The History of Law in a Multi-Cultural Society : Israel 1917-1967 (Hardcover)

Contents: Israeli legal history: past and present, Ron Harris, Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar, Pnina Lahav, Assaf Likhovski. Law Under British Rule: The national construction of a workers’ moral community: labour’s informal justice in early Mandate Palestine, David De Vries; Colonialism, nationalism and legal education: the case of Mandatory Palestine, Assaf Likhovski; The dialectics of Zionism and democracy in the law of Mandatory Palestine, Yoram Shachar; The Hebrew law of peace: the demise of law-as-culture in early Mandate Palestine, Ronen Shamir. The Israeli Supreme Court: Breaking the acoustic wall between the Kastner and Eichmann trials, Leora Bilsky; The pains and gains of writing biography: reflections on writing the biography of Chief Justice Simon Agranat, Pnina Lahav; Law and culture in Israel: the 1950s and the 1980s, Menachem Mautner. Law and Power: Legitimizing imprisonment for debt: lawyers, judges and legislators, Ron Harris; Mass immigration, housing supply and Supreme Court jurisprudence of land expropriation in early statehood, Yifat Holzman-Gazit; The Jewish state and the Arab possessor: 1948-1967, Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar. A View From Within: Israeli legal history, Aharon Barak. Perspectives From Abroad: Property and power in American legal history, William W. Fisher III; Legal history: Israel and the United States - some remarks, Morton J. Horwitz; Israeli legal history: a bibliography; Index.