Supreme Court of Israel President Aharon Barak to receive honorary degree from York U.

TORONTO, June 14, 2000 -- Supreme Court of Israel President Aharon Barak will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from York University, Fri. June 16.

Barak, who has had a long and distinguished legal career, won the International Association of Judges' highest honour (the International Justice in the World prize) in 1999 for his role in safeguarding human rights and freedom in the Israeli judiciary. Barak served as dean of the Law School at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1974, Attorney General of the State of Israel 1975-1978, Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel in 1978, deputy president of the Supreme Court of Israel in 1993, and president of the Supreme Court of Israel in 1995. Barak became a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987, and received honorary degrees from Yale and Oxford in 1999.

Barak will receive his honorary Doctor of Laws degree and address convocation during York University's Osgoode Hall Law School convocation ceremonies, Fri., June 16, 2:30 p.m., at York's Keele Campus, in the convocation tent, located east of the Centre for Film and Theatre, 4700 Keele St.

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