1st Edition
Legal Pluralism in the Holy City Competing Courts, Forum Shopping, and Institutional Dynamics in Jerusalem
By Ido Shahar
Copyright 2015
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book provides an unprecedented portrayal of a lively shari'a court in contemporary West Jerusalem, which belongs to the Israeli legal system but serves Palestinian residents of the eastern part of the city. It draws a rich picture of an intriguing institution, operating in an environment marked by legal pluralism and by exceptional political and cultural tensions. The book suggests an... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I Historical and Formal Legal Context; Chapter 2 Shari‘a Courts in Palestine and Israel; Chapter 3 Shari‘a Courts in Israel; Chapter 4 Establishment of the Shari‘a Court in West Jerusalem; Part II A Court in Motion; Chapter 5 The Site; Chapter 6 The Cast of Characters; Chapter 7 Organizational Routines; Chapter 8 Doing Ethnography in the Shari‘a Court in West Jerusalem; Part III The West Jerusalem Shari‘a Court and the Family Court; Chapter 9 Breaking Shari‘a Courts’ Monopoly in Jurisdiction; Chapter 10 Shari‘a Courts’ Response to Competition; Chapter 11 Forum Shopping; Part IV A Tale of Three Courts and One City; Chapter 12 Three Shari‘a Courts in Jerusalem; Chapter 13 Forum Shopping between Shari‘a Courts; partV Concluding Discussion; Chapter 14 Israeli Shari‘a Courts as Pluralistic Organizations; Chapter 15 Empirical and Theoretical Implications;
Biography
Ido Shahar is Assistant Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa. He is a legal anthropologist and a social historian, specializing in the study of shari'a courts and of Palestinian society. He has published extensively on legal pluralism, on shari'a courts in Israel, and on Palestinians in Israel.
"Drawing on participant observation and textual and legal analyses, Shahar describes and analyzes a lively shari’a court in contemporary West Jerusalem, which belongs to the Israeli legal system but serves Palestinian residents of the eastern part of the city. A major focus is the intertwined jurisdictional, organizational, and humanitarian issues facing the court, including the intersection of the court with non-Israeli Palestinian and Jordanian shari’a courts in East Jerusalem."
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