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Israel’s Pupils’ Rights Law and Its Turbulent Decade of Implementation: Eighty-Six Court Cases

Mon, April 16, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Vancouver Convention Centre, Floor: First Level, East Ballroom C

Abstract

This is a law-review analysis that analyzed 86 court rulings that applied Israel's ten-year-old Pupils' Rights Act, 2000. Congruent with the 2012 meeting theme, it seems that to know what the precedent is, is not enough: understanding the intricacies of rulings, the development of a legal theory among the justices of a high-court can tell us a lot about what law does to the realities of students and teachers. The main finding is that legislation that was initially intended to support individual grievances between pupils and schools that created an unexpected policy discourse on social justice for disenfranchised groups through case law.

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