Principal Investigator

Prof. Dr. Ayelet Shachar

Projekte und Positionen im Forschungszentrum
Leitung der Leibniz Forschungsgruppe „The Transformations of Citizenship“
Principal Investigator

Projektleitung: No Alternative? Challenges to Democracy Today | Forschungsschwerpunkt 1 – Umstrittene Ordnungen: Die Zukunft der Demokratie

Fachrichtungen
Rechtswissenschaften, Politikwissenschaft

Forschungsschwerpunkte
Ethnic, Immigration & Pluralism Studies

  • Biografische Angaben

    Since 2023: Member, Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Social Sciences (Academy II), Selection Committee

    2022-2023: Chair of Selection Committee, American Political Science Association (APSA) 2023 Benjamin E. Lippincott Award

    2021-present: R.F. Harney Chair and Director of Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies, University of Toronto

    Since 2020: Advisory Board Member, Oxford Studies of Migration and Citizenship Series, Oxford University Press

    2020: Visiting Scholar, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University

    2019-2022: Advisory Board Member, Boundaries, Membership & Belonging Research Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) [Toronto, Canada]

    2018-2019; 2021-2022: Selection Committee Member, Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award

    2017-2022: Advisory Board Member, Centre for Ethics, Economy and Social Change, Max Planck-Cambridge (Max-Cam), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    2016-2020: Founding Co-Chair, Max Planck Research Initiative on Migration, Integration and Exclusion

    2015-2020: Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic

    Editorial Board Member, Journal of Politics

    2010-2013: Editorial Board Member, Citizenship Studies

    Since 2009: Advisory Board Member, Law & Ethics of Human Rights

    2009-2015: Editorial Board Member, University of Toronto Law Journal

    Since 2008: Editorial Board Member, Ethnicities

    2008: Distinguished Visiting Professor, USC Gould School of Law

    2007-2015: Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism

    2007-2008: Jeremiah Smith Jr. Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

    2006-2007: Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights, Stanford Law School
    2004-2007: Associate Professor in Law and Political Science, University of Toronto

    2003: Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University

    1997: Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.), Yale University, United States (supervisors Jack Balkin, Reva Siegel, Bruce Ackerman)

    1995-1997: Dr of the Science of Law (J.S.D.), 1995-1997, Yale Law School, Yale University, United States

    1994-1995: LL.M. Law; Yale Law School, Yale University, United States

  • Publikationen

    2025 2024

    2022
    Ayelet Shachar (2022): „Instruments of Evasion: The Global Dispersion of Rights-Restricting Migration Policies“, California Law Review 110 (2022), 967-1009.
    Ayelet Shachar (2022): „Reply to My Critics“ (Symposium on The Shifting Border), European Journal of Political Theory 21 (2022), 615-623.
    Ayelet Shacha (2022): „Solidarity in Place? Hope and Despair in Postpandemic Membership“, Ethics & International Affairs, 36, 487-504.

    2021
    Shachar, Ayelet; Mahmood, Aaqib (2021): „The Body as the Border: A New Era“, Historical Social Research, 46, 124-150.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2021): „Unequal Access: Wealth as Barrier and Accelerator to Citizenship“, Citizenship Studies, 25, 543-563.

    2020
    Shachar, Ayelet (2020): “Beyond Open and Closed Borders: The Grand Transformation of Citizenship”, Jurisprudence, 11, 1-27.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2020): “Borders in Time of COVID-19”, Ethics & International Affairs Online Exclusive.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2020): “On the Verge of Citizenship: Negotiating Religion and Gender Equality” In Oxford Handbook on Global Legal Pluralism. Paul Schiff Berman, ed. (Oxford University Press), 1017-1043.
    Shachar, Ayelet; Hirschl, Ran (2020): Spatial statism: A rejoinder, in: International Journal of Constitutional Law, 18:1, S. 45–50.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2020): The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility. Critical Power Series. Manchester University Press.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2020): “Wide Angle – Shifting Borders: Invisible, But Very Real”, The UNESCO Courier: A Whole New World, Reimagined by Women, 2, 32-34. (This article appeared in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese.)

    2019
    Shachar, Ayelet (2019): “Disruptive Innovation: Family Migration and Gender Justice,” Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, 20:1, S. 13–33.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2019): “Migrating Borders/Bordering Migration”. In Berkeley Journal of International Law 37, 37:1, S. 93–151.
    Hirschl, Ran; Shachar, Ayelet (2019): “Spatial Statism”. In International Journal of Constitutional Law 17, 17:2, S. 387–438.

