Liav Orgad is a Fellow-in-Residence at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, a Marie Curie Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin, and an Associate Professor at IDC Herzliya. His research interests include constitutional identity, citizenship theory, global migration, international jurisprudence, and political theory. In recent years, Orgad was a Fulbright Scholar at NYU Law School, a Jean-Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI), a Visiting Professor at FGV Direito Rio, and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, Universität Luzern, and the Roosevelt Academy, the Netherlands.

Orgad is the recipient of the Eric Stein Prize for “best scholarly article” by the American Society for Comparative Law, and the author of ״The Cultural Defense of Nations: A Liberal Theory of Majority Rights״ (OUP, Oxford Constitutional Theory, 2016). He has been granted fellowships from Harvard, NYU, EUI, Fulbright, Rothschild, the European Commission, and a Global Young Faculty Fellowship by Volkswagen Foundation.

Orgad holds LL.D. and LL.M. degrees from the Hebrew University (2011, 2005), an LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School (2007), and LL.B. and B.A. degrees from IDC Herzliya (2003). He is a Member of the Global Young Academy (2016-20).

Latest News

Book Review: LSE Review of Books (May 2016); The New Rambler Review (May 2016), Prospect Magazine (Feb. 2016)

Appointment: Orgad has been selected to the Global Young Academy (April 2016)

Book Symposium: "Cultural Majority Rights," Verfassungsblog, WZB Berlin (March 2016)

Recent Presentations

Faculty Seminar: "Citizen-Makers: Ethical Dilemmas in Immigrant Education,"Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics (April 12, 2016)

International Conference, EUI: "The Multicultural Question in a Mobile World" (April 7-8, 2016)

Book Talk: Harvard Book Store and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics (April 1, 2016)