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Ran Hirschl is Professor of Political Science and Law, and holds a senior Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy & Development. He completed his B.A., LL.B., and M.A. at Tel-Aviv University, and received his M.Phil and Ph.D. from Yale University. His primary areas of interest are comparative constitutional law, constitutional and judicial politics, and comparative legal traditions and institutions more generally. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, and at Princeton University's Program in Law and Public Affairs, served as the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and has recently been appointed a Global Faculty member at NYU Law School. While at Yale and the University of Toronto he received several other fellowships and awards, including a Fulbright Scholar nomination, Connaught Research Fellowship in the Social Sciences, and a first-ranked nationwide Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Grant. In recognition of his excellence in research and teaching, he has received the Faculty of Arts & Science Dean's Merit Award for ten consecutive years, and most recently, the Faculty's Outstanding Teaching Award.
Professor Hirschl is the author of Towards Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism (Harvard University Press, 2004 & 2007), the editor (with Christopher L. Eisgruber), of a special symposium issue of I-CON International Journal of Constitutional Law entitled "North American Constitutionalism". His new book, entitled Constitutional Theocracy will be published by Harvard University Press in 2010.
Professor Hirschl has published extensively on comparative constitutional law and politics in journals such as Law & Social Inquiry, Comparative Politics, Political Theory, American Journal of Comparative Law, Constellations, Human Rights Quarterly, Annual Review of Political Science, International Journal of Constitutional Law, and the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, as well as numerous articles in law reviews, including most recently the Cardozo Law Review, William and Mary Law Review, Harvard International Law Journal and the Texas Law Review, and has contributed chapters to edited collections such as The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence (Cambridge, 2005); The Migration of Constitutional Ideas (Cambridge, 2006); The Oxford Handbook of Law & Politics (Oxford, 2008); Montesquieu and His Legacy (SUNY 2009); The Oxford Handbook of Political Science (Oxford, 2009); The Limits of Constitutional Democracy (Princeton, 2010); and Rescuing Human Rights (Oxford, 2010).
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