Ran 

HIRSCHL

Professor Ran Hirschl is Professor of Political Science & Law at the University of Toronto. As of 2016, he also holds the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in Comparative Constitutionalism at the University of Göttingen, having been granted a coveted AvH International Research Award (the most highly-endowed research award in Germany) by the Humboldt Foundation. He is the author of several award-winning books, including Towards Juristocracy (Harvard University Press, 2004), Constitutional Theocracy (Harvard University Press, 2010), Comparative Matters (Oxford University Press, 2014) and City, State (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2020),  as well as over one hundred articles and book chapters on constitutional law and its intersection with comparative politics. From 2006 to 2016 he held the Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Development at the University of Toronto. 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.”