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Seyla Benhabib is a Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, with affiliations in the Department of Philosophy and the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from Yale University (1977) and has taught at institutions including Yale, Harvard, and the New School for Social Research. Her research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century European political philosophy, citizenship and migration studies, feminist theory, and democratic theory.
Benhabib’s work integrates critical analysis of Hannah Arendt’s thought with contemporary issues in migration, human rights, and global justice. She has held prestigious roles such as the James S. Carpentier Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia and has been a Guggenheim Fellow. Her publications include seminal works like The Rights of Others (2004) and Exile, Statelessness, and Migration (2018). She has delivered major lecture series at Princeton, Cambridge, and Berkeley, and founded the Istanbul Seminars to foster intercultural dialogue in the Middle East.
Benhabib has received honorary degrees from universities worldwide and contributed to journals like Constellations. Her courses at Columbia include topics on transnational constitutionalism, refugee law, and democratic theory. Her scholarship emphasizes reconciling democratic sovereignty with cosmopolitan norms in an era of globalization.
