Ran Hirschl
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Ran Hirschl is Professor of Political Science and Law, and holds a senior Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy & Development. He completed his B.A., LL.B., and M.A. at Tel-Aviv University, and received his M.Phil and Ph.D. from Yale University. His primary areas of interest are comparative constitutional law and politics, comparative legal institutions, and constitutional theory. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, and at Princeton University's Program in Law and Public Affairs. While at Yale and the University of Toronto he received several other fellowships and awards, including a Fulbright Scholar nomination, Connaught Research Fellowship in the Social Sciences, and a first-ranked nationwide Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Grant.
He has published extensively on comparative constitutional law and politics in social science journals, law reviews, and edited collections. He is the editor (with Christopher L. Eisgruber), of a special symposium issue of I-CON International Journal of Constitutional Law entitled "North American Constitutionalism," and the author of Towards Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism (Harvard University Press, 2004). He is currently working on two new books tentatively titled: Sacred Judgments: The Dilemma of Constitutional Theocracy, and Lex Comparativus Novo: Comparative Legal Studies for the 21st Century.
