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This chapter discusses the relationship between the rule of law and innovation, holding that the rule of law protects rights, not interests. Protecting interests is incompatible with market competition and hinders innovation and entrepreneurship. By comparing Great Britain and France during the first and second industrial revolutions, this chapter shows that the protection of rights is related to the rise and fall of a country. Innovation grows out of an ecosystem of free competition. Artificial prohibitions on innovation stifle it.

These words come at what I see as an important historic juncture. It is 70 years since Israel was born, 70 years since the values in the declaration of independence were articulated. It is also the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Genocide Conventions, and the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht. All of these, and the fact that we observe Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday, form the backdrop to this lecture on judicial independence.

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15 - Protection of Rights versus Protection of Interests

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Judicial Independence, Democracy and Human Rights: Speech given at the Minerva Center for Human Rights, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9 April 2018

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15 - Protection of Rights versus Protection of Interests

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Judicial Independence, Democracy and Human Rights: Speech given at the Minerva Center for Human Rights, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9 April 2018