Lawyering for the Rule of Law - Government Lawyers and the Rise of Judicial Power in Israel

Informationen zum Autor Yoav Dotan is Edwin A. Goodman Professor of Law and former Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Klappentext A study of the relationship between judicial activism and government lawyers. Zusammenfassung Yoav Dotan examines the role of government lawyers in the rise of judicial activism in Israel and explores the question of judicial mobilization at large. Contains an original! large-scale! quantitative study of around 2!000 court files. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the government's lawyer; 1. The Israeli legal system and the rise of judicial activism in the High Court of Justice; 2. The High Court of Justice Department (HCJD) and the model of lawyering for the rule of law; 3. Litigating for the government; 4. The dilemma of two masters; 5. Sorting things out: government lawyers in transformative litigation; 6. The government lawyer as adjudicator: 'pre-petitions' and the HCJD; Conclusion.

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• Authors: John R. Bowen, Yoav Dotan, Yoav (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Dotan, Dotan Yoav
• Assisted by: John R. Bowen (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.2013
• EAN: 9781107038998
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03899-8
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law; Cambridge Studies in Constitut; Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law; Cambridge Studies in Constitut
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Israel, LAW / Constitutional, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general