Prof. Dr. Ayelet Shachar - Publications

Shachar, A.: Beyond open and closed borders: The grand transformation of citizenship. Jurisprudence 11 (1), pp. 1 - 27 (2020)

Shachar, A.: Shifting borders: invisible, but very real. The UNESCO Courier 2, pp. 32 - 34 (2020)

Shachar, A.; Hirschl, R.: Spatial statism: A rejoinder. International Journal of Constitutional Law 18 (1), pp. 45 - 50 (2020)

Hirschl, R.; Shachar, A.: Foreword: Spatial statism. International Journal of Constitutional Law 17 (2), pp. 387 - 438 (2019)

Shachar, A.: Disruptive innovation: Family migration and gender justice. Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 20 (1), pp. 13 - 33 (2019)

Shachar, A.: Bordering migration/migrating borders. Berkeley Journal of International Law 37 (1), pp. 93 - 147 (2019)

Hirschl, R.; Shachar, A.: Competing orders? The challenge of religion to modern constitutionalism. The University of Chicago Law Review 85 (2), pp. 425 - 455 (2018)

Shachar, A.: The marketization of citizenship in an age of restrictionism. Ethics & International Affairs 32 (1), pp. 3 - 13 (2018)

Shachar, A.: Squaring the circle of multiculturalism? Religious freedom and gender equality in Canada. Law and Ethics of Human Rights 10 (1), pp. 31 - 69 (2016)

Shachar, A.: Citizenship and the 'right to have rights'. Citizenship Studies 18 (2), pp. 114 - 124 (2014)

Shachar, A.; Brahm Levey, G.: Preface. Citizenship Studies 18 (2), p. 113 (2014)

Shachar, A.; Hirschl, R.: On citizenship, states, and markets. Journal of Political Philosophy 22 (2), pp. 231 - 257 (2014)

Shachar, A.: Just membership: between ideals and harsh realities. Les ateliers de l’éthique / The Ethics Forum 7 (2), pp. 71 - 88 (2012)

Shachar, A.: Demystifying culture. International Journal of Constitutional Law 10 (2), pp. 429 - 448 (2012)

Shachar, A.: Picking winners: olympic citizenship and global race for talent. Yale Law Journal 120 (8), pp. 2088 - 2139 (2011)

Shachar, A.: The birthright lottery: response to interlocutors. Issues in Legal Scholarship 9 (1), pp. 429 - 448 (2011)

Shachar, A.: Earned citizenship: property lessons for immigration reform. Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 23 (1), pp. 110 - 158 (2011)

Shachar, A.: The return of the repressed: constitutionalism, pluralism and religion. International Journal of Constitutional Law 8 (3), pp. 665 - 670 (2010)

Shachar, A.: Freedom of the dress: religion and women's rights in secular states. Harvard International Review 32, pp. 53 - 59 (2010)

Shachar, A.: Faith in Law? Diffusing tensions between equality and diversity. Philosophy & Social Criticism 36 (3-4), pp. 395 - 411 (2010)

Shachar, A.: The future of national citizenship: Going, going, gone? University of Toronto Law Journal 59, pp. 579 - 590 (2009)

Shachar, A.; Hirschl, R.: The new wall of separation: permitting diversity, restricting competition. Cardozo Law Review 30 (6), pp. 2535 - 2560 (2009)

Shachar, A.: Privatizing diversity: a cautionary tale from religious arbitration in family law. Theoretical Inquiries in Law 9 (2), pp. 573 - 607 (2008)

Shachar, A.: The shifting border of immigration regulation. Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 3, pp. 165 - 193 (2007)

Shachar, A.: The ‘worth’ of citizenship in an unequal world. Theoretical Inquiries in Law 8 (2), pp. 367 - 388 (2007)

Shachar, A.; Hirschl, R.: Citizenship as inherited property. Political Theory 35 (3), pp. 253 - 287 (2007)

Shachar, A.: The race for talent: highly skilled migrants and competitive immigration regimes. New York University Law Review 81 (1), pp. 148 - 206 (2006)

Shachar, A.: Religion, state, and the problem of gender: new modes of citizenship and governance in diverse societies. McGill Law Journal 50, pp. 49 - 88 (2005)

Shachar, A.: Two critiques of multiculturalism. Cardozo Law Review 23 (1), pp. 253 - 297 (2001)

Shachar, A.: On citizenship and multicultural vulnerability. Political Theory 28 (1), pp. 64 - 89 (2000)

Shachar, A.: The puzzle of interlocking power hierarchies: sharing the pieces of jurisdictional authority. Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 35 (2), pp. 385 - 416 (2000)

Shachar, A.: Whose republic? Citizenship and membership in the Israeli polity. Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 13 (2), pp. 233 - 272 (1999)

Shachar, A.: Reshaping the multicultural model: group accommodation and individual rights. Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues 8, pp. 83 - 111 (1998)

Shachar, A.: Group identity and women’s rights in family law: the perils of multicultural accommodation. Journal of Political Philosophy 6 (3), pp. 285 - 305 (1998)

Shachar, A.: The sexuality of law: the legal discourse of rape. Tel Aviv University Law Review 18, pp. 159 - 199 (1993)

Shachar, A.: The shifting border: Legal cartographies of migration and mobility, Ayelet Shachar in dialogue. Manchester University Press, Manchester (2020), 328 pp.

