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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Ran Hirschl is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada, specializing primarily in social sciences with a strong focus on political science, law, and economics. Their work spans several subfields including political science and international relations, law, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, and urban studies.

The main topics covered in Hirschl's research include judicial and constitutional studies, legal and constitutional studies, American constitutional law and politics, electoral systems and political participation, European and international law studies, comparative and international law studies, and populism and right-wing movements.

Among Hirschl's notable recent publications are:

  • A Fair Process Matters: The Relationship between Public Participation and Constitutional Legitimacy, 2024, Law & Social Inquiry
  • Comparative Constitutional Design: Northern Stagnation, Southern Innovation, 2024, Constitutional Forum / Forum constitutionnel
  • Constitutions and the Metropolis, 2020, Annual Review of Law and Social Science
  • How Constitutional Rights Matter: Thoughts on the New Gold Standard in Empirical Constitutional Studies, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal

Hirschl has frequently published in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Law & Social Inquiry, Constitutional Forum / Forum constitutionnel, Annual Review of Law and Social Science, and the International Journal of Constitutional Law.

Collaboration is a part of their research practice, with frequent coauthors including Alexander Hudson, Gary J. Jacobsohn, Howard Schweber, Monika Polzin, and Jaclyn L. Neo.

In addition to journal articles, Hirschl has authored a book titled Deciphering the Genome of Constitutionalism published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Ran Hirschl was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2014, linked to the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Towards Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism

    Ran Hirschl

  • The Judicialization of Mega-Politics and the Rise of Political Courts

    Ran Hirschl

  • The Judicialization of Politics

    Ran Hirschl

  • The Political Origins of Judicial Empowerment through Constitutionalization: Lessons from Four Constitutional Revolutions

    Ran Hirschl

  • The Question of Case Selection in Comparative Constitutional Law

    Ran Hirschl

  • Comparative Matters: The Renaissance of Comparative Constitutional Law

    Ran Hirschl

  • The Political Origins of the New Constitutionalism

    Ran Hirschl

  • Constitutional Theocracy

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  • Citizenship as inherited property

    Ayelet Shachar;Ran Hirschl

  • Economic and Social Rights in National Constitutions

    Courtney Jung;Ran Hirschl;Evan Rosevear

  • On Citizenship, States, and Markets

    Ayelet Shachar;Ran Hirschl

  • Constitutional Courts vs. Religious Fundamentalism: Three Middle Eastern Tales

    Ran Hirschl

  • Israel’s ‘Constitutional Revolution’: The Legal Interpretation of Entrenched Civil Liberties in an Emerging Neo-Liberal Economic Order

    Ran Hirschl

  • Recruiting "Super Talent": The New World of Selective Migration Regimes

    Ayelet Shachar;Ran Hirschl

  • From comparative constitutional law to comparative constitutional studies

    Ran Hirschl

  • "Negative" Rights vs. "Positive" Entitlements: A Comparative Study of Judicical Interpretations of Rights in an Emerging Neo-Liberal Economic Order

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  • "Juristocracy" -- Political, not Juridical

    Ran Hirschl

  • Resituating the Judicialization of Politics: Bush v. Gore as a Global Trend

    Ran Hirschl

  • The New Constitutionalism and the Judicialization of Pure Politics Worldwide

    Ran Hirschl

  • The "Constitutional Revolution" and the Emergence of a New Economic Order in Israel

    Ran Hirschl

  • City, state: constitutionalism and the megacity

    Ran Hirschl

  • The Nordic counternarrative: Democracy, human development, and judicial review

    Ran Hirschl

  • The Realist Turn in Comparative Constitutional Politics

    Ran Hirschl

  • The Nordic Counter-Narrative: Democracy, Human Development, and Judicial Review

    Ran Hirschl

  • Opting Out of “Global Constitutionalism”

    Ran Hirschl

  • Foreword: Spatial statism

    Ran Hirschl;Ayelet Shachar

  • Preserving hegemony? Assessing the political origins of the EU Constitution

    Ran Hirschl

  • In Search of an Identity: Voluntary Foreign Citations in Discordant Constitutional Settings

    Ran Hirschl

  • Constitutional transformation, gender equality, and religious/national conflict in Israel: tentative progress through the obstacle course

    Ran Hirschl;Ayelet Shachar;Ayelet Shachar

  • Constitutional Law Meets Comparative Politics: Socio-Economic Rights and Political Realities (Chapter 10)

    Ran Hirschl;Evan Rosevear

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