Awards and Honors
- In 1975, Barak was awarded the Israel Prize, in jurisprudence.
- In 1987, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- In 2003, he received Honorary Degrees from Brandeis University.
- In 2006, he received the Justice Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation for "outstanding courage and principle who has devoted his life to the promotion of justice and the just rule of law."
- In 2007, he received Honorary Degrees from Columbia University.
In 2005, he was voted the 39th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.
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