Hanna Lerner

Dr. Hanna Lerner

IIAS
Hanna Lerner

Hanna  Lerner    is  a  senior  lecturer  in  political  science  at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on comparative constitution  writing, religion and politics, international  labor rights and global governance. She is the author of Making Constitutions    in    Deeply    Divided    Societies    (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and coeditor of Constitution Writing, Religion and Democracy (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), Global Justice and International Labour Rights (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), and Handbook on Comparative Constitution Making (Edward Elgar, forthcoming). Dr. Lerner received her PhD in political science from Columbia University (2006) and held a visiting fellowship at the Institute of International and Regional Studies, Princeton University (2010-11). In 2014 she co-organized a research group on constitutionalism and religion at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld University, Germany. During the academic year of 2015-16 she is a visiting scholar at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.