Ayelet Shachar

Ayelet Shachar is the Irving Tragen Chair in Comparative Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and former Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. She is the author of field-defining books on citizenship theory, migration law, cultural diversity and women's rights, and new border regimes including, most recently, The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility (2020). Her research has influenced law and policymakers and...See more

Ayelet Shachar is the Irving Tragen Chair in Comparative Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and former Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. She is the author of field-defining books on citizenship theory, migration law, cultural diversity and women's rights, and new border regimes including, most recently, The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility (2020). Her research has influenced law and policymakers and she has provided pro-bono consultation to judges, non-governmental organizations, the European Parliamentary Research Services, and the World Bank. The recipient of numerous excellence awards, Shachar is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and winner of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. See less