Shachar, A.: The birthright lottery: Citizenship and global inequality. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. (2009)

Shachar, A.: Multicultural jurisdictions: cultural differences and women's rights. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2001)

Shachar, A.: Highly skilled immigration: the new frontier of international labor migration. In: Harmony and Dissonance in International Law. Proceedings of the 105th Annual Meeting., Vol. 105, pp. 415 - 419 (Ed. American Society of International Law). American Society of International Law 105th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., March 23, 2011 - March 26, 2011. (2012)

Shachar, A.: Dangerous liaisons: money and citizenship. Should Citizenship be for Sale? EUI Working Paper (RSCAS 1/2014) pp. 3 - 8 (2014)

Shachar, A.; Brahm Levey, G. (Eds.): Citizenship in a globalized world: the experience of immigrant democracies (Special issue). Citizenship Studies 18, (2) (2014)

Shachar, A.: Global gender inequality and the empowerment of women: a discussion of "Half the sky: turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide". Perspectives on Politics 8 (1), pp. 279 - 281 (2010)

Shachar, A.: Review of Jan Feldman, “Lubavitchers as citizens: a paradox of liberal democracy”. Perspectives on Politics 2 (2), pp. 356 - 357 (2004)

Shachar, A.: Review of Daniel Levy and Yfaat Weiss (eds.) “Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration”. American Journal of Sociology 109 (3), pp. 785 - 787 (2003)

Shachar, A.: Review of Andrea T. Baumeister, “Liberalism and the ‘Politics of Difference’”. The Philosophical Quarterly 52 (206), pp. 131 - 134 (2002)

Shachar, A.: Review of Martha C. Nussbaum, “Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach”. The Philosophical Quarterly 49 (1), p. 134 (2001)

Shachar, A.: On the verge of citizenship: Negotiating religion and gender equality. In: The Oxford handbook of global legal pluralism, Chapt. 39 (Ed. Berman, P. S.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2020)

Shachar, A.: Citizenship for sale? In: The Oxford handbook of citizenship, paperback edition Ed., pp. 789 - 816 (Eds. Shachar, A.; Bauböck, R.; Bloemraad, I.; Vink, M.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2020)

Shachar, A.; Bauböck, R.; Bloemraad, I.; Vink, M.: Introduction: Citizenship - quo vadis? In: The Oxford handbook of citizenship, paperback edition Ed. (Eds. Shachar, A.; Bauböck, R.; Bloemraad, I.; Vink, M.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2020)

Hirschl, R.; Shachar, A.: 'Religious Talk' in narratives of membership. In: Constitutional democracy in crisis?, pp. 515 - 531 (Eds. Graber, M. A.; Levinson, S.; Tushnet, M.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2018)

Shachar, A.: Constituting citizens: Oaths, gender, religious attire. In: Canada in the world: Comparative perspectives on the Canadian constitution, pp. 123 - 152 (Eds. Albert, R.; Cameron, D. R.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2018)

Shachar, A.; Hirschl, R.: Citizenship as inherited property. In: Citizenship and Constitutional Law (Ed. Shaw, J.). Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK (2018)

Shachar, A.: Citizenship for sale? In: The Oxford handbook of citizenship, pp. 789 - 816 (Eds. Shachar, A.; Bauböck, R.; Bloemraad, I.; Vink, M.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2017)

Shachar, A.; Bauböck, R.; Bloemraad, I.; Vink, M.: Introduction: Citizenship - quo vadis? In: The Oxford handbook of citizenship, pp. 3 - 14 (Eds. Shachar, A.; Bauböck, R.; Bloemraad, I.; Vink, M.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2017)

Shachar, A.; Hirschl, R.: The new wall of separation: permitting diversity, restricting competition. In: Comparative Constitutional Law (Ed. Tushnet, M.). Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK (2017)

Shachar, A.: Selecting by merit: The brave new world of stratified mobility. In: Migration in political theory: The ethics of movement and membership, pp. 175 - 201 (Eds. Fine, S.; Ypi, L.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2016)

Shachar, A.: Faith in law? Diffusing tensions between diversity and equality. In: Toward new democratic imaginaries - İstanbul seminars on Islam, culture and politics, pp. 315 - 329 (Eds. Benhabib, S.; Kaul, V.). Springer, Heildelberg (2016)

Shachar, A.: Introduction: Citizenship and the ‘right to have rights’. In: The politics of citizenship in immigrant democracies, pp. 1 - 11 (Eds. Shachar, A.; Levey, G. B.). Routledge, London (2015)

Shachar, A.: The search for equal membership in the age of terror. In: After the Paris attacks: responses in Canada, Europe and around the world, pp. 65 - 74 (Eds. Iacobucci, E. M.; Toope, S. J.). University of Toronto Press, Toronto (2015)

Shachar, A.: Law, religion and gender. In: Routledge handbook of law and religion, pp. 321 - 336 (Ed. Ferrari, S.). Routledge, London (2015)

