Brief Bio

Sharon Shakargy is the Judge Harry M Fisher Professor of Private International and Interreligious Law at the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses primarily on Private International Law (Conflict of Laws), Family law and Comparative Law. She received her degrees (LL.B in law and the humanities, LL.M and LL.D) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has spent extensive periods conducting research in the US, England and Germany. She is the founder of the Israeli Family Law Forum and a team member of the ELI Project on Filiations.

Representative Publications

Books

  • Choice of Law in Matters of Marriage and Divorce in the Light of Changes in Substantive Law (Sacher Institute, 2015) (in Hebrew)
  • Research Handbook On Surrogacy (Eduard Elgar Publishing 2024) (with Katarina Trimmings and Claire Achmed)

Articles

  • “Marriage by the State or Married to the State? On Choice of Law for Marriage and Divorce”, 9 Journal of Private International Law 499-533 (2013)
  • “What Do You Do When They Don’t Say ‘I Do’? Cross-Border Regulation for Alternative Spousal Relationships”, 47 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 427-469 (2015)
  • “Choice of law for Surrogacy Agreements: In the in-Between of Status and Contract 16 Journal of Private International Law”, 138-162 (2020)
  • “You Name it: On the Cross-Border Regulation of Names”, 68 American Journal of Comparative Law 647-688 (2020)
  • “The Outlawed Family: How Relevant is the Law in Family Litigation?”, 47 Mitchell Hamline Law Review 568-605 (2021)
  • “Plus One: Who Defines One’s Significant Other?”, 35 International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family ebab017, 1-30 (2021)
  • “Solidarity, Religious Freedom and Covid-19: The Case of the Ultra-Orthodox Sects in Israel”, 2 Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy  203-217(2021) (with Miri Gur-Arye)
  • “Whose Law is it Anyway? The Case of Matrimonial Property in Israel”, 23 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 165-190 (2022)
  • “Capacitating Personal Capacity: Cross-Border Regulation of Guardianship Alternatives for Adults”, 19 Journal of Private International Law 450-480 (2023)

Courses Taught at CTLS

  • Comparative and Transnational Family Law: Understanding the Global Family (Spring 2025)
  • Private International Law – a Comparative Approach (Spring 2025)