Human Rights
Days of Worship and Days of Rest
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...
The controversy over Israel's Bill of Rights*
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...
War and the Rule of (International) Law in the 21st century – Lessons from Israel
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.
Neve Shalom/Wahat-el-Salam: A Case study of an Arab-Jewish school in Israel
I take the school in Neve Shalom/Wahat-el-Salam as a test case for the educational implications of one of the most central problems of life in Israel – the relationships between its Jewish and Arab Citizens. I chose this school because it is a uni...
On The Relationship between Civil and Political Rights, and Social and Economic Rights
In this chapter, I propose to deal, summarily, with the relationships between interests usually classified as civil and political (CP) rights, and those usually classified as social and economic (SE) rights.2
New Challenges for International Human Rights
International human rights law is an area where philosophical, moral, political and legal perspectives are intimately interwoven. The ideal of IHRs is extremely powerful. It is no accident that not a single state today challenges the validity of t...
Does Equality Require Integration? A Case Study
The purpose of this paper is to present a test case and to use it as the basis for presenting for discussion one of the most important, and most under-discussed, questions haunting the quest for civic equality in Israel and in many other countries...
Feminism and the Public/Private Distinction
Summary: ... In this paper I want to examine, in some detail, the identification of one such villain: the "public/private distinction." ... For these reasons, my focus on the feminist challenge to the public/private distinction should be relevant ...
Too early for a Requiem: Warren and Brandeis were right about Privacy vs. Free Speech
"One hundred years ago Warren and Brandeis published their classic article, which advocated that the common law could and should grant a remedy for violations of privacy.1 They identified two paradigmatic types of invasions of privacy: The exposur...
Privacy and the Limits of Law
Anyone who studies the law of privacy today may Avell feel a sense of uneasiness. On one hand, there are popular demands for increased protection of privacy, discussions of new threats to privacy, and an intensified interest in the relationship be...
Should We have a "General Right to Privacy" in Israel?
In recent years there has been a growing concern about privacy in many countries. Consequently demands are being made that the law should afford privacy a more adequate protection. This new concern about privacy may seem surprising when we recall ...