Law and identity in mandate Palestine / Assaf Likhovski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Likhovski, Assaf.

Series:

Studies in legal history.

Studies in legal history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Palestine--History.

Law.

Nationalism--Palestine--History.

Nationalism.

Palestinian Arabs--Legal status, laws, etc--Palestine--History.

Palestinian Arabs.

Jews--Legal status, laws, etc--Palestine--History.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of the major questions facing the world today is the role of law in shaping identity and in balancing tradition with modernity. In an arid corner of the Mediterranean region in the first decades of the twentieth century, Mandate Palestine was confronting these very issues. Assaf Likhovski examines the legal history of Palestine, showing how law and identity interacted in a complex colonial society in which British rulers and Jewish and Arab subjects lived together. Law in Mandate Palestine was not merely an instrument of power or a method of solving individual disputes, says Likhov

Contents:

Structure, jurisdiction, and identity

Cultural images and the substance of law

Case law and the reflection of identity

Legislation and the representation of identity

Legal education and the formation of identity

Crafting law to fit identity

Limiting identity in law

Arab lawyers and French identity

Arif al-Arif and nomadic identity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798890874627

9780807877180

0807877182

OCLC:

476237037