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Courting conflict : the Israeli military court system in the West Bank and Gaza / Lisa Hajjar.
LIBRA KMM876.7 .H35 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hajjar, Lisa, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military courts--West Bank.
- Military courts.
- Military courts--Gaza Strip.
- War and emergency powers--Israel.
- War and emergency powers.
- Rule of law--Israel.
- Rule of law.
- Palestinian Arabs--Civil rights.
- Palestinian Arabs.
- Israel-Arab War, 1967--Occupied territories.
- Israel-Arab War, 1967.
- Israel.
- Gaza Strip.
- West Bank.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 312 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- This authoritative book provides a rare look at Israel's military court system, an institution that lies both figuratively and literally at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Lisa Hajjar has conducted in-depth interviews with dozens of Israelis and Palestinians-including judges, prosecutors, defense lawyers, defendants, and translators-about their experiences and practices to explain how this system functions and how it has affected the conflict.
- Contents:
- A political geography of law and conflict
- Legal discourses and the conflict in Israel/Palestine
- Going to court
- The face and arms of military justice
- The politics of language
- Cause lawyering and national conflict
- Political subjects, legal objects
- A suq of deals.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520241932
- 0520241940
- OCLC:
- 54542994
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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