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City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity
Ran Hirschl, Professor of Government and the Earl E. Sheffield Regents Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin, School of Law
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Ran Hirschl (Ph.D., Yale University) is Professor of Government and the Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, he was Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Toronto, where he held the Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Development. He studies constitutional law and constitutional institutions and their intersection with comparative politics and society. Professor Hirschl is the author of over 120 articles and book chapters, as well as several major books including City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity (Oxford University Press, 2020)—winner of the Stein Rokkan Prize in Comparative Social Science Research; Comparative Matters: The Renaissance of Comparative Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press, 2014)—winner of the American Political Science Association (APSA) Herman Pritchett Award for the best book on law and courts; Constitutional Theocracy (Harvard University Press, 2010)—winner of the Mahoney Prize in Legal Theory; and Towards Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism (Harvard University Press, 2004)—winner of the APSA Law & Courts Section Lasting Contribution Award.
Professor Hirschl has won academic excellence awards in five different countries, including a Killam Research Fellowship awarded by the Canada Council of the Arts and a coveted Alexander von Humboldt International Research Award—the most highly-endowed research award in Germany. He is the recipient of a University of Toronto teaching award and the APSA & Pi Sigma Alpha certificate for outstanding teaching in political science. He served as co-president of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), and held distinguished visiting professorships at Harvard, Stanford, NYU, and NUS. Hirschl is also the editor of Cambridge University Press book series on comparative constitutional law and policy. His work on the intersection of social science and public law has been translated into various languages, discussed in numerous scholarly fora, cited by jurists and in high court decisions worldwide (most recently by the Supreme Court of Canada in November 2020), and addressed in media venues from the New York Times and Folha de Sao Paulo to the Jerusalem Post.
In 2014, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC)—the highest academic accolade in that country. The official citation describes him as “one of the world’s leading scholars of comparative constitutional law, courts and jurisprudence.”