A study of the relationship between judicial activism and government lawyers.
Yoav Dotan is Edwin A. Goodman Professor of Law and former Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Introduction: the government's lawyer; 1. The Israeli legal system and the rise of judicial activism in the High Court of Justice; 2. The High Court of Justice Department (HCJD) and the model of lawyering for the rule of law; 3. Litigating for the government; 4. The dilemma of two masters; 5. Sorting things out: government lawyers in transformative litigation; 6. The government lawyer as adjudicator: 'pre-petitions' and the HCJD; Conclusion.