The Minerva Center for Human Rights
Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Volume 44 Number 3 2011
UNCONSTITUTIONAL CONStlTUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
Introduction Claude Klein
Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments Aharon Barak
External Review of Constitutional Amendments? International Law as a Norm of Reference Lech Gaiiicki and Zofia A. Gariicki
Old and Protected? On the "SuprarConstitutional" Clause in the Constitution of Norway Eivihd Smith
The Language of Eternity: Judicial Review of the Amending Power in France (or the Absence Thereof) Denis Baranger
The Implications Of "Eternity Clauses": The German Experience Ulrich K. Preuss
The Challenge of Reconciling Constitutional Eternity Clauses with Popular Sovereignty^ Toward Three-Track Democracy in Israel as a Universal Holistic Constitutional System and Theory Sharon Weintal
THE LIONEL COHEN LECTURE
The Judiciary and the Media The Rt Hon The Lord Judge
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Volume 44 Number 3 2011
UNCONSTITUTIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS Introduction Claude Klein 318 Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments Aharon Barak 321 External Review of Constitutional Amendments? International Law as a Norm of Reference Lech Garlicki and Zofia A. Garlicki 343
Old and Protected? On the "Supra-Constitutional" Clause in the Constitution of Norway Eivind Smith 369 The Language of Eternity: Judicial Review of the Amending Power in France (or the Absence Thereof) Denis Baranger 389 The Implications of "Eternity Clauses": The German Experience Ulrich K. Preuss 429 The Challenge of Reconciling Constitutional Eternity Clauses with Popular Sovereignty: Toward Three-Track Democracy in Israel as a Universal Holistic Constitutional System and Theory Sharon Weintal 449
THE LIONEL COHEN LECTURE The Judiciary and the Media The Rt Hon The Lord Judge 499
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Volume 44 Number 3 2011
BOARD OF EDITORS
SIR NIGEL RODLEY YUVAL SHANY Editors-in-Chief
CLAUDE KLEIN Guest Editor
DANNY EVRON YAEL RONEN DANIEL STEPHENS Executive Editor Academic Editor Production Editor
STUDENT EDITORS
HAIM ABRAHAM LITAL CASPER YAEL NAGGAN MORAN ALRIAMI GALIT HELLER RIMONE RABINOVITCH JOSH HERSCH ASAF LUBIN
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
PROF. AHARON BARAK (Former President of the Israeli Supreme Court) PROF. DAPHNE BARAK-EREZ (Tel Aviv University) PROF. ANTONIO CASSESEt (Florence University) PROF. MALCOLM FEELEY (University of California, Berkeley) PROF. JOCHEN FROWEIN (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg) PROF. FRANCOISE HAMPSON (University of Essex) PROF. VlCKI JACKSON (Harvard University) PROF. MICHAEL KARAYANNI (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) PROF. ECKART KLEIN (Potsdam University) PROF. MORDECHAI KREMNITZER (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) PROF. DAVID KRETZMER (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) PROF. FIONNUALA NI-AOLAIN (University of Minnesota and University of Ulster) PROF. FRANCES RADAY (College of Management Academic Studies, Rishon leZion) PROF. WILLIAM SCHABAS (Middlesex University, London; National University, Ireland) PROF. MALCOLM SHAW (Leicester University) PROF. HENRY STEINER (Harvard University)
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