Ayelet Shachar

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Professor Ayelet Shacharis Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and Professor of Law, Political Science and Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. She has previously held visiting professorships at Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School. Shachar’s main research foci include citizenship theory, immigration law and multiculturalism as well as cultural diversity, women’s rights and global inequality. Having provided consultancy expertise to the European Parliament and the World Bank, Shachar was awarded Germany’s most prestigious research award in 2019, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.