Ayelet Shachar is the Irving G. and Eleanor D. Tragen Chair in Comparative Law, University of California, Berkeley. Previously, she held the R.F. Harney Chair in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies at the University of Toronto. From 2015-2020, she was a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society(opens in a new tab)—one of the foremost research organizations in the world—and Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Professor Shachar has published extensively on the topics of citizenship theory, immigration law, highly skilled migration and global inequality, multiculturalism and women’s rights, law and religion in comparative perspective, and the fraught relations between human rights law and territorial conceptions of sovereignty. She was also featured in a Berkeley Law's article on the eight new professors joining Berkeley's world-class faculty!
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