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Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine Assaf Likhovski

Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine By Assaf Likhovski

Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine by Assaf Likhovski


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Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine by Assaf Likhovski

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 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 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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NLS9781469614908
9781469614908
1469614901
Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine by Assaf Likhovski
New
Paperback
The University of North Carolina Press
2014-03-30
328
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