Sarah Ganty is also a Postdoctoral Fellow at Université Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, a research affiliate at the Central European University Democracy Institute in Budapest and a scientific collaborator at the ULB. She is also a J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where she serves as President of the Yale Law School European Law Association. In 2013, she was called to the bar of Brussels.

She defended her Ph.D. at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in February 2019. Her first monograph, published by Larcier, focuses on the treatment of non-citizens in European Union law, demonstrating how the concept of integration is increasingly used in EU law to restrict the rights of EU citizens and third-country nationals alike. Sarah holds an LL.M. from Yale Law School (2018), where she was a Fulbright Fellow, and a Master’s degree in Law from UCLouvain (2010). She was a visiting researcher at Berkeley Law School (Spring 2015) and at the Centrum voor migratierecht at Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen (Fall 2014). While at the Bar, Sarah practiced constitutional, administrative, refugee, and immigration law. She also taught social justice, EU law, human rights and anti-discrimination law at CEU in Vienna, LUISS, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis in Brussels. Awarded both Flemish (FWO) and French-speaking (FNRS) National Research Grants in Belgium, Sarah conducts research at UCLouvain under the guidance of Prof. Olivier De Schutter, the UN High Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights. She was previously an FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Human Rights Center at Ghent University Faculty of Law, working with Prof. Eva Brems. This academic year, Sarah is a visiting professor at Hong Kong University and a Research Visitor at the Bonavero Institute at Oxford University.

Sarah’s scholarship aims to unveil how societal hierarchies and stratifications are maintained through law. Specifically, she explores the concept of merit as a proxy for determining how public, economic, and social goods, offices, and legal status are distributed, refining the concept of “Merizenship”, which she theorized. Her primary academic interests include migrants’ law in its broadest sense—encompassing refugee law, immigration law, and integration law—as well as citizenship, anti-discrimination law, human rights law, and legal theory. Sarah is particularly engaged in studying poverty and socioeconomic inequalities. With a strong background in EU law, she is also active in analyzing the EU legal system.

She has published in countless leading outlets, including Human Rights Law Review, The Hague Journal of the Rule of Law, International Journal of Law in Context, European Journal of Risk Regulation, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, as well as Columbia Journal of European Law and Yale Journal of International Law Online. She has also actively contributed scholarship to edited collections.

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