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Law and Pluralism

[RG #97] Law and Pluralism

March 1 - August 31, 2004

Organizer:

Alon Harel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Our research group will explore the following topics:

  • The religious aspects of legal systems.
  • Conceptions of secularism, the specificity of Indian secularism, and the extent to which secularism might be considered a Western, Christian doctrine.
  • Global justice, and caution in the attempts to extend the principles of distributive justice to the global sphere.
  • Establishing universal features of criminal law that would be applied in the International Criminal Court and other international tribunals.
  • Issues of political import and relevance to Israeli society.
  • The relations between values and rights in the constitutional context.
  • An analysis of the later drafts of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, drafted over the months April and May of 1948.

 

2003-2004 Research Groups

Members

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Lior Barshack

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IDC Herzliya
Lior is a professor at the Radyzner School of Law, IDC Herzliya. His research interests are: religious aspects of the legal system; relations between law, kinship and psychoanalysis; and constitutional theory.
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Rajeev Bhargava

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University of Delhi
Rajeev is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Delhi University. His research interests are: nature and ethics of political secularism; reconciliation between communities in deeply divided societies.
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George P. Fletcher

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Columbia Law School
George is a professor at Columbia Law School, USA. His research interests are criminal law, torts, comparative law, and legal philosophy.
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Chaim Gans

FELLOW
Tel Aviv University
Chaim is a professor in the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. His research interests are legal theory, political philosophy, philosophical analysis of public affairs, and nationalism.
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Alon Harel

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alon Harel is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality.
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David Heyd

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
David is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are ethics, political philosophy, and bioethics.
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Yoram Shachar

FELLOW
IDC Herzliya
Yoram is a professor in the Radzyner School of Law at IDC Herzliya. His research interests are criminal law, the Israeli Supreme Court, the Israel Declaration of Independence, and comparative law.
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Jeff Spinner-Halev

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University of Nebraska
Jeff is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nebraska. His research interests are: liberal and democratic theory and cultural pluralism; democracy and pluralism in a comparative approach.