Shachar was Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. At Goethe University Frankfurt, she is affiliated with the Faculty of Law and the Normative Orders Research Centre. An award-winning author, she has published extensively on the topics of citizenship, global inequality, competitive migration regimes, cultural diversity and gender equality. Her research is motivated by the need to develop new legal principles to address some of the most pressing issues of our time: how to live together in diverse societies, how to grant rights to those who lack formal access to membership, and how to tame the ever-expanding reach of borders and migration control in a world of persistent inequality.
Ayelet Shachar won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize—Germany’s most prestigious research award for her groundbreaking work on citizenship and the legal frameworks of accommodation in multicultural societies.
Contact: office-shachar@uni-frankfurt.de
Selected publications
Books
2020. The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility, Critical Powers Series, Manchester University Press
2017. The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship, Oxford University Press
2009. The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality, Harvard University Press
2001. Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women’s Rights, Cambridge University Press
Papers
2021. Unequal Access: Wealth as Barrier and Accelerator to Citizenship, CitizenshipStudies, 25 (4), 543-563
2020. Beyond Open and Closed Borders: The Grand Transformation of Citizenship, Jurisprudence, 11, 1-27
2019. Spatial Statism (with Ran Hirschl), International Journal of Constitutional Law, 17 (2), 387–438
2018. The Marketization of Citizenship in an Age of Restrictionism, Ethics & International Affairs, 32, 3-13
2014. On Citizenship, States, and Markets (with Ran Hirschl), Journal of Political Philosophy, 22, 231-257
2012. Demystifying Culture, I-CON International Journal of Constitutional Law, 10, 429-448
2011. Picking Winners: Olympic Citizenship and the Global Race for Talent, Yale Law Journal, 120, 2088-2139
2011. Earned Citizenship: Property Lessons for Immigration Reform, Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, 23, 110-158
2008. Privatizing Diversity: A Cautionary Tale from Religious Arbitration in Family Law, Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 9(2), 573-607
Book Chapters
2013. Entangled: Family, Religion and Human Rights, in Cindy Holder and David Reidy (des), Human Rights: The Hard Questions, Cambridge University Press, 115-135