Liav Orgad is the Director of the Rubinstein Center for Constitutional Challenges at Reichman University, a Visiting Research Professor in International Citizenship Law at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and a Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at Peking University School of Transnational Law. His research focuses on constitutional identity, democratic theory, citizenship studies, transnational law and governance, and the impact of technological innovation on citizenship & governance.
He has held numerous prestigious academic positions, including Director of the “Global Citizenship Governance” group at the European University Institute (EUI), Faculty Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Ethics, and Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School and FGV Direito Rio. He has also been a Marie Curie Fellow, Fulbright and Rothschild Scholar at NYU Law School, and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI.
Orgad is the author of The Cultural Defense of Nations: A Liberal Theory of Majority Rights (Oxford University Press, 2016) and co-editor of Majorities, Minorities, and the Future of Nationhood (Cambridge University Press, 2022). His forthcoming book, The Future of Citizenship (CUP), examines the digitalisation of citizenship. His work has appeared in leading journals in comparative, international, and constitutional law.
A recipient of major research grants and awards, including the ERC Starting Grant and the Eric Stein Prize, Orgad is also a co-founder of key academic initiatives and a member of the Global Young Academy and the Young Academy of Europe.
During his stay at CALS, Orgad will conduct research related to his work-in-progress books, The Rise of Numerocracy, exploring human metrics systems in Singapore and their regulation, and Democracy at Trial, examining the global crisis of democracy and alternative models of democratic systems.
