Director of the Institute of European Studies; Irving G. and Eleanor D. Tragen Chair in Comparative Law, University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Ayelet Shachar (LL.M., J.S.D, Yale Law School) is the Irving G. and Eleanor D. Tragen Chair in Comparative Law, University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Institute of European Studies. Professor Shachar is the author of over 100 articles and book chapters, as well as award-winning monographs and edited volumes, the most recent of which is, Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects: Migration, Asylum, and Shifting Borders, co-edited with Seyla Benhabib and published by Cambridge University Press in 2025. Her research focuses on questions of citizenship, immigration, integration...