Ayelet Shachar

Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism; Professor of Law, Political Science, and Global Affairs. Research interests include: citizenship theory, immigration law, highly skilled migrants, as well as multiculturalism and feminism, women’s rights and religious diversity. She is the author of Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women’s Rights (Cambridge, 2001); The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality (Harvard, 2009), in addition to numerous articles published in leading law and social science journals. Shachar’s work has influenced scholarly debates, as well as legal and public policy deliberations in Canada and abroad. In 2014, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.