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Law and the culture of Israel /

For half a century a fierce struggle to shape Israeli culture has been waged in its legal system. Should Israel be a secular, liberal state, or governed by traditional Jewish law and culture? Here, Menachem Mautner tells the story of the political struggles to control Israeli law, and through it the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mautner, Menachem
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Zionism and the evolving new culture
  • The cultural struggles over the shaping of the law
  • From judicial restraint to judicial activism
  • The decline of formalism and the rise of values
  • From hegemony to war of cultures
  • The Supreme Court and the future of liberalism
  • Israel as a multicultural state
  • Law and culture in the coming decades
  • Conclusion.