02955nam 2200637 a 450 991045202900332120200520144314.00-8078-7718-2(CKB)1000000000467144(EBL)413344(OCoLC)476237037(SSID)ssj0000189779(PQKBManifestationID)11182858(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189779(PQKBWorkID)10165973(PQKB)10229391(MiAaPQ)EBC413344(Au-PeEL)EBL413344(CaPaEBR)ebr10273426(CaONFJC)MIL929802(EXLCZ)99100000000046714420051129d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLaw and identity in mandate Palestine[electronic resource] /Assaf LikhovskiChapel Hill, NC University of North Carolina Press20061 online resource (327 p.)Studies in legal historyDescription based upon print version of record.1-4696-1490-1 0-8078-3017-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 LikhovStudies in legal history.LawPalestineHistoryNationalismPalestineHistoryPalestinian ArabsLegal status, laws, etcPalestineHistoryJewsLegal status, laws, etcPalestineHistoryElectronic books.LawHistory.NationalismHistory.Palestinian ArabsLegal status, laws, etc.History.JewsLegal status, laws, etc.History.349.5694Likhovski Assaf881864MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452029003321Law and identity in mandate Palestine1969863UNINA