Adam Shinar
聽is an associate Professor at the Harry Radzyner Law School at Reichman University. He was a CCDS Visiting Fellow in September 2024. During his stay, he presented two of his works-in-progress: 鈥淏oycotting German and Germany: Artistic Censorship and the Creation of Israel, 1948-1967鈥 and 鈥淐onstitutional Overhaul, the War in Gaza, and the聽Puzzle of Civic Mobilization聽in Israel鈥.
Prof. Adam Shinar holds an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he also served as the Clark Byse Fellow. He also holds an LL.B. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. He clerked for the President of the Israeli Supreme Court, Aharon Barak, and worked as an attorney for several human rights NGOs in Israel and India.He specializes in constitutional law and theory and comparative constitutional law. His academic interests include labor law, administrative law, legal theory, sociology of law, and political philosophy. He has written on diverse topics, such as obedience to law by public officials, judicial review, constitutional interpretation, public sector reforms, constitutional rights in the Occupied Territories, and freedom of speech. More recently, he is working on the history of censorship of films and plays in Israel.
Prof. Shinar鈥檚 publications appeared in leading journals such as The American Journal of Comparative Law, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Global Constitutionalism, Constitutional Commentary, the Theory and Practice of Legislation, and the Connecticut Law Review, among others. His research was presented in leading universities such as Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, and the European University Institute, in addition to being cited by the Israeli SupremeCourt.Prof. Shinar was awarded the 2013 Israeli Association of Public Law Gorni Prize for Young Researchers. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, and an academic advisory board member of the Israel Supreme Court Project at Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University. He also served as a visiting professor at Cat贸lica University Law School in Lisbon.
Noam Maggor
聽is Senior Lecturer in American Historyat the Queen Mary聽University of London. He was a CCDS Visiting Fellow in 2023-2024, working on his new project, tentatively entitled 鈥淭he United States as a Developing Nation鈥, which interrogates the integration of vast territories of what became the American West into the economic orbit of the United States. With renewed attention to the core concerns of political economy, it aims to position the Western U.S. comparatively alongside other global peripheries 鈥 in Russia, Egypt, India, and Latin America 鈥 that were aggressively pulled in this period into the world economy.
Noam Maggor is聽a historian of the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a particular emphasis on the emergence of industrial capitalism.聽His聽book聽Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America's First Gilded Age, is a finance-driven and urban-centered account of the transformation of American capitalism at the end of the nineteenth century. It explores how the United States shifted from its former position in the world economy as an exporter of agricultural commodities 鈥 cotton, above all 鈥 to an industrial nation and imperial power on the world stage. In particular, the book analyzes the creation of an interconnected national market, which has long been viewed as immutable and technologically-driven, as a contentious and highly malleable political project. It more generally examines economic change as politically constituted and deeply ideological, transcending conceptual divides between economics, politics, culture, and society.聽
Noam鈥檚聽broad interests聽include the history of capitalism, history of globalization, history of the state, business history, urban history, history of the United States, and the history of the American west.
Scott Stephenson
聽is聽an Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne. He was a CCDS Visiting Fellow in April-May 2023 as part of his sabbatical for the purpose of conducting research on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for constitutional democracy.
After receiving his BA and LLB(Hons) with the University Medal in Law from the Australian National University, Dr.聽Scott Stephenson worked at the High Court of Australia for two years, first as the Court鈥檚 Legal Research Officer and subsequently as Associate to Justice Virginia Bell AC. He then obtained his LLM and JSD from Yale University. He has held visiting positions at the University of Cambridge, University of Copenhagen, King鈥檚 College London and University of Oxford. He is the Treasurer and a Council Member of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law.
His research focuses on topics of Australian and comparative constitutional law and theory, including federalism, models of rights protection, the separation of powers, and the use of comparative materials. His book on the bills of rights in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom,聽, was awarded the Holt Prize in 2015. He has published in a number of leading Australian, Irish, UK, US and international journals, including the聽American Journal of Comparative Law,聽Dublin University Law Journal,聽Federal Law Review,聽International Journal of Constitutional Law,聽Melbourne University Law Review,聽Oxford Journal of Legal Studies聽and聽Sydney Law Review.
Carlo Burelli,聽Visiting Fellow
聽is聽Assistant Professor聽at the聽University of Eastern Piedmont. He was a CCDS Visiting Fellow in 2021-2022, teaching聽鈥淓thical Inquiry: Problems and Paradigms鈥.聽Carlo's research is focused on traditional political realism, which has seen increased focus recently as a criticism of liberal theory, bridging classical philosophies of Machiavelli and Hobbes to contemporary issues. He聽brought聽a contemporary realist justification of democracy to the CCDS, one based on Machiavellian republicanism. In the Ethical Inquiry course, he聽explored聽normative ethics, whether the skepticism of ethics is warranted and how to answer skeptical challenges.聽His聽research is broadly interested in clarifying what can and should hold together today鈥檚 large and conflictual societies. This vast question led him to cross various debates: utopian and realist political theory, theories of justice and theories of legitimacy, solidarity and equality in contemporary political societies. He published two monographs in Italian, and several articles in leading international journals (such as European Journal of Political Theory, Journal of Common Market Studies, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice).
Kira Mienville, Program Officer
Kira Mienville was聽a聽Program Officer for the CCDS聽in 2023-2024.
Zach Freig,聽Program Officer
Zach Freig聽was a聽Program Officer for the CCDS聽in 2022-2023.聽Currently, he聽is a PhD candidate in Political Theory at UC Berkeley. Zach聽holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge in Political Thought and Intellectual History, as well as a Bachelors degree in Philosophy and Religion from the University of Winnipeg (Canada). Zach鈥檚 research intersects political theory, intellectual history, and philosophy.
Kendra Mills,聽Program Officer
Kendra聽Mills聽was聽a Program Officer聽for聽the CCDS聽in 2021-2022.聽Currently, she is聽JD Candidate at The George Washington University Law School. Kendra聽is a聽graduate of 绿巨人视频鈥檚 History, Law, and Society program聽and聽holds an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics. She聽has previously worked with the Global Justice Center, the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, and the Education Justice Project.
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