The Israeli Supreme Court Project at Cardozo invites you to

Constitutional Conflicts and the Judicial Role in Comparative Perspective

Sunday, May 17, 2015 | 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. Monday, May 18, 2015 | 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law | Jacob Burns Moot Court Room 55 Fifth Avenue (at 12th Street) | New York, NY 10003

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Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law | Yeshiva University Constitutional Conflicts and the Judicial Role in Comparative Perspective

This conference will explore the Israeli Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on complex and challenging questions facing open and multi-cultural societies everywhere. Because these issues are salient in, but by no means peculiar to, Israel, a comparative perspective will enrich our understanding of how such issues are, and might be, dealt with in other democratic societies.

Panels will address the general question of the value and challenges of comparative legal study, differing conceptions of the role of the judiciary and doctrines of justiciability, and substantive areas of current controversy, including the role of the courts in overseeing national security and intelligence gathering; immigration, asylum, and treatment and status of refugees; and religion in the modern nation-state.

Full details may be found at versa.cardozo.yu.edu/events/2015conference.

The conference is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please email [email protected] with your name, affiliation, and contact information.

The Israeli Supreme Court Project at Cardozo

This conference marks the launch of the Israeli Supreme Court Project at Cardozo Law (ISCP). Intended to both inform and engage constitutional scholars, lawyers, and judges in democracies around the world, the ISCP is a center of study and discussion of the decisions of the Israeli Supreme Court, one of the great judicial bodies of the world and a court at the forefront of dealing with issues at the core of what it means to be a democratic society.

The central undertaking of the ISCP is the translation into English and dissemination of key opinions of the Israeli Supreme Court. In this, the Project is continuing, and will expand on, two decades of work and over 200 translations by the Friends of the Library of the Supreme Court of Israel. Translated opinions, other relevant material about the Court, and more information about the ISCP can all be found on the Project’s website, VERSA, at versa.cardozo.yu.edu.

This conference, as well as the other work of the ISCP, are made possible by essential support from the David Berg Foundation, which is gratefully acknowledged. Sunday, May 17, 2015 2:30–3 p.m. Registration and Coffee

3–3:15 p.m. Welcoming Remarks Dean Matthew Diller (Cardozo School of Law) President Emeritus Asher Dan Grunis (Israeli Supreme Court) 3:15–4:45 p.m. The Comparative Project Panelists: William Ewald (University of Pennsylvania Law School); Amnon Reichman (University of Haifa Faculty of Law); Michel Rosenfeld (Cardozo School of Law); Adam Shinar (Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya) 5–6 p.m. Roundtable Discussion President Naor; President Emeritus Grunis; Justice Barak-Erez; Leon Wieseltier (Harvard Law School); Suzanne Stone (Cardozo School of Law); Michael Herz (Cardozo School of Law)

Monday, May 18, 2015 8:30–9 a.m. Registration and Coffee

9–10:30 a.m. The Role of the Judiciary in Comparative Perspective Panelists: Justice Daphne Barak-Erez (Israeli Supreme Court); Yoav Dotan (Hebrew University Law Faculty); Barak Medina (Hebrew University Law Faculty); Mark Tushnet (Harvard Law School) 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Judicial Oversight of National Security and Intelligence Gathering Panelists: Oren Gross (University of Minnesota Law School); Deborah Pearlstein (Cardozo School of Law); Sam Rascoff (NYU Law School); Steve Vladeck (American University Washington College of Law)

12:30–1:30 p.m. Lunch (Lunch will be provided for all attendees.) 1:30–3 p.m. Immigration, Asylum, and the Treatment and Status of Refugees Panelists: Michael Kagan (UNLV School of Law); Tally Kritzman-Amir (The College of Law and Business [Israel]); Audrey Macklin (University of Toronto Law School); Reuven Ziegler (University of Reading) 3:15–4:45 p.m. Religion in the Modern Nation-State Panelists: Ori Aronson (Bar-Ilan Faculty of Law); Leora Batnitzky (Princeton University); Jeremy Kessler (Columbia Law School [as of 7/1/15]); Pnina Lahav (Boston University Law School) 4:45–5 p.m. Concluding Remarks President Miriam Naor (Israeli Supreme Court) Suzanne Stone (Cardozo School of Law) 5–6 p.m. Reception Israeli Supreme Court Project Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Jacob Burns Institute for Advanced Legal Studies

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