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Foundations of civil and political rights in Israel and the occupied territories

by Yvonne Schmidt
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783638944502
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Grin Verlag
  • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 636
  • Original Price: USD 74.9
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 821 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): International

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2001 in the subject Law - Comparative Legal Systems, Comparative Law, grade: Sehr Gut, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: This work intends to show how civil and political rights in Israel and the Occupied Territories are regulated, which normative standards and spiritual sources nourish them, and how written and unwritten principles are applied and interpreted by the Supreme Court of Israel in pursuance of its self-imposed duty to safeguard the individual's rights and freedoms. The legal system of Israel reflects unresolved conflicts, ambiguities of the state and difficulties connected with the process of nation-building as well as dilemmas concerning the ethnic and cultural identity of the population. From 1517 until 1917 Palestine was ruled by the Turks as part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1917 British troops conquered the territory and in 1922 the League of Nations granted to Great Britain the Mandate over Palestine. Following the establishment of the state of Israel in Palestine on 14 May 1948 a large number of British mandatory legislation was absorbed into Israel's legal system. This had and still has far-reaching, restrictive implications for the areas of administrative law and the field of human rights and freedoms. The British mandatory legislation includes security legislation - such as the Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945 - which empowers military commanders as well as the entirely executive branch of the government to impose severe restrictions on fundamental rights and freedoms. Despite the enactment of two basic laws on human rights in 1992 many areas, such as personal freedom, freedom of speech and the right of association and assembly are still regulated mainly by British colonial legislation that was never revoked after the establishment of the state of Israel. Since 1948 a permanent state of emergency is in force in Israel. This entitles the government to apply t

Assozierte Univ.-Prof. Dr. Yvonne Karimi-Schmidt hält eine venia docendi im Fach "Völkerrecht und Recht der Internationalen Organisationen" an der Universität Graz. Sie lehrt und forscht seit vielen Jahren vor allem zu völkerrechtlichen Fragen des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens sowie im Bereich des Umweltvölkerrechts einschließlich des internationalen Weltraumrechts. Sie ist Mitglied der American Society of International Law (ASIL, der European Society of International Law (ESIL)und Mitglied des Österreichischen Völkerrechtstages sowie des European Center for Space Law (ECSL). Weiter ist sie Sub Points-Vorsitzende des National Point of Contact (NPOC) Austria an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz.

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