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Ran Hirschl

Ran Hirschl
רן הירשל
Born1963
Israel
CitizenshipCanadian
TitleProfessor
SpouseAyelet Shachar
AwardsStein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research
Academic background
Education
ThesisDo bills of rights matter?: a comparative inquiry into the political sources and the de facto consequences of the constitutionalization of rights (1999)
Academic work
InstitutionsThe University of Toronto
Main interestsComparative 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]

  1. ^ "Stein Rokkan Prize Winners". European Consortium for Political Research. Retrieved 18 September 2021.

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