NEW DATE & LOCATION

Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

Constitutional Roundtable

presents

Aharon Barak

President, Supreme Court of Israel (retired 2006)

The Migration of Proportionality

12:30 - 2:00

Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Classroom A - Flavelle House (lower level)

78 Queen's Park

 

Aharon Barak, born in Lithuania in 1936, is married and the father of four. He studied law, economics and international relations at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Barak received an MA in law in 1958, and a doctorate in 1963.  He was appointed Associate Professor of Law at the Hebrew University in 1968 and became Dean of that Faculty in 1974. From 1975-8, he occupied the position of Attorney General of Israel, an appointed and independent position in the Ministry of Justice overseeing the justice system.  He was appointed to the Supreme Court of Israel in 1978 and became its President in 1995. His retirement from the Court takes place in September 2006 when he reaches the age of mandatory retirement. He has received number prizes and honours, including the Kaplan Prize for excellence in science and research and the Israel Prize in legal sciences as well as numerous honorary degrees. He is the author of a number of books in Hebrew and in English as well as numerous articles on a wide variety of legal topics. His publications in English include Judicial Discretion,  Purposive Interpretation in Law and The Judge in a Democracy, from Princeton University Press. He is presently working on  a book that considers proportionality analysis in a wide range of legal systems.

A light lunch will be provided.

For more workshop information, please contact Professor Lorraine Weinrib at l.weinrib@utoronto.ca or Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.