Legally Speaking
Dec. 1, 2011
The John Marshall of Israel
A conversation about torture, the death penalty, and Jewish settlements on the West Bank with Aharon Barak, Israel's most consequential supreme court justice.
There is much debate over the legacy of Aharon Barak. But what is beyond dispute is that no one has had a more profound impact on Israel's highest court than he has. Justice Barak joined the Israeli Supreme Court in 1978 and served as its chief justice from 1995 to 2006. In October, Barak spoke with California Lawyer editor Martin Lasden at Yale University, where he is now a visiting professor of law.
Q. Since we are at Yale, I thought I'd begin by throwing out the phrase...
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