The history of law in a multi-cultural society : Israel 1917-1967 / edited by Ron Harris, Alexandre Kedar, Pnina Lahav and Assaf Likhovski.

Aldershot (Hants) : Ashgate Dartmouth, 2002

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Law -- Israel -- History.

Law -- United States -- History.

1. Israeli legal history : past and present / Ron Harris, Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar, Pnina Lahav and Assaf Likhovski

Part I. Law under British rule: 2. The national construction of a workers' moral community : Labor's informal justice in early mandate Palestine / David De Vries

3. Colonialism, nationalism and legal education : the case of mandatory Palestine / Assaf Likhovski

4. The dialectics of Zionism and democracy in the law of mandatory Palestine / Yoram Shachar

5. The Hebrew law of peace : the demise of law-as-culture in early mandate Palestine / Ronen Shamir

Part II. The Israeli Supreme Court: 6. Breaking the acoustic wall between the Kastner and Eichmann trials / Leora Bilsky

7. The pains and gains of writing biography : reflections on writing the biography of Chief Justice Simon Agranat / Pnina Lahav

8. Law and culture in Israel : the 1950s and the 1980s / Menachem Mautner

Part III. Law and power: 9. Legitimizing imprisonment for debt : lawyers, judges and legislators / Ron Harris

10. Mass immigration, housing supply and Supreme Court jurisprudence of land expropriation in early statehood / Yifat Holzman-Gazit

11. The Jewish state and the Arab possessor : 1948-1967 / Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar

Part IV. A view from within: 12. Israeli legal history / Aharon Barak

Part V. Perspectives from abroad: 13. Property and power in American legal history / William W Fisher III

14. Legal history : Israel and the United States - some remarks / Lawrence M Friedman

15. Writing legal history in a post-formalist world / Morton J Horwitz.

Includes a bibliography of Israeli legal history and index.

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