Jerusalem, 12 November, 2026 (TPS-IL) — The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has secured approximately $2.6 million as part of an $11.1 million European Research Council grant to study how judges help defend democracy.
Prof. Keren Weinshall of the university’s Faculty of Law will join researchers from the universities of Copenhagen, Washington University in St. Louis and Oslo in a six-year project examining 48 supreme and constitutional courts in OECD countries and candidate countries, including Israel. The JUSTGOV project will focus on how individual judges respond to threats to democratic institutions and the conditions that enable courts to safeguard democracy.
