Aharon Barak - Key Legal Doctrines

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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