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Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine
Assaf Likhovski
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Description for Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine
Paperback. Series: Studies in Legal History. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; LAZ; LN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 492.
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 Likhovski. It was ... Read more
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 Likhovski. It was ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Legal History
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469614908
SKU
V9781469614908
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99-15
About Assaf Likhovski
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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