“We consider ourselves a group. We are a collective. We sit together, we adjudicate together. We are a pluralistic institute . . . of equals.”
These are the words of Aharon Barak...
more“We consider ourselves a group. We are a collective. We sit together, we adjudicate together. We are a pluralistic institute . . . of equals.”
These are the words of Aharon Barak...
moreRemarks at a Conference Marking the Retirement of President Grunis
Deputy President Emeritus Eliezer Rivlin
June 21, 2015
Translated by Orly Rachmilovitz...
moreThe Role of the Judiciary in Comparative Perspective: A Synopsis of Presentations from Panel Two of the ISCP's inaugural conference, Constitutional Conflicts...
moreThe Comparative Project: A Synopsis of Presentations from Panel One of the ISCP's inaugural conference, Constitutional Conflicts and the Judicial Role in...
moreSwearing-in Ceremony for President of the Supreme Court, Justice Miriam Naor, and Farewell to President of the Supreme Court, President Asher Grunis
The President’s Residence, January 15, 2015
... moreThe recent retirement of President Asher Grunis would probably not be viewed by the legal community in Israel as the end of an era in the history of the Supreme Court. Justice Grunis has always been considered a sophisticated and...
moreOne of the recent squabbles in Israeli politics was triggered by the Prime Minister’s decision to remove two of the judges on the panel that had been appointed to elect the winner of the prestigious Israel Prize for literature. Netanyahu...
moreDialogue is a favorite metaphor of constitutional designers and constitutional thinkers in the age of deliberative democracy. The idea that constitutional interpretation can take place through a communicative process – one in which...
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