At its foundation, Israel adopted permissive constitutional arrangements that avoided controversial decisions on contentious identity-related issues. Over the decades, the permissive approach was partly replaced by more decisive formal constitutional principles. What lessons can be drawn from Israel's experience regarding the long-term consequences and durability of permissive constitutions, particularly in the context of the country's current social, constitutional, and geopolitical conflicts?

Hanna Lerner is Professor of Political Science and head of the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University and Visiting Researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch in October 2024.

Her research focuses on comparative constitution making, on religion and democracy, and on global justice and global governance especially around the issue of international labor rights in transnational supply chains. She is the author of Making Constitutions in Deeply Divided Societies (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and editor of Global Justice and International Labour rights (with Yossi Dahan and Faina Milman-Sivan, Cambridge University Press, 2016), Constitution Writing, Religion and Democracy (with Asli Bali, Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Comparative Constitution Making (with David Landau, Edward Elgar 2019).  In 2014 she co-convened a research group on constitutionalism, religion and human rights at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University, Germany.

This Conference was held at the Centre Marc Bloch on October 14th 2024, as part of our cycle: Israel, Palestine and European Societies

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