Law & Social Change - Volume 16

Law & Social Change - Volume 16, 2025

The Reasonableness Standard in Israeli Law

Table of Contents:

Bar Ovadia, Roni Shaked, Shani Stiller

Introduction

[Abstract – English] [Full Text – Hebrew]

Barak Medina and Ilan Saban

The Knesset’s Power to Set the “Rules of the Game”

[Abstract – English] [Full Text – Hebrew]

Ronen Avraham and Shahar Lifshitz

Supreme Court Rulings on Nationality versus Reasonableness – Differences and Future Perspectives

[Abstract – English] [Full Text – Hebrew]

Moshe Cohen-Eliya

The Sociology and Epistemology of the Constitutional Crisis: Reasonableness and the Culture of Justification

[Abstract – English] [Full Text – Hebrew]

Yaacov Ben-Shemesh

The Extreme Unreasonableness of the Reasonableness Case

[Abstract – English] [Full Text – Hebrew]

Ronit Levine-Schnur and Lior Nawi

Conservative but Activist Judicial Interpretation: The Collapse of the Prejudicial Labels in the Ruling Concerning the Constitutional Amendment Abolishing the Unreasonableness Doctrine

[Abstract – English] [Full Text – Hebrew]

Raphael Bitton

On the Israeli Doctrine of Reasonableness as a Tool for Establishing Judicial Supremacy

[Abstract – English] [Full Text – Hebrew]

Yehudit Dori-Deston

Give the Benefit of the Doubt: Between the Death Penalty and Demjanjuk’s Acquittal Due to Reasonable Doubt

[Abstract – English] [Full Text – Hebrew]

Moran Svorai

On the Ground of Reasonableness in Labor Law

[Abstract – English] [Full Text – Hebrew]

Yuval Livnat

Reasonable Compassion: Humanitarian Status for Aliens in Israel

[Abstract – English] [Full Text – Hebrew]