Hila Shamir

Professor of Law

Hila Shamir is a Professor at Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law. She is an expert in the fields of Employment, Labor, Immigration, and Welfare Law with a focus on issues of workers in global value chains, human trafficking, and gender equality. Shamir has taught at Toronto Faculty of Law, Georgetown Law School, Cornell Law School, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University. She served as Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs at TAU Law (2017-2018). Shamir received a European Research Council (ERC) grant to pursue research on a Labor Approach to Human Trafficking, and established TraffLab – Labor Perspective to Human Trafficking research project (2018-2023). She then received a second ERC grant to explore “A New Labor Law for Supply Chain Capitalism (Sept 2024- Sept. 2029).