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Peace with Justiceby Dr Andrew Buchanan
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 136.00Peace with Justice is an analysis of the political, legal and economic viability of the current Israeli NPLO peace process, and an evaluation of the agreements made between 13 September 1993 and 17 January 1997. It assesses the attempt by the Israeli and Palestinian communities to shape a common future through an analysis of the effectiveness of the negotiated agreements as an instrument for, and as an example of, conflict resolution. more...
Courting Conflictby Lisa Hajjar
University of California Press 2005; US$ 15.95Israel's military court system, a centerpiece of Israel's apparatus of control in the West Bank and Gaza since 1967, has prosecuted hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. This authoritative book provides a rare look at an institution that lies both figuratively and literally at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Lisa Hajjar has conducted in-depth interviews with dozens of Israelis and Palestinians?including judges, prosecutors, defense lawyers, defendants, and translators?about their experiences and practices to explain how this system functions, and how its functioning has affected the conflict. Her lucid, richly detailed, and theoretically sophisticated study highlights the array of problems and debates that characterize Israel's... more...
Islamic law and legal systemby F.E. Vogel
BRILL 2000; US$ 210.00This volume offers an examination of the legal system of Saudi Arabia, not only for its own sake but also as a case study for insight into past and present Islamic legal systems. more...
Sharecropping in the Yemenby W.J. Donaldson
BRILL 2000; US$ 173.00This text discusses sharecropping in the Yemen against the background of Islamic law and customary law. Sharecropping is interesting in Islam since its basis is ostensibly inconsistent with the Islamic prohibition against transactions involving gharar (risk or uncertainty). more...
John of Ibelinby P.W. Edbury
BRILL 2003; US$ 315.00This work is a critical edition of the legal treatise by John of Ibelin, count of Jaffa and Ascalon (died 1266). His work describes in detail the procedures of the High Court of the kingdom of Jerusalem, and the law as administered there. more...
Practical guide to litigation and arbitration in the United Arab Emiratesby E. Al Tamimi
BRILL 2003; US$ 159.00Al Tamimi (a licensed advocate of the Courts of the United Arab Emirates) offers a "detailed guide to litigation and arbitration in the United Arab Emirates based on Federal laws, laws specific to the individual Emirates, judgments delivered by the Court of Cassation and International Conventions to which the United Arab Emirates is a member," acco more...
Watershedby Stephen C. Lonergan; David B. Brooks
International Development Research Centre 1995; US$ 25.00Watershed describes the water crisis faced by Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories today ; a crisis that will have much to do with the design and the success of the current peace proposals. The authors examine the geopolitics of water in the region, the economic importance, problems of water supply and water quality, and regional conflicts over water. more...
Competition Law and Policy in the Middle Eastby Maher M. Dabbah
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 89.00A comprehensive account of the development of competition law and policy in the Middle East. more...
Judicial Reform and Reorganization in 20th Century Iranby Majid Mohammadi
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 113.00Iran is now at the center of political and social developments in the Middle East. This book examines the reform of the judicial system in 20th century Iran and is the first to relate state-building process with the rule of law promotion and judicial reform in the region. This subject occupies the critical juncture of three developments in the contemporary study of Iranian society as an important and early case of social revolution and reform in the Middle East: the state-building process in a non-Western country throughout the 20th century, the incorporation of a non-Western Muslim country into the Western legal framework through codification and transplantation (1911-1979), and the Islamicization process after this critical social development... more...
Constitutional Politics in the Middle Eastby Said Amir Arjomand
Hart 2008; US$ 117.60This book is the first comparative and interdisciplinary study of constitutional politics and constitution-making in the Middle East. The historical background and setting are fully explored in two substantial essays by Linda Darling and Saïd Amir Arjomand, placing the contemporary experience in the contexts, respectively, of the ancient Middle Eastern legal and political tradition and of the nineteenth and twentieth century legal codification and political modernization. These are followed by Ann Mayer's general analysis of the treatment of human rights in relation to Islam in Middle Eastern constitutions, and Nathan Brown's comparative scrutiny of the process of constitution-making in Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq with reference... more...









