Professor Mordechai Kremnitzer is Vice President of Research at the Israel Democracy Institute, where he heads the Constitutional Principles, National Security and Democracy, and Arab-Jewish Relations projects. He is Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the Law Faculty at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prof. Kremnitzer has advised the governments of Canada, Hungary, Finland, and Thailand on reform in criminal and public law. Prof. Kremnitzer has published  extensively  in  the  fields  of  criminal,  military,  and  public  law.  His  books deal with judicial activism; the offence of sedition, libel, official secrets, revocation of citizenship, disqualification of parties and lists, targeted killings, offences against the state, the offence of breach of trust, administrative detention, and Israel’s Basic Law: The Army. He also co-authored a proposal for a new section of Israel’s penal code, which has been adopted by the Knesset. In 2012, he was awarded a five-year European Research Council grant for a project entitled “Proportionality in Public Policy: “Towards a Better Balance between Interests and Rights in Decision-Making.”