Israeli Supreme Court begins to Americanize law; it has recently cited the U.S. high court in speech, religion, sexual discrimination cases
Rulings of the Israeli Supreme Court have during the 1990s cited substantial US authority in support of their conclusions and rulings in the area of civil rights provide examples of US law's privileged position. Mindful of the potential harm of hateful speech in the multicultural society of Arabs and Jews and of the analysis of Holocaust history linking the Final Solution with Nazi propagranda, Israeli free speech law started with less tolerance of hateful speech and its shift, under a US influence, is a triumph for individual rights coming at the expense of some communitarian values.
Author: Kramer, Daniel J., Fisher, Eric B.
United States, Israel, Laws, regulations and rules, Freedom of speech, Israeli foreign relations, United States foreign relations, Civil rights
Language issues abound in litigation; translators and interpreters need to know colloquialisms and terms of art
The need for trial lawyers to avoid misunderstandings of their documents by employing translators familiar with colloquialisms and terms of art is discussed. The globalization of business has resulted in many documents written in foreign languages.
Author: Seidenberg, Steve
Translations and translating, Legal documents
Abstracts: Threats of foreign group boycotts of American industry made in response to U.S. government trade policy: illegal anticompetitive activity or protected lobbying under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine?
Abstracts: Responsible republicanism: educating for citizenship. Religious accommodation under Title VII: the burdenless burden