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Judicial Independence, Democracy and Human Rights

Speech given at the Minerva Center for Human Rights, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9 April 2018

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2019

Rosalie Silberman Abella
Rosalie Silberman Abella*
Affiliation:
Supreme Court of Canada.
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Extract

These words come at what I see as an important historic juncture. It is 70 years since Israel was born, 70 years since the values in the declaration of independence were articulated. It is also the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Genocide Conventions, and the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht. All of these, and the fact that we observe Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday, form the backdrop to this lecture on judicial independence.

Keywords

democracyindependence of the judiciaryprotection of rightslimits of majoritarianism
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Lectures
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Israel Law Review , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , March 2019 , pp. 99 - 102
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2019 

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Footnotes

This lecture was first published in the Times of Israel on 19 April 2018, http://www.timesofisrael.com/without-an-independent-judiciary-israels-cherished-democracy-will-be-at-risk.