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  • Human Dignity

    The Constitutional Value and the Constitutional Right

    by Aharon Barak ...
    Human dignity is now a central feature of many modern constitutions and international documents. As a constitutional value, human dignity involves a person's free will, autonomy, and ability to write a life story within the framework of society. As a constitutional right, it gives full expression to the value of human dignity, subject to the specific demands of constitutional architecture. This ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Proportionality

    Constitutional Rights and their Limitations

    by Aharon Barak ...
    Series Book 2 - Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
    Having identified proportionality as the main tool for limiting constitutional rights, Aharon Barak explores its four components (proper purpose, rational connection, necessity and proportionality stricto sensu) and discusses the relationships between proportionality and reasonableness and between courts and legislation. He goes on to analyse the concept of deference and to consider the main ... Read more

    $62.39 USD

  • Purposive Interpretation in Law

    Translated by Sari Bashi ...
    by Aharon Barak ...
    This book presents a comprehensive theory of legal interpretation, by a leading judge and legal theorist. Currently, legal philosophers and jurists apply different theories of interpretation to constitutions, statutes, rules, wills, and contracts. Aharon Barak argues that an alternative approach--purposive interpretation--allows jurists and scholars to approach all legal texts in a similar manner ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Judge in a Democracy

    by Aharon Barak ...
    Whether examining election outcomes, the legal status of terrorism suspects, or if (or how) people can be sentenced to death, a judge in a modern democracy assumes a role that raises some of the most contentious political issues of our day. But do judges even have a role beyond deciding the disputes before them under law? What are the criteria for judging the justices who write opinions for the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Dignity Rights

    Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person

    by Erin Daly, Aharon Barak ...
    Series series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
    The right to dignity is now recognized in most of the world's constitutions, and hardly a new constitution is adopted without it. Over the last sixty years, courts in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and North America have developed a robust jurisprudence of dignity on subjects as diverse as health care, imprisonment, privacy, education, culture, the environment, sexuality, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Dignity Rights

    Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person

    by Erin Daly, Aharon Barak ...
    Series series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
    Originally published in 2012, Dignity Rights is the first book to explore the constitutional law of dignity around the world. In it, Erin Daly shows how dignity has come not only to define specific interests like the right to humane treatment or to earn a living wage, but also to protect the basic rights of a person to control his or her own life and to live in society with others. Daly argues ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Dignity Rights

    Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person

    by Erin Daly, Aharon Barak ...
    Series series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
    Originally published in 2012, Dignity Rights is the first book to explore the constitutional law of dignity around the world. In it, Erin Daly shows how dignity has come not only to define specific interests like the right to humane treatment or to earn a living wage, but also to protect the basic rights of a person to control his or her own life and to live in society with others. Daly argues ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Civil–Military Relations in Israel

    Essays in Honor of Stuart A. Cohen

    by Elisheva Rosman-Stollman, Aharon Kampinsky, Oren Barak, Amichai Cohen, Asher Cohen, Ronald Krebs, Yagil Levy, Tamir Libel, Amiram Oren0, Yoram Peri1, Orna Sasson-Levy2, Yehudit Sher3, Bernard Susser4, Eliav Taub5, Arial Vainer6, Eyal Ben-Ari7, Reuven Gal8 ...
    This book, a collection of essays in honor of Stuart Cohen, examines a variety of issues in civil-military relations (CMR) in Israel and abroad. Beyond honoring Cohen’s work, this collection makes a substantial contribution to the field for a number of reasons. First, it brings together prominent scholars from different disciplines in the field, from both Israel and abroad, sketching its ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Israeli Constitutional Law in the Making

    Edited by Professor Gideon Sapir, Daphne Barak-Erez, Professor Aharon Barak ...
    Series series Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law
    In the domain of comparative constitutionalism, Israeli constitutional law is a fascinating case study constituted of many dilemmas. It is moving from the old British tradition of an unwritten constitution and no judicial review of legislation to fully-fledged constitutionalism endorsing judicial review and based on the text of a series of basic laws. At the same time, it is struggling with major ... Read more

    $186.29 USD

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  • Constitutional Law and Precedent

    International Perspectives on Case-Based Reasoning

    Edited by Monika Florczak-Wątor ...
    This collection examines case-based reasoning in constitutional adjudication; that is, how courts decide on constitutional cases by referring to their own prior case law and the case law of other national, foreign, and international courts. Argumentation based on judicial authority is now fundamental to the resolution of constitutional disputes. At the same time, it is the most common form of ... Read more

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  • General Theory of Law and State

    by Hans Kelsen ...
    Widely regarded as the most important legal theorist of the twentieth century, Hans Kelsen is best known for his formulation of the "pure theory of law", - within which the study of international law was his special field of work. The present volume, "General Theory of Law and State", first published in 1945, allowed Kelsen to adjust his pure theory of law to American circumstances after World War ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law

    Edited by Michel Rosenfeld, András Sajó ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The field of comparative constitutional law has grown immensely over the past couple of decades. Once a minor and obscure adjunct to the field of domestic constitutional law, comparative constitutional law has now moved front and centre. Driven by the global spread of democratic government and the expansion of international human rights law, the prominence and visibility of the field, among judges ... Read more

    $71.99 USD