{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox journal | title = Israel Law Review | cover = 180px|alt=Cover | editor = | discipline = Law | abbreviation = Isr. Law Rev. | publisher = Hebrew University's Minerva Center for Human Rights | country = Israel | frequency = Quarterly | history = 1966–present | openaccess = | license = | impact = | impact-year = | website = https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/israel-law-review | link1 = | link1-name = | link2 = | link2-name = | JSTOR = | OCLC = 1754008 | LCCN = | CODEN = | ISSN = 0021-2237 | eISSN = }} The '''''Israel Law Review''''' is the oldest Israeli law journal published in English.<ref>{{cite web |title=Israel Law Review |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/israel-law-review |website=Cambridge |access-date=29 August 2021 |archive-date=29 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829080442/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/israel-law-review |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |url=http://law.huji.ac.il/eng/pirsumim.asp?cat=735 |title=Israel Law Review |publisher=Law.huji.ac.il |access-date=26 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100226013247/http://law.huji.ac.il/eng/pirsumim.asp?cat=735 |archive-date=26 February 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="heinonline1">{{cite web|url=http://heinonline.org/HOL/TitleSummary?index=journals/israel&collection=jou |title=Israel Law Review |publisher=Heinonline.org |access-date=26 June 2010}}</ref> The journal focuses on Israeli law and on issues relevant to Israeli society.<ref name="autogenerated1"/><ref name="heinonline1"/>
==History== The journal was established in January 1966 by the Israeli Law Review Association, under the auspices of senior members of the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.<ref name="heinonline1"/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/99769358.html?dids=99769358:99769358&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jul+08%2C+1993&author=STEPHEN+GOLDSTEIN&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=BRINGING+ISRAELI+LAW+TO+THE+ENGLISH+READER&pqatl=google |title=Bringing Israeli Law To The English Reader |publisher=Pqasb.pqarchiver.com |date=8 July 1993 |access-date=26 June 2010 |first=Stephen |last=Goldstein |archive-date=2 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102181214/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/99769358.html?dids=99769358:99769358&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jul+08,+1993&author=STEPHEN+GOLDSTEIN&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=BRINGING+ISRAELI+LAW+TO+THE+ENGLISH+READER&pqatl=google |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1483180 |title=Studies in Israel Legislative Problems]. Edited by G. Tedeschi and U. Yadin. Volume XVI, Scripta Hierosolymitana. The Magnes Press, 1966. 241 pp. ''Israel Law Review''. Vol. I, Number 1. Executive Editor, A. M. Apelbom. Editorial Board, B. Akzin, S. Ginossar and A. V. Levantin. Israel Law Review Association, under the auspices of the Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. January 1966 |journal=International & Comparative Law Quarterly |publisher=Journals.cambridge.org |date=17 January 2008 |volume=16 |pages=268–269 |doi=10.1093/iclqaj/16.1.268 |access-date=26 June 2010 |archive-date=21 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021123214/http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1483180 |url-status=live |last1=Marsh |first1=Norman S. }}</ref><ref name="autogeneratedil">{{cite web |url=http://www.tau.ac.il/law/history/Lahav-AmericanMoment.pdf |title=The Yigal Arnon & Co. Legal History Workshop |website=Tau.ac.il |access-date=2016-02-11 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220256/http://www.tau.ac.il/law/history/Lahav-AmericanMoment.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> It has been published since 2009 by Cambridge University Press under the management of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Information|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/israel-law-review/information|access-date=2021-05-08|website=Cambridge Core|language=en|archive-date=2018-07-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719233512/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/israel-law-review/information|url-status=live}}</ref> Originally there was consideration given to publishing the journal in French, but the decision was made to publish it in English.<ref name="autogeneratedil"/><ref>{{cite journal|ssrn=1440864 |date=29 July 2009 |title=American Moment[s]: When, How, and Why Did Israeli Law Faculties Come to Resemble Elite U.S. Law Schools?|journal=Theoretical Inquiries in Law|volume= 10|number= 2, Article 13|id=Boston Univ. School of Law Working Paper No. 09-32|first=Pnina |last=Lahav }}</ref> It was peer-reviewed from the outset.<ref name="autogeneratedil"/>
