The proposed panel will include papers offering reflections on the relationship between the legal categories of citizenship in EU member states and the concept and philosophical notion of citizenship as related to memory and the past, particularly to the most dramatic historical events, such as genocide and expulsion. These reflections will cover the motivations behind...
Tag: <span>Michal Tamir</span>
PRIOR RESTRAINT IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Since the 1930s one of the fundamental First Amendment doctrines has been the rule against prior restraint of speech: there are strict limitations on the constitutionality of preventing expressions, even harmful ones, before they occur. One of the implications of the doctrine is the courts‘ refusal to issue injunctions against speech. The rationale of the...
The Right to Violate Victims‘ Rights – A Constitutional Review
Can criminal justice system‘s officials freely violate crime victims‘ rights, despite the alleged recent ‘victims‘ revolution‘? The constitutional value of provisions protecting officials from criminal or civil ramifications of their failures, limiting civil and criminal accountability and impact, is analyzed in this article. It exists, for example, under US federal law and in Israel, and...