The Codification of Civil Law and the Law of Torts

Abstract

From the establishment of the State until the present day, two quiet “revolutions” have occurred in Israeli law — thefirstin the area of public law, and thesecondin the area of private law. In public law we have witnessed the incorporation of a functional constitution — partly in the form of the Basic Laws, prescribed by the Knesset as constitutive authority; and partly through the consolidation of human rights, the handiwork of the Supreme Court engaged in judicial lawmaking. In private law we have witnessed the coalescing of a civil codification — mainly the product of the Knesset as legislative authority with judicial lawmaking “between the cracks” of the legislation.