Rabbi Marshall Meyer Great Issues Lecture on Social Justice

The Honorable Aharon Barak, President of the Supreme Court of Israel (1995-2006)

Human Dignity: A Constitutional Value and Constitutional Right

Monday, Sept 28   |    4:30pm  |    Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall  |   Free and open to all

 “[Aharon Barak] is the judge or justice in my lifetime whom, I think, best represents and has best advanced the values of democracy and human rights, of the rule of law and of justice.”

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan

Read the Dartmouth Now article here. 

Aharon Barak has been acclaimed as one of the greatest jurists alive today. In his lecture, Justice Barak will discuss the origins of the notion of human dignity, tracing the concept through classical antiquity, the great world religions and philosophy as well as its incorporation into modern constitutional law. The discussion will further explore how the notion of human dignity plays a role as a foundation for constitutional rights and as a value for interpreting those rights. He also will address a range of contemporary issues involving human dignity and questions of law. 

Aharon Barak was President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1995 to 2006. Prior to that, he served as a Justice on the Supreme Court (1978–95), and as the Attorney General of Israel (1975–78). He currently teaches at the Radzyner School of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel and is a Visiting Professor at Yale University School of Law and at the University of Toronto School of Law. 

The event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and the Tucker Center. For further information, call 603-646-2023