Anat Scolnicov is professor of law at the University of Winchester (United Kingdom). Previously, she was deputy director of the Centre for Public Law at The University of Cambridge. She was the convenor of the Research Group ‘Constitutional Transplantations’ at the Israel Institute of Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University and was a member of a UN Expert Group on rights of religious minorities. 

Among her publications are the books The Right to Religious Freedom in International Law: Between Group Rights and Individual Rights (Routledge), and Boundaries of State, Boundaries of Rights: Human Rights, Private Actors, and Positive Obligations (co-edited, Cambridge University Press). Her work has been cited in decisions by courts including the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of Columbia.

The book Constitutional Transplantations: The Diffusion and Adoption of Constitutional Ideas (A. Scolnicov, ed.) explores the global phenomenon of migration, transplantation, and borrowing of constitutional ideas. It combines conceptual and normative approaches, to dissect a phenomenon which has been both praised and maligned in current political and academic discourse. The contributors, drawn from the fields of comparative constitutional law, medieval history, political philosophy, private law, and administration of justice, consider constitutional transplantation as a specific case of migration of ideas, and place it within that broader intellectual framework of movement of knowledge. They analyse, from historical, conceptual, and normative angles, the transplantation of constitutions and constitutional ideas from one state to another, and the role played by existing cultures and histories in the reception of constitutional provisions and ideas. The book takes a broad view of the term ‘constitutional’. Constitutional ideas can be found outside, as well as within, the law, and the implications of such movement go beyond it.