UID:
kobvindex_HPB743199606
Format:
1 online resource (393 pages).
ISBN:
9780472024926
,
0472024922
,
1282444727
,
9781282444720
,
9786612444722
,
661244472X
Series Statement:
Law, Meaning, And Violence
Content:
Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic? Transformative Justice, Leora Bilsky's landmark study of Israeli political trials, poses this deceptively simple question. The four trials that she analyzes focus on identity, the nature of pluralism, human rights, and the rule of law-issues whose importance extends far beyond Israel's borders. Drawing on the latest work in philosophy, law, history, and rhetoric, Bilsky exposes the many narratives that compete in a political trial and demonstrates how Israel's history of social and ideological conflicts in the courtroom offers us a rare opportunity to understand the meaning of political trials. The result is a bold new perspective on the politics of justice and its complex relationship to the values of liberalism. Leora Bilsky is Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University.
Note:
Performing the past : the role of the political lawyer -- From Faust to Kastner : the judge as storyteller -- The poet's countertrial -- A tale of two narratives -- Reflective judgment and the spectacle of justice -- Social criticism in the shadow of a transformative trial -- Between ordinary politics and transformative politics -- "A Jewish and democratic state" reconsidered.
,
English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 047203037X
Language:
English
