The Undue Influence of Israel's Supreme Court with Simcha D. Rothman

Description

Since the 1980s, the speaker will assert, Israel’s Supreme Court has increasingly yielded undue influence on Israel's diplomatic and security strategy through judicial activism - undue interference in areas outside its proper purview. The Israeli public, Rothman suggests, is now becoming aware of this complex relation between appointed and elected officials. There are increasing calls for change. How does such activism threaten a proper separation of powers in the government and what needs to be done to fix it? (This is one of two planned talks which will give both sides of this issue.)