Israeli Constitution - From Evolution to Revolution

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Chapter One - From the Establishment of Israel until the Revolution


• Chapter Two - The Constitutional Revolution: How Did It Happen?


• Chapter Three - The Revolution after the Revolution


• Chapter Four - Back to the Future


• Chapter Five - Social Rights


• Chapter Six - Balancing and Proportionality


• Chapter Seven - Emergency Powers


• Chapter Eight - Religion and State


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Gideon Sapir is a professor of law at Bar-Ilan University, Israel; a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University; and a senior fellow at the Kohelet think tank. He is also an ordained rabbi. He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law and constitutional theory.

Summary

This book evaluates the development of the Israeli constitution from an unwritten British-style body of law to the declaration of the Basic Laws as the de facto Israeli constitution by the supreme court and on through the present day.

Product details

• Authors: Gideon Sapir, Gideon (Professor of Law Sapir, Sapir Gideon
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.09.2018
• EAN: 9780190680329
• ISBN: 978-0-19-068032-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Israel, LAW / International, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, LAW / Constitutional, International Law, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general