Since the second half of the 19th century, public international law has been developing rules regulating the restitution of cultural objects removed from occupied territories during armed conflict. Today it is generally recognized that customary international law forbids pillage. The Protocol to...

The right to food has been recognized in Art. 25(1), Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, and further elaborated in Art. 11(1), International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966 (ICESCR). 1 Art. 11(2), ICESCR, refers also to the right to be free from hunger, which is...

Jewish law, like other religious laws, commands universal application to all Jews. Had all states chosen religious law to apply to marriage and divorce, limping marriages and divorces would have been restricted to persons who are regarded as belonging to several religions (decided from the point...

The legal problems encountered by same-sex spouses in Israeli law are more complicated than those encountered in other democratic, developed countries. This stems from the fact that under Israeli law many areas of family law, first and foremost marriage and divorce, are governed by religious...

This paper studies the coordinating function of the Israeli Private International Law (PIL) rules in matters of succession, drawing comparative perspectives from European states – in particular England, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland – and the European Union (EU), in which, since the...

The study of disgorgement of profits in Israeli law demonstrates the availability of this remedy in nearly all legal areas. The extensive development of this remedy can only be explained in view of Israeli private law being the product of a mixed legal system with special characteristics....