Foundations of Rights Jurisprudence in Israel: Chief Justice Agranat's Legacy

Authors

Pnina Lahav, Boston University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 1990

ISSN

2047-9336

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Language

en-US

Abstract

"Liberty of the individual is a things of the past, or the future, in Palestine", wrote Bernard Joseph, a distinguished member of Israel's "government in the making" in 1948, shortly before Israel was inaugurated as a sovereign state. Joseph's "present" was the dusk of British rule in Palestine. Draconian Defence (Emergency) Regulations suspended conventional liberties ordinary westerners were accustomed to expect and turned Palestine into a police state.

Comments

Also appeared in 16 Tel Aviv University Law Review 475 (1991). [Hebrew]

Hebrew version attached in additional files.

Recommended Citation

Pnina Lahav, Foundations of Rights Jurisprudence in Israel: Chief Justice Agranat's Legacy , in 24 Israel Law Review 211 (1990).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/2208