Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine

“This is a fascinating, engaging, accessible and evocative book, which takes the study of Mandate Palestine into a new direction.” — Modern Law Review

“Interesting and complex. . . . Well written, engaging, and intelligently argued.” — International Journal of Middle East Studies

“Worth reading for its unique discussion of some of the important underexplored issues with which the country’s British and Jewish elite grappled during this formative period.” — Journal of Palestine Studies

“Likhovski’s work is a rich and most welcome contribution. . . . Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine has an assured place in every library on the history of the Palestine Mandate.” — Journal of Israeli History

“Intriguing. . . . Likhovski’s excellent study is another example of Israeli legal history’s coming of age.” — Law and History Review

“Convincing. . . . [Likhovski] writes on a complex subject in an engaging style, and he brings a wealth of information and understanding to this subject.” — Journal of British Studies

“Specialized [and] innovative. . . . A welcome, discursively stimulating contribution on the Mandate period.” — History

“A prodigious and important work of scholarship by an extremely erudite and gifted young scholar.” — Israel Studies Forum

“Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine is a pioneer in applying an identity-based focus . . . .Likhovski’s book will undoubtedly become the leading work on the legal history of mandate Palestine.”—Law & Social Inquiry

“This is a bold, rich, and intellectually pathbreaking study of the interaction between law and identity in mandatory Palestine. Through a deep immersion in the legal history of all the actors involved, Likhovski brings to life the complexities and contradictions of a fascinating historical reality often treated only through polemical lenses.” — Michael Stanislawski, Columbia University