Hila Shamir

Hila Shamir is the Chair of Transnational Law and the European University Institute School of Transnational Governance and a Professor of Law (on leave) at Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law. Shamir is Principal Investigator (PI) of ChainGE Lab (ERC), a research group that pursues research on a New Labour Law for a Global Value Chain Economy.

During the academic year 2023-2024, Shamir was a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and a fellow at the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School and at The Harvard Law School Law and Political Economy Program. From 2018-2023, Shamir was the Principal Investigator of the TraffLab (ERC) – Labor Perspective to Human Trafficking research project. TraffLab was a finalist for the ERC Public Engagement with Research Award 2022. 

Shamir earned her S.J.D. and LL.M. from Harvard Law School and LL.B. from Tel-Aviv University. She teaches and researches in the fields of Employment, Labour, Immigration, and Welfare Law with a focus on issues of labour trafficking, workers’ rights in global value chains, and gender equality. Shamir has taught at the law schools at Harvard, Toronto University, Georgetown, Notre Dame (Indiana) and Cornell, and at UC Berkeley and Harvard University. She served as Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs at TAU Law (2017-2018). 

Shamir is also the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, the EU Marie Curie Reintegration Grant, the Alon Scholarship for outstanding junior faculty and of two research grants from the Israeli Science Foundation and the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology. She was a member of the Israeli Young Academy and chair of its Diversity Committee. She is a co-author of the book Governance Feminism: An Introduction (Minnesota U. Press, 2018) and co-editor of the book Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field (Minnesota U. Press, 2019) (co-authored and co-edited with Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran and Rachel Rebouche). In 2025, she published the co-edited volume Modern Slavery and the Governance of Global Value Chains (Cambridge University Press, (co-edited with Bimal Arora, Tamar Barkay and Shilpi Banerjee).  

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