Prof. Liav Orgad
Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy
LL.M., Columbia University
Research and Teaching Expertise
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Comparative Constitutional Law -
Constitutional Identity
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Comparative Immigration Law
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Citizenship Theory
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Multiculturalism
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International Legal Jurisprudence
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Liav Orgad is an Associate Professor at the Lauder School of Government and the co-Director of the Rubinstein Center for Constitutional Challenges at the Harry Radzyner Law School, Reichman University. He is also the Director of the Research Group “Global Citizenship Governance” at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, the European University Institute (EUI), Head of the Research Group “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 global governance, technological innovation, digitalization, international migration, citizenship studies, and constitutional identity. In recent years, Orgad was a Faculty Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School and FGV Direito Rio, a Marie Curie Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, a Fulbright and Rothschild Scholar at NYU Law School, and a Jean-Monnet Fellow at the EUI. He is the recipient of the European Research Council “Starting Grant” (1.5 million Euro).
Orgad has published in the American Journal of Comparative Law (Oxford), American Journal of Law & Economics (Oxford), American Journal of International Law (Cambridge), International Journal of Constitutional Law, ICON (Oxford), Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence (Cambridge), and German Law Journal (Cambridge). He is currently writing a book, "The Future of Citizenship: How Technology Shapes Membership and Belonging" (Cambridge University Press, under contract). His previous book manuscript, "The Cultural Defense of Nations: A Liberal Theory of Majority Rights," was published by Oxford University Press (Oxford Constitutional Theory, 2016).
Orgad’s research was awarded the Russell Sage Presidential Authority Award and the Israel Science Foundation Grant. He has won numerous prizes, among them the Eric Stein Prize for the “best article” by the American Society for Comparative Law, and been granted various scholarships, among others, Fulbright, Jean-Monnet, Marie Curie, ISEF, and Global Young Faculty Fellowship. He is a co-founder of the “Transnational Collaborative on Cities, Mobility, and Membership,” and the annual “European Junior Faculty Forum for Public Law” (WZB-LSE-EUI).
Orgad is a Member of the Global Young Academy and the Young Academy of Europe. He has been selected as one of the “Young Promising Leaders” in Israel (“40 under 40,” 2013) and received Israel’s “Most Inspiring Lecturer Award” (the National Union of Israeli Students, 2016). -
Books
The Future of Citizenship: How Technology Shapes Membership and Belonging (Cambridge University Press, under contract)
Cultural Defense of Nations: A Liberal Theory of Majority Rights (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Book Reviews"Citizenship at a Crossroad," 18(4) (I-CON) (2021) (with Ashley Mantha-Hollands)
“At Home in Two Countries,” 112(4) American Journal of International Law 789 (2018)
"The Citizenship Puzzle," 59(2) American Journal of Comparative Law 594 (2011)
Edited Volumes
Working Papers Series
ArticlesForced to be Free: The Limit of European Tolerance," 34 Harvard Human Rights Journal (2021)
"Global Migration Crisis," 62 Justice 30 (2018-19) (with Amnon Rubinstein)
"Liberalism, Allegiance, and Obedience," 17(1) Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 99 (2014)
Articles (in Hebrew)"Access to Courts for Enemy Aliens," 29(2) aw Review 469 (2013) (with Yoram Rabin)
"The Puzzle of Loyalty: Who Owes What to Whom," 14 IDC Law Review 723 (2012)
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Book Interview, Der Tagesspiegel
40UNDER40, Promising Young People
Book Review, Prospect Magazine
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WZB Social Science Center Berlin
Peking University School of Transnational Law