Category: Analysis
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150 Years On: What is the Constitution of Canada?–Part 1 of 3–The Problem of Identification
Editor’s Note: Today we begin a three-day series to mark the 150th anniversary of Confederation in Canada. In three separate posts, Maxime St-Hilaire, Patrick Baud and Éléna S. Drouin offer critical reflections on a provocative question: What is the Constitution of Canada?
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Symposium–Part 7 of 7: Some Concluding Comments: What is the State of Democracy? How to Defend It?
[Editor’s Note: This is the last of 7 parts in our I-CONnect/ICON-S-IL symposium on the subject of “Constitutional Capture in Israel?” The introduction to the symposium is available here.] —Ruth Gavison, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem I welcome the initiative to hold a public discussion of public law issues in present day Israel, and appreciate the…
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Symposium–Part 6 of 7: Is there Constitutional Capture in Israel?
[Editor’s Note: This is the sixth of 7 parts in our I-CONnect/ICON-S-IL symposium on the subject of “Constitutional Capture in Israel?” The introduction to the symposium is available here.] —Iddo Porat, College of Law and Business, Israel In this post I would like to suggest that part of the developments described by participants in this symposium…
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Symposium–Part 5 of 7: The Israeli Liberal Democracy: A Critical Assessment
[Editor’s Note: This is the fifth of 7 parts in our I-CONnect/ICON-S-IL symposium on the subject of “Constitutional Capture in Israel?” The introduction to the symposium is available here.] —Barak Medina, Hebrew University of Jerusalem There is a real concern of an erosion of the Israeli government’s commitment to the ideals of a liberal democracy.
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Symposium–Part 4 of 7: Constitutional Retrogression in Israel
[Editor’s Note: This is the fourth of 7 parts in our I-CONnect/ICON-S-IL symposium on the subject of “Constitutional Capture in Israel?” The introduction to the symposium is available here.] —Nadiv Mordechay, Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Yaniv Roznai, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya There are many similarities between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump.
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Symposium–Part 3 of 7: The Triumph of Israeli Populism
[Editor’s Note: This is the third of 7 parts in our I-CONnect/ICON-S-IL symposium on the subject of “Constitutional Capture in Israel?” The introduction to the symposium is available here.] —Alon Harel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Populism is a very popular word these days.
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Special Symposium–Part 2 of 7: Constitutional Capture in Israel
[Editor’s Note: This is the second of 7 parts in our I-CONnect/ICON-S-IL symposium on the subject of “Constitutional Capture in Israel?” The introduction to the symposium is available here.] —Gila Stopler, College of Law and Business, Israel In recent years the term Constitutional Capture has been used by Jan Werner Muller and others to describe a…
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Introduction to I-CONnect/ICON-S-IL Symposium: Constitutional Capture in Israel?
[Editor’s Note: I-CONnect is pleased to partner with the Israeli Chapter of ICON-S (ICON-S-IL) to feature a special symposium on the subject of “Constitutional Capture in Israel?” Every day this week–from Sunday, August 20 to Saturday, August 26–we will feature a post as part of this symposium.
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Constitutional Fidelity and the Polish Constitution
–Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz, University of Gdańsk, 2017-18 LAPA Fellow, Princeton University, currently Visiting Professor, Radzyner Law School, IDC Herzliya Tread softly because you tread on my dreams –W.B. Yeats, The Cloths of Heaven Recent weeks have seen the biggest mass protests in Poland since 1989.