Steps Toward Drawing Up a Constitution
A comparative and local view on steps necessary to formulating a Constitution for Israel - The Israel Democracy Institute in conjunction with The Israeli Law Professors' Forum for Democracy
Moderator: Adv. Anat Thon Ashkenazy, Director, Center for Democratic Values and Institutions, Israel Democracy Institute
16:00 – 16:10 Opening Remarks
Prof. Suzie Navot, Vice President of Research, Israel Democracy Institute
Dr. Ronit Levine-Schnur, Senior lecturer at the Harry Radzyner Law School, Reichman University
16:10 – 17:30 A Comparative Look at Drawing up a Constitution
Chair: Dr. Ronit Levine-Schnur
Prof. Amal Jamal, Director, The Walter-Lebach Institute for Jewish-Arab Coexistence,
Tel Aviv University
Prof. Hanni Lerner, Director, The School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Manar Mahmoud, PhD in Political Science, Researcher of Government, Law and Politics
Prof. Yaniv Roznai, Vice-Dean, Harry Radzyner Law School, Reichman University
Prof. David Landau, Mason Ladd Professor, Associate Dean for International Programs,
Florida State University College of Law
Prof. Donald. L. Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science Emeritus, Duke University
Prof. Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law and Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
17:30 – 17:40 - Break
17:40 – 19:00 A Local View on Drawing up a Constitution
Chair: Prof. Suzie Navot
Prof. Barak Medina, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer, Senior Fellow, The Israel Democracy Institute
Prof. Amnon Reichman, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa
Speakers (in alphabetic order)
Prof. Eitan Bar-Siman-Tov, Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan University
Adv. Daphne Benvenisty, Center for Democratic Values and Institutions, Israel Democracy Institute
Prof. Amichai Cohen, Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute
Prof. Zvi Kahane, Ono Academic College
Prof. Ofer Kenig, Research Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute
Prof. Emeritus David Kretzmer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Dr. Guy Lurie, Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute
Dr. Doron Lustig, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Nadiv Mordechay, Researcher, Israel Democracy Institute
Prof. Benny Porat, Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute; Faculty of Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Prof. Gideon Rahat, Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute
Adv. Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz, Director of the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Center for Shared Society, Israel Democracy Institute
Prof. Eli Salzberger, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa
Dr. Eran Shamir-Borer, Director, Center for Security and Democracy, Israel Democracy Institute
Prof. Yuval Shany, Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute
Dr. Assaf Shapira, Director, Political Reform Program, Israel Democracy Institute
The event will be livestreamed on the Israel Democracy Institute website: www.idi.org.il