As the first draft laws comprising Israel’s new government’s judicial reform start passing preliminary votes in the Knesset, Israel moves towards a constitutional showdown, in which the Supreme Court mig...

Government legal advisors play an important role in upholding the rule of law in Israel. Planned legal reforms, however, seek to allow the government to ignore their legal opinions and replace senior adv...

Under current Israeli administrative law, the Supreme Court may strike down patently unreasonable decisions of the executive branch, which run contrary to human rights or good governance. The new governm...

Part three in a series examining the sweeping legal and judicial reforms proposed by Israel's new government.

How did the Israeli Supreme Court use its authority after the constitutional revolution of the 1990s, and what do current proposals to limit the power of the Court to exercise judicial review over Knesse...

Protests from defense lawyers notwithstanding, the Proud Boys jurors do not evince the prejudice required for a change of venue.

Two seemingly unrelated Supreme Court cases up for oral argument in the next few weeks will have important implications for the use of emergency powers by the executive branch—and for the long-term healt...