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by Martin Edelman Martin Edelman is a Professor (and chair) of the Political Science Department at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy of the University at Albany. He is the author of Democratic Theories and tbe Constitution and of many articles dealing with American constitutional law and Israel's court systems. In 1987, while at Peking University, Professor Edelman taught the first course on Israeli politics in the People's Republic of China. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of liverpool and Tel Aviv University. Professor Edelman is currently the President/Convenor of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political Science Association. Public policy is all too frequently debated and resolved in the total absence of empirical evidence. Judicial policy-making is rarely an exception to this social science truism. Even "analyses" of such vital matters as human rights proceed on the basis of unexamined ideological premises. Take, for example, to protect the rights of minority religious sects against the hostility and/or indifference of the majority. In the United States it is universally assumed, by judges and commentators alike, that the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause provides that essential protection. Yet historically
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies – Purdue University Press
Published: Oct 3, 1993
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