Constitutional Revolutions

On September 12th, the Israeli Supreme Court, sitting en banc with all fifteen justices for the first time, heard eight petitions...

In this blog, I argue that constitutional savings clauses—provisions that shield outdated laws from judicial review even after a new...

The  United Mizrahi Bank  decision is often compared to  Marbury v. Madison  as Israel’s foundational case for judicial review. Yet the...

Twenty years have passed since the Bank Mizrahi judgment was delivered, and the debate over whether Israel has a formal constitution has...

The Short Answer – It wasn't, now it is…In the process, the Court has adopted and applied the unconstitutional constitutional amendment...

Israel stands on the threshold of a pivotal election, one that may shape the fundamental character of the state. The ongoing political...

Contributor & guest editor of the volume This essay reviews Geoffrey Stone’s “Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from...

Article's full name: The Strategic Common Law Court of Aharon Barak and its Aftermath: On Judicially-led Constitutional Revolutions and...

This comment reviews Bruce Ackerman's We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution. It traces the major innovations suggested in the book...

In this article, we suggest a new interpretation of British constitutional history under which the Parliament Act 1911 is treated as a...

It is often asserted that a formal constitution does not necessitate judicial review over primary legislation. Rather, a country may...

Fifteen years after the Israeli Supreme Court decided in Mizrahi that Israel's "Basic Laws" amount to Israel's formal Constitution and it...

This is yet another manuscript by one of the most interesting and prolific American constitutional law professors that the Critical Legal...

When the world is once again preoccupied with constitution-making, this article challenges us to rethink our most basic conceptions...

This article argues that between 1832 and 1911 the British constitution had operated under popular rather than parliamentary sovereignty....

There is an apparent paradox between Dicey’s treatment of parliamentary sovereignty as the central premise of the British constitution...