This article seeks to evaluate Israel's implementation of the international law of occupation in the territories which it came to control after the Six-Day War, from a new perspective. Many scholars have criticized or justified specific Israeli policies by comparing them to specific norms of international law. Contrary to this scholarship, this article addresses the questions at the core of current debates over the implementation of international law: Why has Israel chosen to implement some specific rules of international law and to ignore others? And what caused the changes in Israel's implementation of international law?

Some of the answers to these questions can be found by examining the interests of various institutions involved in the implementation of International law, and the interplay between them. I suggest that in order to understand Israel's initial behavior one must look at the interests, goals and culture of the Israeli army, the IDF, the institution initially responsible for administering the territories. I shall further argue that subsequent changes in policies are a result of the struggle between the IDF and other Israeli institutions attempting to gain influence over the way the territories were controlled.

Debate about the impact of modern technology on copyright law has become polarized—even harsh. Owners, with some justification, contend that copying has become too easy and that strong protections for their assets must be implemented in order to insure the continued production of creative work. Users respond, with some justification, that such strong protections place intolerable constraints on their rights to browse in digital space, of contemporary culture and fairly use copyright works. The form of the debate—with both sides raising valid problems and neither finding an easy solution inside the existing structure of copyright law—suggests a need to rewrite copyright to insure remuneration to copyright owners while still providing easy, cheap access for users.

The most viable method for achieving such a goal is to institute a wide ranging system of levies on all devices and media that make it possible to quickly and easily copy protected copyright subject matter. In return for the payment of levies, owners would be required to allow users undisturbed access to their copyrighted works. This paper uses the sometimes checkered history of American copyright law as a vehicle for discussion of the problems technology presents to contemporary intellectual property law, the need for a levy system, the most significant requirements of a levy system and the nature of objections likely to arise to use of such a system.

In a democratic country an independent justice system plays a major role in protecting human rights and the rule of law. However, an independent judicial system is at risk from a number of factors that derive from outside the sytsem as well as from within. The external dangers facing judicial independence are often discussed; whereas the internal perils that weaken the system as well as judicial independence, are far less known. This article will focus on the danger from within and will discuss the judicial administration's influence on human rights, specifically the right to due process under the law.