Summary
Legal scholar whose account of the Hebrew Law of Peace A Brief Genealogy of Jewish Republicanism: Parting Ways with Judith Butler relies on for the history of Jewish law in early Mandate Palestine (PDF p.70).
Details
- Tucker credits Shamir with detailing the brief flourishing of the now largely forgotten Hebrew Law of Peace, a community court system pointedly distinct from existing religious institutions within the Yishuv, and its resistance by both the orthodox rabbinate and the British mandatory government and its fading after the 1922 Advocates’ Ordinance (PDF p.70).
- Works cited: “The Hebrew Law of Peace: The Demise of Law-as-Culture in Early Mandate Palestine,” in The History of Law in a Multi-Cultural Society: Israel 1917–1967, eds. Ron Harris, Alexandre Kedar, Pnina Lahav, and Assaf Likhovski (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002), 110; and Colonies of Law: Colonialism, Zionism and Law in Early Mandate Palestine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) (footnote 37, PDF p.70).
Related pages
A Brief Genealogy of Jewish Republicanism: Parting Ways with Judith Butler, Hebrew Law of Peace