Tikvah Scholar
Academic Year 2011-2012
Arie Rosen
Arie Rosen is a J.S.D. candidate at New York University School of Law, concentrating on legal and political philosophy. He is writing his doctoral dissertation on the relationship between models of legal authority and the question of the concept of law, under the supervision of Professor Jeremy Waldron.
Arie completed his LL.M. at New York University School of Law as an Arthur T. Vanderbilt scholar, and received the George Colin Award for distinction in the LL.M. program. He received his LL.B. magna cum laude from Tel Aviv University, where he also earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy summa cum laude. He has been a member of the Israel Bar since 2008.
During his studies in Tel Aviv, Arie served as the editor of the Tel Aviv University Law Review, and as a research assistant in the fields of economic analysis of law, corporations and torts. After his graduation, Arie also served as a teaching assistant in a civil litigation workshop and in an introductory course in jurisprudence.
Research
Judicial Practices in Conflicted Societies:
Considerations of Value and Authority
In my proposed research, I will explore the position of judges in societies ridden with moral and political disagreement. The project starts off by investigating some of the stories we tell ourselves about judges and their role in political system, and then moves on to examine a prominent sub-set of these stories, designating a non-legislative, interpretative role to judges.
Given this model of judicial authority, I consider different models for understanding the role of the judiciary in the interpretative application of law. These different models are subsequently examined in light of the role of political institutions in modern pluralist states. The core problem discussed is the need, on the one hand, to employ considerations of deontological and axiological morality, and, on the other hand, a need to maintain the interpretative authority of the court vis-à-vis the entirety of the population.