Shachar, A.: Family matters: is there room for 'culture' in the courtroom? In: Criminal Law and Cultural Diversity, pp. 119 - 152 (Eds. Kymlicka, W.; Matravers, M.; Lernestedt, C.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2014)

Shachar, A.: The constitutional boundaries of religious accommodation. In: Constitutional Secularism in an Age of Religious Revival, pp. 175 - 191 (Eds. Mancini, S.; Rosenfeld, M.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2014)

Shachar, A.: Entangled: family, religion and human rights. In: Human Rights: The Hard Questions, pp. 115 - 135 (Eds. Holder, C.; Reidy, D.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2013)

Shachar, A.: Interpretation sections (27 & 28) of the canadian charter. In: Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms/Charte canadienne des droits et libertés, pp. 147 - 190 (Eds. Mendes, E.; Beaulac, S.). LexisNexis Canada, Markham (2013)

Shachar, A.: Talent matters: immigration policy-setting as a competitive scramble among jurisdictions. In: Wanted and Welcome? Hightly-Skilled Immigration Policies in Comparative Perspective, pp. 85 - 104 (Ed. Triadafilopoulos, T.). Springer, New York (2013)

Shachar, A.: The missing link: rootedness as a basis for membership. In: Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship, pp. 124 - 146 (Eds. Ben-Porath, S. R.; Smith, R. M.). University of Pennsylvania Press, Pennsylvania (2013)

Shachar, A.: Multiculturalism. In: Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought, Vol. 2 (Ed. Claeys, G.). SAGE / CQ Press, London (2013)

Shachar, A.; Hirschl, R.: Entailed citizenship. In: Inherited Wealth, Justice and Equality, pp. 81 - 97 (Eds. Cunliffe, J.; Erreygers, G.). Routledge, New York (2013)

Shachar, A.: Citizenship. In: Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law, pp. 1002 - 1019 (Eds. Sajó, A.; Rosenfeld, M.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2012)

Shachar, A.: State, religion, and the family: the new dilemmas of multicultural accommodation. In: Shari'a in the West, pp. 115 - 133 (Eds. Ahdar, R.; Aroney, N.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2010)

Shachar, A.: What we owe women: the view from multicultural feminism. In: Toward a Humanist Justice: The Work of Susan Moller Okin, pp. 143 - 165 (Eds. Satz, D.; Reich, R.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2009)

Shachar, A.: Citizenship and global distribution of opportunity. In: Citizenship Between Past and Future, pp. 139 - 149 (Eds. Isin, E. F.; Nyres, P.; Turner, B.). Routledge, New York (2008)

Shachar, A.: Feminism and multiculturalism: mapping the terrain. In: Multiculturalism and Political Theory, pp. 115 - 148 (Eds. Owen, D.; Laden, A.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2007)

Shachar, A.: Against birthright privilege: redefining citizenship as property. In: Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances, pp. 257 - 281 (Eds. Benhabib, S.; Shapiro, I.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2007)

Shachar, A.: The law of return. In: Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present, Vol. 2 (Eds. Gibney, M. J.; Hansen, R.). ABC-CLIO, London (2005)

Shachar, A.; Hirschl, R.: Constitutional transformation, gender equality, and religious/national conflict in Israel: tentative progress through the obstacle course. In: The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence, pp. 205 - 229 (Eds. Baines, B.; Rubio-Marin, R.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2005)

Shachar, A.: Children of a lesser state: sustaining global inequality through citizenship laws. In: NOMOS: Child, Family, and the State, pp. 345 - 397 (Eds. Young, I. M.; Macedo, S.). New York University Press, New York (2003)

Shachar, A.: The thin line between imposition and consent: a critique of birthright membership entitlements and their implications. In: Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law and Repair, pp. 200 - 235 (Ed. Minow, M.). Princeton University Press, Princeton (2002)

Shachar, A.: Should church and state be joined at the altar? Women’s rights and the multicultural dilemma. In: Citizenship in Diverse Societies, pp. 199 - 223 (Eds. Kymlicka, W.; Norman, W.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2000)

Shachar, A.: The paradox of multicultural vulnerability: individual rights, identity groups, and the state. In: Multicultural Questions, pp. 87 - 129 (Eds. Joppke, C.; Lukes, S.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (1999)

Shachar, A.; Lerner, N.: Minority rights in international law. In: Israel Yearbook of Law (Ed. Israel Bar Association). Tel Aviv (1993)

Benhabib, S.; Shachar, A. (Eds.): Lawless zones, rightless subjects: Migration, asylum, and shifting borders. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2025), 362 pp.

Shachar, A.; Bauböck, R.; Bloemraad, I.; Vink, M. (Eds.): The Oxford handbook of citizenship. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2017)

Shachar, A.; Levey, G. B. (Eds.): The politics of citizenship in immigrant democracies. Routledge, London (2015)

Shachar, A.: [Blog Post:] Borders in the time of COVID-19. (2020)

Shachar, A.: Die Neuerfindung von Territorialität: Juristische Grenzziehung und Migrationskontrolle in einer globalisierten Welt. (2016)