Dr. Sarah Ganty joined Peking University’s School of Transnational Law as Assistant Professor in 2026. She is also a Senior Researcher at the Central Eurpean University in Budapest and Vienna, engaged with the Rule of Law Clinic at the CEU Democracy Institute and a J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School in New Haven (degree expected in 2026). At Yale Sarah served as Co-President of the YLS European Law Association from 2020 to 2025. She was called to the Bar of Brussels in 2013, focusing on constitutional, administrative and refugee and migration law.
Dr. Ganty came to Peking University’s STL following two postdoc fellowships in Belgium, as she won both the Flemish (FWO) and the French-speaking (FNRS) grants, working with Prof. Eva Brems at Ghent University Human Rights Centre and Prof. Olivier de Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, at UCLouvain in Louvain-la-Neuve. She has also held Visiting Professorships at the University of Hong Kong, Central European University in Vienna, Université libre de Bruxelles, and the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis in Brussels, and was a re:constitution Fellow. Sarah held visiting research appointments at the Bonavero Institute (Mansfield College, Oxford), Berkeley Law School and Radboud University Nijmegen, among others. She is a recurrent Visiting Professor at LUISS Guido Carli Faculty of Law in Rome and contributes to the drafting of third-party interventions before the European Court of Human Rights.
Dr. Ganty’s scholarship examines how societal hierarchies and stratifications are maintained and reproduced through law. Her first monograph L’intégration des citoyens européens et des ressortissants de pays tiers en droit de l’UE. Critique d’une intégration choisie, published by Larcier, offers a critical analysis of the concept of “migrants’ integration” in EU law. Her current research explores the concept of merit in law and its role in shaping the distribution of public, economic, and social goods. Sarah is engaged with migration law in its broadest sense, as well as citizenship, non-discrimination, human rights and legal theory. She is particularly interested in questions of poverty and socioeconomic inequality. With a strong background in European law, she also works with European Union legal system and the law of the European Convention on Human Rigths.
Sarah published in the leading journals in her fields of interest, including the Human Rights Law Review, European Law Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, German Law Journal, Columbia Journal of European Law, The Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, International Journal of Law in Context, European Journal of Risk Regulation, Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, as well as Yale Journal of International Law online. She has also contributed scholarship to multiple edited collections and co-edited the Code essential - Droit des Migrations of the Kingdom of Belgium in two volumes (currently in the 2nd edition).
Dr. Ganty’s research, comments and interviews appeared in The New York Times, BBC, CNN, Meduza, La Libre, Le Soir, and other outlets. She is also a regular contributor to Verfassungsblog and Strasbourg Observers.