    2018
    Hirschl, Ran; Shachar, Ayelet (2018): “Competing Orders? The Challenge of Religion to Modern Constitutionalism.” The University of Chicago Law Review 85, S. 425-455.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2018): “‘Religious Talk’ in Narratives of Membership”. In Constitutional Democracies in Crisis? Mark Graber, Sanford Levinson and Mark Tushnet, eds. Oxford University Press, 515-531.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2018): “The Marketization of Citizenship in an Age of Restrictionism.” Ethics and International Affairs 32, S. 3-13.

    2017
    Shachar, Ayelet (2017): “Citizenship for Sale?” In Ayelet Shachar, Rainer Bauböck, Irene Bloemraad and Maarten Vink (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Citizenship. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 789-816.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2017): “Constituting Citizens: Oath, Gender, Religious Attire.” In Richard Albert and David Cameron (eds.) Canada and the World: Comparative Perspectives on the Canadian Constitution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 98-122.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2017): “Introduction: Citizenship – Quo Vadis?” In Ayelet Shachar, Rainer Bauböck, Irene Bloemraad and Maarten Vink (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Citizenship. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-11.
    Shachar, Ayelet; Bauböck, Rainer; Bloemraad, Irene; Vink, Maarten (2017): The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship. Oxford University Press.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2017): „The Reinvention of Territoriality: Legal Cartographies of Borders and Migration Control“. Max Planck Society Yearbook.

    2016
    Shachar, Ayelet (2016): „Faith in law? Diffusing tensions between diversity and equality.“ In: Seyla Benhabib and Volker Kaul (eds.) Toward New Democratic Imaginaries – İstanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 315-329.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2016): „Selecting by Merit: The Brave New World of Stratified Mobility.“ In: Sarah Fine and Lea Ypi (eds.) Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Mobility. Oxford University Press, pp. 175-201.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2016): „Squaring the Circle of Multiculturalism? Religious Freedom and Gender Equality in Canada.“ Law and Ethics of Human Rights 10, S. 31-69.

    2015
    Shachar, Ayelet (2015): „Law, Religion and Gender.“ In: Silvio Ferrari (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Law and Religion. Routledge, pp. 321-336.
    Shachar, Ayelet; Brahm Levey, Geoffrey (2015): The Politics of Citizenship in Immigrant Democracies: The Experience of the United States, Canada, and Australia. Routledge.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2015): „The Search for Equal Membership in the Age of Terror.“ In: Edward M. Iacobucci and Stephen J. Toope (eds.) After the Paris Attacks: Responses in Canada, Europe and Around the World. University of Toronto Press, pp. 65-73.

    2014
    Shachar, Ayelet (2014): „Citizenship and the ‚Right to Have Rights'“ Citizenship Studies 18, S. 114-124.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2014): “Dangerous Liaisons: Money and Citizenship” in Ayelet Shachar and Rainer Bauböck (eds.) Should Citizenship be for Sale? EUI Working Paper RSCAS 1/2014. European University Institute. Greek translation appeared in Review of Immigration Law 3 (2014), 123-129.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2014): „Family Matters: Is there Room for ‚Culture‘ in the Courtroom?“ In: Will Kymlicka, Matt Matravers and Claes Lernestedt (eds.) Criminal Law and Cultural Diversity. Oxford University Press, pp. 119-152.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2014): „On Citizenship, States, and Markets.“ Journal of Political Philosophy 22, S. 231-257.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2014): „The Constitutional Boundaries of Religious Accommodation.“ In: Susanna Mancini and Michel Rosenfeld (eds.) Constitutional Secularism in an Age of Religious Revival. Oxford University Press, pp.175-191.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2014): “When Law Meets Diversity: Implications for Women’s Equal Citizenship”. In Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies. Steven Vertovec, ed. Routledge, 234-244.

