Ayelet Shachar

LAPA Visiting Scholar, 2002-2003
University of Toronto

84 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C5
Ayelet.shachar@utoronto.ca
phone: 416-978-1620
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While at LAPA
Ayelet Shachar is an award-winning scholar and a leading expert on issues of citizenship theory, immigration law, multi-level governance regimes, and the rights of women within minority cultures. She holds an LL.B in Law and B.A. in Political Science, summa cum laude ('93), from Tel Aviv University; LL.M. ('95) and J.S.D ('97), both from Yale Law School. Before arriving at Yale, she clerked for Deputy Chief Justice (now Chief Justice) Aharon Barak of the Supreme Court of Israel. Professor Shachar teaches at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Shachar's recently published book, Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2001), was awarded the American Political Science Association Best First Book Award. She is currently writing a new book, entitled Citizenship as Property: The New World of Bounded Communities, which critically assesses the philosophical foundations and global distributive functions of birthright citizenship.

Life after LAPA
Ayelet Shachar has been named the Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism at the Faculty of Law, and is cross-appointed to the Department of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science.

Professor Shachar is the recipient of many academic awards and fellowships, including, most recently, nomination as Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2000-2001), Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Princeton's Law and Public Affairs Program (2003), Emile Noël Senior Fellow at NYU School of Law (2003) and Connaught Research Fellowship in the Social Sciences at the University of Toronto(2005). She has been appointed as the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Stanford Law School for the 2006-07 academic year.

Her articles have appeared in leading law reviews and social science journals, including the Journal of Political Philosophy, NOMOS, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, NYU Law Review, Political Theory, McGill Law Journal, as well as in the following edited books: Multicultural Questions (Oxford, 1999), Citizenship in Diverse Societies (Oxford, 2000), From Migrants to Citizens: Membership in a Changing World (Brookings, 2000), Breaking the Cycle of Hatred: Memory, Law, and Repair (Princeton, 2002), The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence (Cambridge, 2004); Cultural Diversity and Political Theory (Cambridge, 2006), and Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances (Cambridge, 2007). Her new book, Citizenship as Inherited Property: The New World of Bounded Membership will be published by Harvard University Press.

Professor Shachar has delivered public lectures on citizenship, immigration, religious accommodation and women's rights at the University of Amsterdam, European University Institute, Harvard University, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Michigan Law School, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science, Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School, Stanford University, University of Toronto's Munk Centre and Faculty of Law, and Yale University.