Ran Hirschl | |
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רן הירשל | |
Born | 1963 Israel |
Citizenship | Canadian |
Title | Professor |
Spouse | Ayelet Shachar |
Awards | Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research |
Academic background | |
Education | |
Thesis | Do bills of rights matter?: a comparative inquiry into the political sources and the de facto consequences of the constitutionalization of rights (1999) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | The University of Toronto |
Main interests | Comparative Constitutional Law Constitutional theocracy |
Ran Hirschl FRSC (Hebrew: רן הירשל; born 1963) is a political scientist and comparative legal scholar. He is the David R. Cameron Distinguished Professor of Law and Politics at the University of Toronto. Previously, he held the Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Development at the University of Toronto. He is the author of several major books and over one hundred and fifty articles on constitutional law and its intersection with comparative politics and society. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2021, he was awarded the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research for his book City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity.[1]