Prof. Sharon Shakargy is an associate professor at the law faculty at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in Private International and Interreligious Law (Conflict of Laws), Family Law and Comparative Law. In her work, she studies the legal manifestations of identity and how they have changed over time. Her research focuses on questions such as the cross-border regulation of marriage and divorce, the regulation of alternative spousal relationships, the recognition of non-romantic relationships, surrogacy agreements, and the cross-border protection of people with disabilities. Some of her recent works were published in journals such as the Journal of Private International Law, the American Journal of Comparative Law, and the International Journal of Policy, Law and the Family. 

Prior to joining the Hebrew University, Sharon served as a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School, a Fulbright Scholar and Grotius Research Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School, and an academic visitor at the University of Oxford.

Sharon is the co-founder and Manager of the Israeli Family Law Forum, which is composed of legal academics, judges  and practitioners, as well as several researchers from other relevant fields. She has also served as a public representative in the ethics committee of the Jerusalem Branch of the Israeli Bar. 

Education

LL.D. Hebrew University, Faculty of Law (2013)

LL.M., magna cum laude, Hebrew University, Faculty of Law (2007)

LL.B., Hebrew University, double major in law and humanities, Faculty  of Law and "Amirim" interdisciplinary honours program in liberal arts (2005)

Representative publications

Books

• Katarina Trimmings, Sharon Shakargy, Claire Achmed, Research Handbook On Surrogacy (forthcoming Edward Elgar Publishing 2024, 28 chapters)

• Sharon Shakargy, Choice of Law in Matters of Marriage and Divorce in the Light of Changes in Substantive law (Harry and Michael Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University, 2015, 360 pages, in Hebrew)

Articles

• Sharon Shakargy Capacitating Personal Capacity: Cross-Border Regulation of Guardianship Alternatives for Adults, 19 Journal of Private International Law (forthcoming 2023, approximately 40 pages)
• Sharon Shakargy, Un-identifying Identification, 24 Yearbook of Private International Law (forthcoming 2023, approximately 13 pages)
• Sharon Shakargy, Peace to Them, Both Near and Far, Hukim Journal for Legislative Research (forthcoming 2023, approximately 30 pages) [in Hebrew]
• Sharon Shakargy, Family Shall Be Redeemed with Judgement? Family, Law and Family Law, 34 Bar-Ilan Law Review (forthcoming 2022, approximately 36 pages) [in Hebrew]
• Miriam Gur-Arye and Sharon Shakargy, Solidarity, Religious Freedom and Covid-19: The Case of the Ultra-Orthodox Sects in Israel, 2 Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy  203-217 (202 1 )
• Sharon Shakargy, Whose Law is it Anyway? The Case of Matrimonial Property in Israel 23 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 165-190 (2022)
• Sharon Shakargy, Plus One: Who Defines One’s Significant Other? International 35 Journal of Law, Policy and the Family ebab017, 1-30 (2021)
• Sharon Shakargy, The Outlawed Family: How Relevant is the Law in Family Litigation? 47 Mitchell Hamline Law Review 568-605 (2021)
• Sharon Shakargy, You Name it: On the Cross-Border Regulation of Names, 68 American Journal of Comparative Law 647-688 (2020)
• Sharon Shakargy, Erroneous Correction 33 Bar-Ilan Law Review, 413 - 433 (2020) [in Hebrew]
• Sharon Shakargy, Choice of law for Surrogacy Agreements: In the in-Between of Status and Contract 16 Journal of Private International Law, 138-162 (2020)
• Sharon Shakargy, 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)
• Sharon Shakargy, Marriage by the State or Married to the State? On Choice of Law for Marriage and Divorce, 9Journal of Private International Law499-533 (2013)

Chapters in Collections

• Sharon Shakargy, Surrogacy in Private International Law in Katarina Trimmings, Sharon Shakargy, Claire Achmed, Research Handbook On Surrogacy (forthcoming 2024, approximately 16 pages)
• Sharon Shakargy, Israel in Jens Scherpe and Andy Howard (eds.) The Legal Status of De Facto Relationships (forthcoming Intersentia, 2024, approximately 37 pages)
• Sharon Shakargy, La réglentation israélienne de le gestation pour autrui: Ça nous tient à cœur (mais seulement chez nous), in Véronique Boillet, Marta Roca I Escoda and Estelle Du Luze eds., La Gestation Pour Autrui: Approches Juridiques Internationales, 109-124 (Anthemis, 2018)
• Sharon Shakargy, Israel, inPaul Beaumont and Katarina Trimmings eds., International Surrogacy Agreements: Legal Regulation at the National Level, 231-246 (Hart Publishing, 2013)