UID:
edocfu_9959238432902883
Format:
1 online resource (327 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
979-88-908746-2-7
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0-8078-7718-2
Series Statement:
Studies in legal history
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4696-1490-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-3017-8
Language:
English
