Key Legal Doctrines
- Justiciability
- Judicial discretion
- Reasonability
- Proportionality
- Purposive interpretation
Barak's legal philosophy starts with the belief that "the world is filled with law." This idea portrays law as an all-encompassing framework of human affairs from which no action can ever be immune: Whatever the law does not prohibit, it permits; either way, the law always has its say, on everything.
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