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• Entering a sociolegal arena
• Historical settings
• Family and court
• Presenting claims
• The court arena
• Documenting the family
• Negotiating versions
• Gender and family
• Attorneys and the justice of the qadi
• Reshaping solutions
• Family experiences
• Conclusion: family, court, and modernity.

This book challenges prevailing assumptions about family, courts of law, and the nature of modernity in Muslim societies against the backdrop of Haifa and Jaffa during "the long nineteenth century". The popular image of the family and the court of law in Muslim societies is one of traditional, unchanging social frameworks. Iris Agmon suggests an entirely different view, grounded in a detailed study of nineteenth-century Ottoman court records from the flourishing Palestinian port cities of Haifa and Jaffa. She depicts the Sharia Muslim court of law as a dynamic institution, capable of adapting to rapid and profound social changes - indeed, of playing an active role in generating these changes. Court and family interact and transform themselves, each other, and the society of which they form part. Agmon's book is a significant contribution to scholarship on both family history and legal culture in the social history of the Middle East.
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• Introduction to Oman's basic statue
• Human rights protections and safeguards
• Omani nationality and human rights
• Democracy, shura, and public participation
• Freedom of association.

• Introduction
• Colonial transplants
• Colonial copyright
• The making of British colonial copyright
• Legislating copyright in Palestine
• Constructing culture and the image of the Hebrew author
• Copyright law and social norms
• Setting the law in motion
• Copyright on the air
• Telegraphic news
• Arab copyright
• At a crossroad.

When the British Empire enacted copyright law for its colonies and called it colonial, or Imperial, copyright, it had its own interests in mind. Deconstructing the imperial policy regarding copyright offers a startling glimpse into how this law was received in the colonies themselves. Offering the first in-depth study from the point of view of the colonized, this book suggests a general model of Colonial Copyright as it was understood as the intersection of legal transplants, colonial law, and the particular features of copyright, especially authorship. Taking as a case study the story of Mandate Palestine (1917-1948), the book details the untold history of the copyright law that became the basis of Israeli law, and still is the law in the Palestinian Authority. It queries the British motivation in enacting copyright law, traces their first, indifferent reaction, and continues with the gradual absorption into the local legal and cultural systems. In the modern era copyright law is at the forefront of globalization but this was no less true when colonial copyright first emerged. By shining a light on the introduction and reception of copyright law in Mandate Palestine, the book illuminates the broader themes of copyright law: the questions surrounding the concept of authorship; the relationship between copyright and the demands of progress; and the complications of globalization.
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• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Legal background
• 2. Cultural narratives underlying proof: male-to-male offences
• 3. Plausibility of children's testimonies: narrator's identity
• 4. Plausibility and ethnicity: audience-narrator nexus
• 5. Plausible emotions
• 6. Corroboration: plausibility embedded in evidentiary standards
• 7. Implausible counter-narratives
• Conclusion
• List of legal cases
• Appendix: relevant criminal legislation
• Bibliography
• Index.
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Plausible Crime Stories is not only the first in-depth study of the history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine but it also pioneers an approach to the historical study of criminal law and proof that focuses on plausibility. Doctrinal rules of evidence only partially explain which crime stories make sense while others fail to convince. Since plausibility is predicated on commonly held systems of belief, it not only provides a key to the meanings individual social players ascribe to the law but also yields insight into communal perceptions of the legal system, self-identity, the essence of normality and deviance and notions of gender, morality, nationality, ethnicity, age, religion and other cultural institutions. Using archival materials, including documents relating to 147 criminal court cases, this socio-legal study of plausibility opens a window onto a broad societal view of past beliefs, dispositions, mentalities, tensions, emotions, boundaries and hierarchies.
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• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Legal background
• 2. Cultural narratives underlying proof: male-to-male offences
• 3. Plausibility of children's testimonies: narrator's identity
• 4. Plausibility and ethnicity: audience-narrator nexus
• 5. Plausible emotions
• 6. Corroboration: plausibility embedded in evidentiary standards
• 7. Implausible counter-narratives
• Conclusion
• List of legal cases
• Appendix: relevant criminal legislation
• Bibliography
• Index.
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Plausible Crime Stories is not only the first in-depth study of the history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine but it also pioneers an approach to the historical study of criminal law and proof that focuses on plausibility. Doctrinal rules of evidence only partially explain which crime stories make sense while others fail to convince. Since plausibility is predicated on commonly held systems of belief, it not only provides a key to the meanings individual social players ascribe to the law but also yields insight into communal perceptions of the legal system, self-identity, the essence of normality and deviance and notions of gender, morality, nationality, ethnicity, age, religion and other cultural institutions. Using archival materials, including documents relating to 147 criminal court cases, this socio-legal study of plausibility opens a window onto a broad societal view of past beliefs, dispositions, mentalities, tensions, emotions, boundaries and hierarchies.
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• Structure, jurisdiction, and identity
• Cultural images and the substance of law
• Case law and the reflection of identity
• Legislation and the representation of identity
• Legal education and the formation of identity
• Crafting law to fit identity
• Limiting identity in law
• Arab lawyers and French identity
• Arif al-Arif and nomadic identity.

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 Likhovski. It was also a way of answering the question, ""Who are we?"" British officials, Jewish lawyers, and Arab scholars all turned to the law in their search for their identities, and all used it to create and disseminate a hybrid culture in which Western and non-Western norms existed simultaneously. Uncovering a rich arsenal of legal distinctions, notions, and doctrines used by lawyers to mediate between different identities, Likhovski provides a comprehensive account of the relationship between law and identity. His analysis suggests a new approach to both the legal history of Mandate Palestine and colonial societies in general.
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• Structure, jurisdiction, and identity
• Cultural images and the substance of law
• Case law and the reflection of identity
• Legislation and the representation of identity
• Legal education and the formation of identity
• Crafting law to fit identity
• Limiting identity in law
• Arab lawyers and French identity
• ʻArif Al-ʻArif and nomadic identity.

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 Likhovski. It was also a way of answering the question, ""Who are we?"" British officials, Jewish lawyers, and Arab scholars all turned to the law in their search for their identities, and all used it to create and disseminate a hybrid culture in which Western and non-Western norms existed simultaneously. Uncovering a rich arsenal of legal distinctions, notions, and doctrines used by lawyers to mediate between different identities, Likhovski provides a comprehensive account of the relationship between law and identity. His analysis suggests a new approach to both the legal history of Mandate Palestine and colonial societies in general.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Structure, jurisdiction, and identity
• Cultural images and the substance of law
• Case law and the reflection of identity
• Legislation and the representation of identity
• Legal education and the formation of identity
• Crafting law to fit identity
• Limiting identity in law
• Arab lawyers and French identity
• Arif al-Arif and nomadic identity.

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 Likhovski. It was also a way of answering the question, ""Who are we?"" British officials, Jewish lawyers, and Arab scholars all turned to the law in their search for their identities, and all used it to create and disseminate a hybrid culture in which Western and non-Western norms existed simultaneously. Uncovering a rich arsenal of legal distinctions, notions, and doctrines used by lawyers to mediate between different identities, Likhovski provides a comprehensive account of the relationship between law and identity. His analysis suggests a new approach to both the legal history of Mandate Palestine and colonial societies in general.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)