ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alon Klement

Alon Klement is a professor of law at Tel Aviv University. He writes on various subjects in the fields of Civil Procedure, Law and Economics and Law and Social Norms. He specializes in Class Actions, on which he has published most of his articles.

POSTS BY Alon Klement

17 March 2023

Separating Substance from Procedure: How to Address the Israeli Constitutional Crisis

Many proposals to resolve the current Israeli constitutional crisis have been recently advanced. Yet, most of them are arguably unlikely to bring about a compromise. This is so not because their content cannot be accepted by the parties involved, but because they do not address the substantive concerns of the parties. Israel's constitutional crisis results from the fact that the parties to the conflict shape their proposals concerning the decision-making process in a way that is conducive to their short-term substantive interests. Any proposed solution must therefore separate substantive questions from procedural and institutional ones. Continue reading >>