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Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine (Studies in Legal History)

by Assaf Likhovski

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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 Likhov… (more)
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Interesting survey of different identity groups and their interaction with the law in British Mandate Palestine. ( )
  askannakarenina | Sep 16, 2020 |
Interesting survey of different identity groups and their interaction with the law in British Mandate Palestine. ( )
  askannakarenina | Sep 16, 2020 |
Interesting survey of different identity groups and their interaction with the law in British Mandate Palestine. ( )
  askannakarenina | Sep 16, 2020 |
Interesting survey of different identity groups and their interaction with the law in British Mandate Palestine. ( )
  askannakarenina | Sep 16, 2020 |
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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 Likhov

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