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This book instructively introduces the reader to the basics of
Jewish law. It gives a detailed, cutting-edge analysis of
contemporary public and private law in the State of Israel, as well
as Israel's legal culture, its system of government, and the roles
of its democratic institutions: the executive, parliament, and
judiciary. The book examines issues of Holocaust, law and religion,
constitutionalization, and equality.
This book provides a concise introduction to the basics of Jewish
law. It gives a detailed analysis of contemporary public and
private law in the State of Israel, as well as Israel's legal
culture, its system of government, and the roles of its democratic
institutions: the executive, parliament, and judiciary. The book
examines issues of Holocaust, law and religion,
constitutionalization, and equality. It is the ultimate book for
anyone interested in Israeli Law and its politics. Authors Shimon
Shetreet is the Greenblatt Professor of Public and International
Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is the
President of the International Association of Judicial Independence
and World Peace and heads the International Project of Judicial
Independence. In 2008, the Mt. Scopus Standards of Judicial
Independence were issued under his leadership. Between 1988 and
1996, Professor Shetreet served as a member of the Israeli
Parliament, and was a cabinet minister under Yitzhak Rabin and
Shimon Peres. He was senior deputy mayor of Jerusalem between 1999
and 2003. He was a Judge of the Standard Contract Court and served
as a member of the Chief Justice Landau Commission on the Israeli
Court System. The author and editor of many books on the judiciary,
Professor Shetreet is a member of the Royal Academy of Science and
Arts of Belgium. Rabbi Walter Homolka PhD (King's College London,
1992), PhD (University of Wales Trinity St. David, 2015), DHL
(Hebrew Union College, New York, 2009), is a full professor of
Modern Jewish Thought and the executive director of the School of
Jewish Theology at the University of Potsdam (Germany). The rector
of the Abraham Geiger College (since 2003) is Chairman of the Leo
Baeck Foundation and of the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Scholarship
Foundation in Potsdam. In addition, he has served as the executive
director of the Masorti Zacharias Frankel College since 2013.The
author of "Judisches Eherecht" and other publications on Jewish Law
holds several distinctions: among them the Knight Commander's Cross
of the Austrian Merit Order and the 1st Class Federal Merit Order
of Germany. In 2004, President Jacques Chirac admitted Rabbi
Homolka to the French Legion of Honor.
The second edition of Judges on Trial articulates the rules,
assumptions and practices which shape the culture of independence
of the English judiciary today. Enhanced by interviews with English
judges, legal scholars and professionals, it also outlines the
factors that shape the modern meaning of judicial independence. The
book discusses the contemporary issues of judicial governance,
judicial appointments, the standards of conduct on and off the
bench, the discipline and liability of judges and the relationship
between judges and the media. It is accessible to an international
audience of lawyers, political scientists and judges beyond the
national realm.
The book offers analsys of numerous dimensions regarding the
essential role of judicial independence in democracy, as well as
analsys of basic constitutional principles and contemporary issues
on judicial independence and judicial procces in many
jurisdictions. It offers analsys of international standarts of
judicial independence and judicial ethics.
The second edition of Judges on Trial articulates the rules,
assumptions and practices which shape the culture of independence
of the English judiciary today. Enhanced by interviews with English
judges, legal scholars and professionals, it also outlines the
factors that shape the modern meaning of judicial independence. The
book discusses the contemporary issues of judicial governance,
judicial appointments, the standards of conduct on and off the
bench, the discipline and liability of judges and the relationship
between judges and the media. It is accessible to an international
audience of lawyers, political scientists and judges beyond the
national realm.
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