    2013
    Shachar, Ayelet; Hirschl, Ran (2013): „Entailed Citizenship.“ In: John Cunliffe and Guido Erreygers (eds.) Inherited Wealth, Justice and Equality. Routledge, pp. 81-97.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2013): „Entangled: Family, Religion and Human Rights.“ In: Cindy Holder and David Reidy (eds.) Human Rights: The Hard Questions. Cambridge University Press, pp. 115-135.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2013): “Immigration Policy-Setting as a Competitive Scramble among Jurisdictions”. In Wanted and Welcome? Highly Skilled Immigration Policies in Comparative. Perspective Phil Triadafilopoulos, ed. (Springer), 85-104.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2013): “Interpretation Sections of the Charter (Art. 27 & 28)” In The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms/Charte canadienne des droits et libertés. Errol Mendes and Stéphane Beaulac, eds. (5th ed, Lexis/Nexis), 147-190.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2013): “Jenseits von Blut und Boden: Staatsbürgerliche Zugehörigkeit unter den Bedingungen der Globalisierung” (Mosse-Lectures an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). In Staatsbürgerschaft: Rechtliche, Soziale, Kulturelle und Politische Grenzwerte. Klaus R. Scherpe and Elisabeth Wagner, eds. (Vorwerk 8), 61-74.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2013): „Multiculturalism.“ In: Gregory Claeys (ed.) Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought. Sage/CQ Press.
    Shachar, Ayelet; Hirschl, Ran (2013): „Recruiting ‚Super Talent‘: The New World of Selective Migration Regimes“ Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 20, S. 71-107.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2013): „Talent Matters: Immigration Policy-Setting as a Competitive Scramble among Jurisdictions.“ In: Phil Triadafilopoulos (ed.) Wanted and Welcome? Hightly-Skilled Immigration Policies in Comparative Perspective. Springer, pp. 85-104.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2013): „The Missing Link: Rootedness as a Basis for Membership.“ In: Sigal Ben-Porath and Rogers M. Smith (eds.) Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship. University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 124-146.

    2012
    Shachar, Ayelet (2012): „Citizenship“ In: Andras Sajo and Michel Rosenfeld (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law. Oxford University Press, pp. 1002-1019.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2012): „Demystifying Culture.“ I-CON International Journal of Constitutional Law 10, S. 429-448.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2012): „Highly Skilled Immigration: The New Frontier of International Labor Migration.“ ASIL (American Society of International Law) Proceedings of the 105th Annual Meeting, S. 415-419.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2012): „Just Membership: Between Ideals and Harsh Realities.“ Les Ateliers de l’ethique/The Ethics Forum 7, S. 70-87.

    2011
    Shachar, Ayelet (2011): “Earned Citizenship: Property Lessons for Immigration Reform”. In Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 22, S. 110-158.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2011): “Picking Winners: Olympic Citizenship and Global Race for Talent”. In Yale Law Journal 120, S. 2088-2139.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2011): “The Birthright Lottery: Response to Interlocutors”. In Issues in Legal Scholarship 9.

    2010
    Shachar, Ayelet (2010): “Freedom of the Dress: Religion and Women’s Rights in Secular States”. In Harvard International Review 32, S. 53-59.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2010): “Global Gender Inequality and the Empowerment of Women”. In Perspectives on Politics 8, S. 279-281.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2010): “The Return of the Repressed: Constitutionalism, Pluralism and Religion”. In International Journal of Constitutional Law 8, S. 665-670.

    2009
    Shachar, Ayelet (2009): Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women’s Rights. Cambridge University Press.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2009): The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality. Harvard University Press.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2009): “The Future of National Citizenship: Going, Going, Gone?” In University of Toronto Law Journal 59, S. 579-590.
    Hirschl, Ran; Shachar, Ayelet (2009): “The New Wall of Separation: Permitting Diversity, Restricting Competition”. In Cardozo Law Review 30, S. 2535-2560.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2009): “What We Owe Women? The View from Multicultural Feminism”. In Toward a Humanist Justice: The Work of Susan Moller Okin. Debra Satz and Rob Reich, eds. Oxford University Press, 143-165.

    2008
    Shachar, Ayelet (2008): “Citizenship and Global Distribution of Opportunity”. In Citizenship between Past and Future. [Special volume celebrating the 10th year anniversary of Citizenship Studies]. Engin F. Isin, Peter Nyres and Bryan Turner, eds. Routledge, 139-149.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2008): “Privatizing Diversity: A Cautionary Tale from Religious Arbitration in Family Law,” In Theoretical Inquiries in Law 9, S. 573-607.

    2007
    Shachar, Ayelet (2007): “Against Birthright Privilege: Re-defining Citizenship as Property”. In Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances. Seyla Benhabib, Ian Shapiro, and Danilo Petranovic, eds. Cambridge University Press, 257-281.
    Shachar, Ayelet; Hirschl, Ran (2007): “Citizenship as Inherited Property”. In Political Theory 35, 253-287.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2007): “Feminism and Multiculturalism: Mapping the Terrain”. In Cultural Diversity and Political Theory. David Owen and Anthony Laden, eds. Cambridge University Press, 115-148.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2007): “The Shifting Border of Immigration Regulation”. In Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 3, 165-193.
    Shachar, Ayelet (2007): “The ‘Worth’ of Citizenship in an Unequal World”. In Theoretical Inquiries in Law 8, 367-388.

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