Ayelet Shachar -- Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience

Stanford Law School Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor of Law (2006-2007)

University of Toronto Faculty of Law Associate Professor (with tenure) (2004-present) Cross-Appointed to the Department of Political Science

University of Toronto Faculty of Law Assistant Professor (1999-2004)

Åbo Akademi University, Finland Institute for Human Rights Faculty Member of the Nordic Human Rights Research Course (summer 2003)

Princeton University Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) Distinguished Visiting Scholar (spring 2003)

NYU School of Law Emile Noël Senior Fellow (spring 2003)

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Member (2000-2001)

University of Toronto Faculty of Law Visiting Professor (spring 1999)

Yale Law School Senior Research Associate & Tutor in Law, Graduate Programs (1996-1998)

Yale Law School W.M. Keck Fellow in Legal Ethics and Professional Culture (1997)

Israel Supreme Court Deputy Chief Justice (now Chief Justice) Aharon Barak Law Clerk (1994)

Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) Legal Department Legal Intern (1993)

Education

Yale Law School J.S.D. (Doctor of the Science of Law), 1997 LL.M. (Master of Laws), 1995

Tel Aviv University LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws), 1993 B.A. (Political Science), Summa Cum Laude, 1993

Awards and Fellowships

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant (2006-2009)

Connaught Research Fellowship in the Social Sciences (spring 2005) University of Toronto

Provostial Merit Increase Award (2003, 2004, 2005) University of Toronto

Distinguished Visiting Scholar Princeton University, Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) (spring 2003)

Emile Noël Senior Fellow NYU School of Law (spring 2003)

American Political Science Association (APSA) Best First Book Award, Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights, Cambridge University Press, 2001, Awarded August 2002

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Member (2000-2001)

Cecil A. Wright Foundation for Legal Scholarship Research Grant University of Toronto, Faculty of Law (2000-2004)

Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT) Scholarly Paper Honorable Mention "The Puzzle of Interlocking Power Hierarchies: Sharing the Pieces of Jurisdictional Authority" Harvard Civil Rights- Civil Liberties Law Review 35 (2000): 385-426, Awarded April 2001

W.M. Keck Foundation Fellowship in Legal Ethics and Professional Culture Yale Law School (1997-1998)

J.S.D. Tory Award Wining Award, "Reshaping the Multicultural Model: Group Accommodation and Individual Rights," Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues 8 (1998): 83-111, Awarded December 1997

Fulbright Fellowship (1994-1996)

Una Weiler Excellence Award for Junior Legal Scholars, Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law, "The Sexuality of Law: The Legal Discourse of Rape," Tel Aviv University Law Review 18 (1993):159-199 [Hebrew], Awarded May 1994

Israeli Parliament Award for Exceptional Academic Merit The Knesset (Israel's Parliament) Education Committee, Jerusalem, Awarded May 1993

Other Professional Activities

University of Toronto, Faculty of Law Editor SSRN/LSN Toronto Law School Research Papers - Public Law and Legal Theory (2004-present)

Yale Law School Editor Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities (1994-1995)

Research Interests

Citizenship and Immigration Law, Highly Skilled Migrants, State and Religion in Comparative Perspective, Family Law, Group Rights and Gender Equality, Multilevel Governance Regimes, Transnational Legal Process, Contemporary Political and Legal Theory

Courses Taught

Civil Procedure (first-year course), Legal Process (first-year course), Law & Diversity: An Introduction (first-year course), Citizenship Theory and Immigration Law (upper-year course), Immigration Law (upper-year course), The Multiculturalism Debate in Comparative Perspective (seminar), Culture, Rights, and Equality (seminar), Citizenship, Multiculturalism, and the Family (seminar)

Professional Associations

• Association of American Law Schools (AALS) • American Political Science Association (APSA) • American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (ASPLP) • Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT) • Law and Society Association (LSA)

Languages

• English • Hebrew • French