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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777607903321

Autore

Likhovski Assaf

Titolo

Law and identity in mandate Palestine [[electronic resource] /] / Assaf Likhovski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

979-88-908746-2-7

0-8078-7718-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 p.)

Collana

Studies in legal history

Disciplina

349.5694

Soggetti

Law - History

Nationalism - History

Palestinian Arabs - Legal status, laws, etc - History

Jews - Legal status, laws, etc - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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