Law and Pluralism

Period of Residence

March 1, 2004

August 31, 2004

The religious aspects of legal systems.
Conceptions of secularism, the specificity of Indian secularism, and the extent to which secularism might be considered a Western, Christian doctrine.
Global justice, and caution in the attempts to extend the principles of distributive justice to the global sphere.
Establishing universal features of criminal law that would be applied in the International Criminal Court and other international tribunals.
Issues of political import and relevance to Israeli society.
The relations between values and rights in the constitutional context.
An analysis of the later drafts of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, drafted over the months April and May of 1948.