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Ayelet Shachar is Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Toronto, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism. She received her 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 served as Law Clerk to Deputy Chief Justice (now retired Chief Justice) Aharon Barak of the Supreme Court of Israel. In 2006-2007 Professor Shachar served as the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Stanford Law School, and in 2007-2008 she was named the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
Her scholarship focuses on legal theory; citizenship and immigration law; highly skilled migrants;
cultural accommodation and family law; multiculturalism and women's rights; law and religion in comparative perspective; transnational legal process and ethics.
Her new book, The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality, has just been published by Harvard University Press (2009). It has been featured in Nexus (PDF), Edge (PDF), Yale Law Report, Rorotoko, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, the Literary Review of Canada, and La Revue Nouvelle.
Professor Shachar has received many academic awards and fellowships, including appointment as Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Princeton's Law and Public Affairs Program, Emile Noël Senior Fellow at NYU School of Law, and Connaught Research Fellow at the University of Toronto. In recognition of her excellence in research and teaching, she has received the University's Provostial Merit Increase Award for five consecutive years. She also served as a Member of Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) national grant selection committe for legal scholarship and research (2008-2009).
Professor Shachar frequently delivers public lectures to academic and non-academic audiences alike. She has published extensively in leading law reviews, political philosophy, and social science journals. She is the author of Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2001), for which she won the American Political Science Association Best First Book Award in 2002. This work has proved influential, intervening in actual public policy and legislative debates in Canada and abroad. It was cited, most recently, by England's Arcbhishop of Canterbury (Civil and Religious Law in England), Ontario's Ministry of the Attorney General (Dispute Resolution in Family Law: Protecting Choice, Promoting Inclusion), and the Supreme Court of Canada (Bruker v. Marcovitz).
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