When the journal was established, it became the second law review in Israel, the first being ''Ha-Praklit'' ("''The Attorney''"), which was run by the Israeli Bar and published short practical articles in Hebrew.<ref name="autogeneratedil"/>
At the time of its establishment, Avigdor Levontin was its editor-in-chief.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://digitalnewspapers.libraries.psu.edu/Default/Skins/BasicArch/Client.asp?Skin=BasicArch&&AppName=2&enter=true&BaseHref=DCG/1966/10/26&EntityId=Ar00107 |title=Welcome to ActivePaper |publisher=Digitalnewspapers.libraries.psu.edu |date=26 October 1966 |access-date=26 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403233957/http://digitalnewspapers.libraries.psu.edu/Default/Skins/BasicArch/Client.asp?Skin=BasicArch&&AppName=2&enter=true&BaseHref=DCG%2F1966%2F10%2F26&EntityId=Ar00107 |archive-date=3 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> From 1996 until 2001, its editor was Frances Raday.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/raday-frances |title=Frances Raday |publisher=Jewish Women's Archive |access-date=26 June 2010 |archive-date=10 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100410232350/http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/raday-frances |url-status=live }}</ref> Currently, it is edited by Yuval Shany and Malcolm Shaw.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Editorial board|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/israel-law-review/information/editorial-board|access-date=2021-05-08|website=Cambridge Core|language=en|archive-date=2020-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805143451/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/israel-law-review/information/editorial-board|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Abstracting and indexing== The journal is indexed in LexisNexis,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://w3.nexis.com/sources/scripts/info.pl?222361 |title=LexisNexis |publisher=LexisNexis |date=2 November 1999 |access-date=26 June 2010 |archive-date=1 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120601045638/http://w3.nexis.com/sources/scripts/info.pl?222361 |url-status=live }}</ref> Hein,<ref name="heinonline1"/> and EBSCO databases.<ref name="autogenerated1"/>
==Notable articles== In 1969, Israeli Supreme Court Justice Haim Cohn published an article in the journal, which was reported on by the Associated Press and picked up widely by newspapers, in which he indicated that Jewish officials sought to save Jesus from Roman execution, but he refused to cooperate.<ref>Cornell, George W. (26 September 1969). {{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gaEyAAAAIBAJ&pg=4554,6868110 |title=Scholar says Jesus wouldn't help himself |newspaper=The Miami News }}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}; {{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=St0hAAAAIBAJ&pg=6693,7646504 |title=New View on Trial of Jesus |newspaper=Reading Eagle |access-date=2020-11-30 |archive-date=2022-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320210811/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=St0hAAAAIBAJ&pg=6693%2C7646504 |url-status=live }}; {{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jeUTAAAAIBAJ&pg=4558,5131617 |title=Ancient Execution Has New Conclusion |newspaper=Ocala Star-Banner }}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}; {{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UnwtAAAAIBAJ&pg=4062,352176 |title=Conclusion on Jesus Execution |newspaper=Southeast Missourian |access-date=2020-11-30 |archive-date=2022-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320210812/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UnwtAAAAIBAJ&pg=4062%2C352176 |url-status=live }}; {{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Wg0uAAAAIBAJ&pg=3029,6661710 |title=Judge claims Sanhedrin tried to save Jesus |newspaper=The Gazette (Montreal) |access-date=2020-11-30 |archive-date=2022-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320210851/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Wg0uAAAAIBAJ&pg=3029%2C6661710 |url-status=live }}; {{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=evorAAAAIBAJ&pg=1000,4443539 |title=Did Ancient Jewish Officials Try To Stop Cucifixtion |newspaper=TimesDaily |access-date=2020-11-30 |archive-date=2022-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320210847/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=evorAAAAIBAJ&pg=1000%2C4443539 |url-status=live }}. Associated Press. Retrieved 27 December 2010</ref>
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==External links== *[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=ISR official website]
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