Proportionality in Action: Comparative and Empirical Perspectives on the Judicial Practice: 22 (Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law, Series Number 22) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108497586 ISBN 13: 9781108497589

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

A comparative and empirical analysis of proportionality in the case law of six constitutional and supreme courts.

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Mordechai Kremnitzer is Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. He was formerly Dean of the Law School, Vice President for Research at the Israel Democracy Institute and President of the Israeli Press Council. He is a leading Israeli expert on criminal and constitutional law, having headed several governmental committees, including examination of the use of force by the police, civic education and reform of the Israeli Criminal Code.

Talya Steiner is a Ph.D. candidate at the Hebrew University Law School. She holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and an LL.B. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is admitted to the Israeli Bar. She clerked at the Israeli Supreme Court, and has managed the 'Proportionality in Public Policy Project' at the Israel Democracy Institute, a six-year ERC funded project focusing on the balancing between rights and public interests in the policy process from a comparative and empirical perspective. She has previously published on the topic of non-discrimination in employment and equality commissions.

Andrej Lang is a Senior Researcher at the Chair for Public Law, European Law and International Economic Law of the Martin Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany and former research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. He holds a Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin, an LL.M. from New York University and is admitted to the Bar in Berlin and in New York. He was a visiting scholar at Yale Law School and at Harvard Law School and has authored a number of articles in constitutional law.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108497586
• ISBN 13: 9781108497589
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 686
• Editor: Kremnitzer Mordechai, Steiner Talya, Lang Andrej