Colonies of Law: Colonialism, Zionism and Law in Early Mandate Palestine
This book traces attempts of Jewish jurists-nationalists to establish a nonreligious system of Hebrew Courts in British-ruled Palestine. The book analyzes the secular, national and anticolonial ideology of the Hebrew Law of Peace and shows that Jewish religious groups, secular lawyers and leading Zionist institutions undermined the Hebrew Law project. The book explores the reluctance of leading Zionists to allow communities, rather than organized quasi-state institutions, to define the...
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This book traces attempts to establish a non-religious system of Hebrew Courts in British-ruled Palestine.
AcknowledgmentsMandate Palestine 1914-1936: Some Facts and FiguresIntroduction11Mandate Palestine: The Enigma of the Missing Colonial State62Whose Tradition? Imageries of the Past in Hebrew Law30Interregnum493State Law and Communal Justice534Celebrating Authenticity and Practicing Hybridity715Nationalism as a Disciplinary Regime92Salle d'Attente1016Lawyering the Nation1087Nation-building and the Containment of Legality1268Dead Law and Statism: A Suggested Lesson148Notes173Bibliography205Index213
