The Israeli Supreme Court and the Human Rights Revolution: Courts as Agenda Setters

ISBN-13: 9781107012622 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 224 str.

Assaf Meydani

Opis

This book explains the reciprocal relations between the Supreme Court and the Israeli political system.

Recenzje

"The Israeli Supreme Court and the Human Rights Revolution is a marvelous book. Not only will it inform future accounts of this fascinating Court, it will serve as a foundational resource for all work examining the role courts play in their societies."

- Lee Epstein
Provost Professor of Law and Political Science & Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law, University of Southern California

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. The intervention of the Israeli High Court of Justice in government decisions: an empirical, quantitative study with paradoxical results; 3. Law and politics: theoretical aspects; 4. The Supreme Court as a political entrepreneur in the process of institutional change - an analysis based on shared mental models and political entrepreneurship; 5. Israeli public law; 6. Israel in light of structural and cultural variables; 7. The Supreme Court and the political system in light of social and political processes in Israel during 1948–99; 8. The struggle for a new conservative constitutional court (2000): redefining the guarantor of human rights in Israel - the role of the Israeli Supreme Court; 9. The rule of 'who governs' as electoral capital (1999–2007): the Supreme Court as an agenda setter in Israel; 10. The Supreme Court of Israel as an agenda setter: three cases; 11. On law, society and policy design - towards a reform in the relationship between the High Court of Justice and the Knesset; 12. Conclusion and normative implications.