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The principle of legislative discontinuity following elections is prevalent in democratic systems worldwide. It governs legislative...

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

States compare asylum and immigration policies. The Israeli immigration and asylum regime influenced American law, and was also directly...

I further developed these ideas in the context of secession  in a subsequent project. The prevalent approach suggests that constitutions...

Some constitutions use savings clauses to shield from judicial review laws that have been in force prior to their adoption, thus,...

In the judicial year 2014–2015, the Israeli Supreme Court issued several landmark rulingsspecifically in the  Dirani ,  Zoabi , and ...

Constitutional democracies do not usually tie their choice of proportional election with the need to counterbalance this choice by...

While we tend to think of digital democracy as a positive development, embracing electronic voting may be a risky endeavor for...

The Israeli legislature (the Knesset) applies continuity to pending bills on a regular basis. In spite of changes that occur in the...

Constitutional statutes challenge the traditional dichotomy between regular statutes and constitutional provisions. They are supposedly...

This article explores the oft-neglected relationships between constitution-making (including amendment) mechanisms and constitutional...

Israel's Jewish and democratic character has always posed a great challenge to those seeking to protect and advance secular life in...

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

Scholars traditionally deduce whether judicial review is weak or strong in a given country from the text of constitutional provisions...

Constitutional transition periods present a twilight time between two executives. At such times, the outgoing executive’s authority is...

The principle of legislative discontinuity following elections is prevalent in democratic systems. Legislative discontinuity means that...

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...

As a lame-duck President, Bush signed the Iraqi military accord, sold oil and gas leases on land bordering national parks, and reduced...