LEADER 02948nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910777607903321 005 20230516193547.0 010 $a979-88-908746-2-7 010 $a0-8078-7718-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000467144 035 $a(EBL)413344 035 $a(OCoLC)476237037 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000189779 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11182858 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189779 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10165973 035 $a(PQKB)10229391 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL413344 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10273426 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL929802 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC413344 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000467144 100 $a20051129d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLaw and identity in mandate Palestine$b[electronic resource] /$fAssaf Likhovski 210 $aChapel Hill, NC $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (327 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in legal history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4696-1490-1 311 $a0-8078-3017-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aStructure, 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. 330 $aOne of the major questions facing the world today is the role of law in shaping identity and in balancing tradition with modernity. In an arid corner of the Mediterranean region in the first decades of the twentieth century, Mandate Palestine was confronting these very issues. Assaf Likhovski examines the legal history of Palestine, showing how law and identity interacted in a complex colonial society in which British rulers and Jewish and Arab subjects lived together. Law in Mandate Palestine was not merely an instrument of power or a method of solving individual disputes, says Likhov 410 0$aStudies in legal history. 606 $aLaw$xHistory$9lat$2NLI 606 $aNationalism$xHistory$9lat$2NLI 606 $aPalestinian Arabs$xLegal status, laws, etc$xHistory$9lat$2NLI 606 $aJews$xLegal status, laws, etc$xHistory$9lat$2NLI 615 7$aLaw$xHistory 615 7$aNationalism$xHistory 615 7$aPalestinian Arabs$xLegal status, laws, etc.$xHistory 615 7$aJews$xLegal status, laws, etc.$xHistory 676 $a349.5694 700 $aLikhovski$b Assaf$01140583 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777607903321 996 $aLaw and identity in mandate Palestine$93704016 997 $aUNINA