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Reform & Policy Papers  |  Op-ed in Newspapers  |  Public Talks  |  Media Coverage

Reform & Policy Papers

    • “Conciliatory Political Leadership in Time of Uncertainty.” School of Government, Tel Aviv University (2003). [Hebrew]
    • “The Sociopolitical Legal Status of Israeli Arab-Palestinians.” Report to Prime Minister Ehud Barak and the Or Commission. Beer Sheva University, 2000. Reprinted in; Arabic and Hebrew. With Ronen Shamir, Muchamad Abu-Ramadan, et al. Link to Abstract
    • State Comptroller: Authority and Responsibility. Principles, Institutions in Comparative Perspective, Analysis and Recommendations for Reforms. No. 10. Jerusalem: Israel Institute for Democracy, 1998. with David Nachmias [Hebrew] Link to publisher
    • The Integration of Peripheral Groups into Society and Politics in the Peace Era.With Michael Keren, No. 9. Jerusalem: Israel Institute for Democracy, 1998.[Hebrew] Link to publisher
    • Israel Central Bank: Authority and Responsibility. Principles, Institutions in Comparative Perspective, Analysis and Recommendations for Reforms. No. 8. Jerusalem: Israel Institute for Democracy, 1997. with David Nachmias, [Hebrew] Link to publisher
    • The Attorney General: Authority and Responsibility. Principles, Institutions in Comparative Perspective, Analysis and Recommendations for Reforms. No. 6. Jerusalem: Israel Institute for Democracy, 1997. with David Nachmias, [Hebrew] Link to publisher

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Op-ed in Newspapers

Public Talks

    • “Outlawing Pigs: Culture, Law and Society in Israel,” Comments on Daphne Barak-Erez, Outlawing Pigs in Author-Meets-Reader Law and Society Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany, July, 26th, 2007.
    • “Who is a Jew: Categories, Boundaries, Communities and Citizenship Law.” Conference on Jewish Identities, University of Washington, May 13th-14th, 2007.
    • "The Paradox of Religious Fundamentalist Communities in National Democracies." In Religion and Democratic Culture: The Problems of Violence and the Possibilities of Peace. University of Washington. October, 26th-27th, 2006.
    • "The Zeitgeist of Violence: Can Human Rights Prevent Mass Political Murder?" A roundtable on Daniel Chirot and Clark McCauley, Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006); Jackson School, University of Washington. May 23rd, 2006.
    • “The Legal Political Calculus of Referendums in Democracies.” On the Verge of Critical Decisions. An International Conference. School of Government and Public Policy. Tel Aviv University (2004).
    • “Who is a Terrorist: Legal Complexities, Political Paradoxes and Social Challenges”, Conference on International Law and Anti-Terrorism, Tel-Aviv University, (2002).
    • “Minority Identities, Culture,and Legal Action” Center for the Study of Law and Society, Berkeley University, USA, (1999).
    • “A Transformation From a Military Society to a Civil Society: A Legal-Political Analysis,” Harvard University, Harvard Law School, Boston (March, 1994).
    • “Rally around the Flag,” Berman Center for Jewish Studies, Lehigh University (October 1992).
    • “The Weaknesses of the Israeli Political System: A Political and Legal View,” A Symposium of Jewish-American Jurists, The World Zionist Organization (August 1989).

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Media Coverage

 

 

On the Attorney General's decision not to accuse the Israel President in rape:

On law and Jewish identities:

On Israeli right wing politics

On judicial activism

On judicial nominations

On censorship in the Internet [with Barzilai-Nahon]

On political patriotism

On Freedom of Expression by Gad Barzilai and Shimon Shetreet [eds.]

On the research of Barzilai & Barzilai-Nahon regarding religious fundametalism, law & technology. Media coverage of the new concept of 'cultured technology'.

On adjudication through the Supreme Court

On Political Violence by Gad Barzilai [ed.]

On Gad Barzilai's Communities and Law: Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003)

Attorney General should take into account the interests of the Israeli-Arab-Palestinian minority

On Human Rights by Gad Barzilai [ed.]

On building political coalitions in Israeli politics

Criticism of the Attorney General

On Labor Party politics

On right wing politics in elections

On Political Culture

On Israeli national elections:

On Labor Price politics:

On symbols in politics

On social class and electoral politics in Israel

On split-ticket voting and national elections

Israeli Arab-Palestinians in Israeli elections

On Israeli political parties and ideologies:

On Barzilai's research on courts and public opinion [with Zeev Segal and Efraim Yuchtman-Yaar]

On Barzilai as the Founding First Director of Dan David Prize www.dandavidprize.com

On military objectors

On Israeli citizenship

On the absence of social rights

On criminalization and the Jewish-Arab-Palestinian conflict:

Analysis of Israeli elections 2001

On the debate between Anthony Giddens, President of London School of Economics and Gad Barzilai

On freedom of elections in the military

On Israeli conscientious objectors:

 

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