Hila Shamir is an Associate Professor at Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law. She earned her S.J.D. and LL.M. from Harvard Law School and LL.B. from Tel-Aviv University. Shamir teaches and researches in the fields of Employment, Labor, Immigration, and Welfare Law with a focus on issues of labor trafficking, and feminist legal thought. Shamir has taught at Cornell Law School, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University. Shamir served as TAU Law’s Associate Dean of Academic Affair at TAU Law (2017-2018) and is currently chair of TAU Law’s LLM program. She received a European Research Council (ERC) grant to pursue research on a Labor Approach to Human Trafficking and is the PI of TraffLab (www.trafflab.org). She is also the recipient of several additional grants including a Fulbright Scholarship, the EU Marie Curie Reintegration Grant, and of research grants from the Israeli Science Foundation and the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology. In 2018 Shamir was selected to be a member of the Israeli Young Academy. Her recent publications include: A Labor Paradigm for Human Trafficking, 60 UCLA Law Review 76 (2012); and the book GOVERNANCE FEMINISM: AN INTRODUCTION, co-authored with Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran and Rachel Rebouche (2018, Minnesota University Press) and the co-edited book GOVERNANCE FEMINISM: NOTES FROM THE FIELD (2019, Minnesota University Press).
