American Influence on Israel\u27s Jurisprudence of Free Speech

This is a study of the role played by judicial development of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution in shaping the jurisprudence of free speech in Israel - a country without a bill of rights. Rivalry and contrast between opposing modes of legal thought, judicial styles, doctrines, and finally, models of democracy within Israel\u27s Supreme Court are major themes. Most of the adversarial elements reflect competing ideas in the intellectual history of American free speech law. Thus, the tension within Israel\u27s Supreme Court reflects the tension between American free speech jurisprudence as it now is and as it was in the early decades of the twentieth century