Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine
By Assaf Likhovski
328 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 12 illus., 4 tables, 1 map, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-1490-8
Published: March 2014 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-7462-7
Published: December 2006 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-7718-0
Published: December 2006
Studies in Legal History
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Awards & distinctions
2006 Yonathan Shapiro Best Book Award, Association for Israel Studies
Law in Mandate Palestine was not merely an instrument of power or a method of solving individual disputes, says Likhovski. It was also a way of answering the question, "Who are we?" British officials, Jewish lawyers, and Arab scholars all turned to the law in their search for their identities, and all used it to create and disseminate a hybrid culture in which Western and non-Western norms existed simultaneously. Uncovering a rich arsenal of legal distinctions, notions, and doctrines used by lawyers to mediate between different identities, Likhovski provides a comprehensive account of the relationship between law and identity. His analysis suggests a new approach to both the legal history of Mandate Palestine and colonial societies in general.
About the Author
Assaf Likhovski is associate professor at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. He is coeditor of The History of Law in a Multicultural Society: Israel, 1917-1967 and The Courts of Law: Fifty Years of Adjudication in Israel.
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"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
"A prodigious and important work of scholarship by an extremely erudite and gifted young scholar."--Israel Studies Forum
"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
"This is a fascinating, engaging, accessible and evocative book, which takes the study of Mandate Palestine into a new direction."--The Modern Law Review
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