Honoring the Work of Aharon Barak
Friday, March 25th, 2011
The University of Tulsa College of Law hosted an impressive group of legal scholars on March 25 at the Tulsa Law Review Symposium Honoring the Work of The Honorable Aharon Barak. The text of the presentations below are available at Volume 47 of the Tulsa Law Review.
Panels include judicial activism vs. judicial restraint (9:00 a.m.), judicial oversight for aggressive interrogation and the treatment of detainees (10:30 a.m.), and transnational jurisprudence (1:30 p.m.). Barak's remarks will begin at 4:00 p.m.
Barak is Professor of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He was a former Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Israel and the former Attorney General of Israel.
His decisions as President of the Supreme Court created an immense impact on Israeli law and the Supreme Court through his championing of a proactive judiciary that has interpreted Israel's Basic Law as its constitution and challenged Knesset laws on that basis. Barak was involved in one of the leading legal issues of the day with his landmark ruling explicitly banning torture during interrogation of terrorism suspects. Legal scholars have praised the practical activism of Israel's Supreme Court for defining the balance between legitimate national security considerations and equally legitimate civil rights in a time of war.
Barak is the 1975 recipient of the Israel Prize in jurisprudence and the 2006 Gruber Justice Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation for his outstanding courage and principle and for devoting his life to the promotion of justice and the just rule of law.
Opening Remarks
Bryce Harp
8:40 am - 8:45 am
Tulsa Law Review editor Bryce Harp opens the Symposium and welcomes guests.
In Memoriam of Professor Zeev Segal
Ariel Bendor
8:45 am - 8:50 am
Panel I: Judicial Activism v. Judicial Restraint Introduction
Robert Butkin
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Panel I: Judicial Activism v. Judicial Restraint: The Relevance of the Judicial Activism vs. Judicial Restraint Discourse
Ariel Bendor
9:05 am - 9:30 am
Panel I: Judicial Activism v. Judicial Restraint: On Aharon Barak's Activist Image
Yigal Mersel
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Panel I: Judicial Activism v. Judicial Restraint: Questions and Answers
Yigal Mersel
Ariel Bendor
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Panel II: Judicial Oversight and Aggressive Interrogation/Detainee Treatment: Introduction
Lyn Entzeroth
10:00 am - 10:05 am
Panel II: Judicial Oversight and Aggressive Interrogation/Detainee Treatment: Imprisonment Without Trial
Owen Fiss
10:05 am - 10:30 am
Panel II: Judicial Oversight and Aggressive Interrogation/Detainee Treatment: To What Extent Is Judicial Intervention against Torture a Hollow Hope: Reflections on the Israeli and American Judicial Experiences since 2001
Sanford Levinson
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Panel II: Judicial Oversight and Aggressive Interrogation/Detainee Treatment: Questions and Answers
Sanford Levinson
Owen Fiss
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Panel III: Transnational Jurisprudence: Transnational Perspectives on the U.S. Transnational Law Controversy
Lorraine E. Weinrib
1:00 pm - 1:35 pm
Panel III: Transnational Jurisprudence: Judicial Conversations and Comparative Law: The Case of Non-Hegemonic Countries
Daphne Barak-Erez
1:35 pm - 1:55 pm
Panel III: Transnational Jurisprudence: Questions and Answers
Daphne Barak-Erez
Lorraine E. Weinrib
1:55 pm - 2:10 pm
Panel IV: Transnational Jurisprudence: Transnational Legal Communication: A Partial Legacy of Supreme Court President Aharon Barak
Markus Wagner
2:10 pm - 2:40 pm
Panel IV: Transnational Jurisprudence: Transnationalizing Courts: A Militant Moderate's Take
Melissa Waters
2:40 pm - 3:15 pm
Panel IV: Transnational Jurisprudence: Questions and Answers
Melissa Waters
Markus Wagner
3:10 pm - 3:20 pm
On Society, Law and Judging
Aharon Barak
3:30 pm - 4:20 pm
Closing Remarks
Bryce Harp
4:30 pm - 4:35 pm