Gavison, Ruth (1945- ), Haim H. Cohn Professor of Human Rights Law at Hebrew University Law Faculty. Born in Jerusalem. Received an LLB (cum laude) in 1969, LLM (summa cum laude) in 1971, and BA in economics and philosophy (1970), all from Hebrew ...

Bi annual report of the activities of the Haim Cohn Chaor of Human Rights, 2003-2005

This article is a synopsis of a monograph which will be published shortly (in Hebrew) by the Harry Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law. I dedicate it to Professor Tedeschi because he was the one who triggered it ten years...

A Reprint From "Israeli Reports To the 10th Intl. Congress of Comp. Law": "The definition of "privacy" is notoriously elusive.1 The difficulties stem from various sources, and may be found on many levels. The usage of the term is loose, and its bo...

Israel is among the few countries in the world that do not have a formal, written Constitution or an entrenched Bill of Rights. The question of whether Israel should have an entrenched Bill of Rights has always been shrouded in controversy, center...

Featuring: Ruth Gavison, Alon Harel, Ron Harris, Orit Kamir, Claude Klein, Barak Medina, Frances Raday and Edna Ullmann-Margalit. Participants in the roundtable responded to the following questions:

"Israel is a country where constitutional debates center not on the questions whether it should have a constitution and what should be in it but on whether it has one. This undesirable and anomalous situation results from the fact that constitutio...

Professor Ze'ev Sternhell recently launched a scathing attack on both the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order), which restricts immigration to Israel by residents of the Palestinian territories even if they have Israeli spouses,...

The struggle between the Supreme Court and Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann seems to have entered a new phase. Not only do we hear Chief Justice Dorit Beinisch lash out against the minister, but her predecessor as chief justice, Aharon Barak, has...

Regulating days of rest by choosing as the shared day of rest the day identified as day of rest and worship by the hegemonic religion is not a matter of religious coercion and is not even a matter of human rights. The issue should be decided by th...

On Pessah eve, Jerusalem's haredi mayor, Uri Lupoliansky, sent out letters to food vendors throughout the capital, including those who regularly sell non-kosher food, urging them not to sell hametz (unleavened products).

In her article "The right and the return" (Ha'aretz, Oct. 3), Ruth Gavison discusses what is again becoming the watershed in the interrupted dialogue between the Palestinians and Israel. At issue are historical rights, and in this case Israel's un...

Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann and Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch reportedly did not discuss the list of candidates to fill the five vacancies on the 15-person court during their two-hour meeting on Tuesday.

In a region dominated by Arab dictatorships hostile to its existence, what chance does Israel have to preserve anything recognizable as democracy toward its large Arab minority? Hebrew University Professor Ruth Gavison expressed a cautious optimis...

CHANGE - “Hamas must be allowed to participate in the elections, but they must correct positions” - PLAN - “Sharon’s project reflects the interest of Israelis to find an end to the conflict”

A fascinating panel of leading Jewish intellectuals addressed AIPAC Policy Conference delegates on the changing face of Zionism and the evolution of Israel's place in the world. Panelists: Natan Sharansky, human rights activist; Ruth Gavison, H...

Haifa, Israel - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert managed to hang on to power by his nails last week, after persuading the Labor Party to drop a bill to dissolve parliament just hours before the scheduled vote.

Laura Milo, the 20-year-old woman who refuses to serve in the army because of her opposition to Israel's presence in the West Bank and Gaza, returned to serve a 14-day jail sentence two weeks after the High Court of Justice rejected her petition t...

Now that Israel has completed its evacuation of settlements in Gaza and the northern West Bank, many uncertainties that plagued us for the past several months have been resolved. The Israeli government showed that it could successfully implement i...

The text is a short article prepared as the basis for a lecture by Gavison at Aipacmeeting on the 22th of May 2005. The attached file contains the main points of the lecture.

Ruth Gavison's fiery temperament is known far and wide. In academic circles there are some who describe it as "the dictionary definition of the total opposite of a judge's temperament." "She is a very unpleasant person," says a veteran attorney.

This book’s origins lie in three lectures delivered in Jerusalem in June 1996, just after the elections that brought Benjamin Netanyahu to power, a bare half year after the traumatic assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. The issues discussed in this boo...

Regina Thomas didn't win her long-shot race against Congress' most Bush-supporting Democrat. Nor was it close. As I write this, the Georgia Secretary of State's site shows Regina with 24% and Barrow with 76%-- exactly what Blue America's pollster ...

The Judicial Appointments Committee is due to choose three new Supreme Court justices today. The selection has already been delayed for a long time, with the result that the court has been below its normal complement of 15 justices.