These are the questions that one of the world's foremost judges and legal theorists, Aharon Barak, poses in this book. In fluent prose, Barak sets forth a powerful vision of the role of the judge.

This is easy to establish when the subjective and objective purposes coincide. But when they don't, the relative weight given to each purpose depends on the nature of the text.

An analytical study of human dignity as the humanity of a person, as a constitutional value and a constitutional right.

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 ...

This book offers a comprehensive study of Israeli constitutional law that moves from constitution-making to specific areas of contestation including state/religion relations, national security, social rights, and structural questions of ...

El libro de Aharon Barak Proporcionalidad.

¿Cómo se ejerce la discrecionalidad judicial en los casos difíciles? La tesis de este libro es que la discrecionalidad judicial no es absoluta, sino limitada.

Los ensayos que componen este libro contienen las piezas másimportantes de la obra de Aharon Barak.