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- Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
- Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence
summary
Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic?
Transformative Justice, Leora Bilsky's landmark study of Israeli political trials, poses this deceptively simple question. The four trials that she analyzes focus on identity, the nature of pluralism, human rights, and the rule of law-issues whose importance extends far beyond Israel's borders. Drawing on the latest work in philosophy, law, history, and rhetoric, Bilsky exposes the many narratives that compete in a political trial and demonstrates how Israel's history of social and ideological conflicts in the courtroom offers us a rare opportunity to understand the meaning of political trials. The result is a bold new perspective on the politics of justice and its complex relationship to the values of liberalism.
Leora Bilsky is Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University.
Transformative Justice, Leora Bilsky's landmark study of Israeli political trials, poses this deceptively simple question. The four trials that she analyzes focus on identity, the nature of pluralism, human rights, and the rule of law-issues whose importance extends far beyond Israel's borders. Drawing on the latest work in philosophy, law, history, and rhetoric, Bilsky exposes the many narratives that compete in a political trial and demonstrates how Israel's history of social and ideological conflicts in the courtroom offers us a rare opportunity to understand the meaning of political trials. The result is a bold new perspective on the politics of justice and its complex relationship to the values of liberalism.
Leora Bilsky is Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiii
- The Kastner Trial
- Chapter 3. The Poet’s Countertrial
- pp. 67-82
- The Eichmann Trial
- Chapter 4. A Tale of Two Narratives
- pp. 85-115
- The Kufr Qassem Trial
- The Yigal Amir Trial
- Bibliography
- pp. 343-363
- Table of Cases
- pp. 365-368
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472024926
Related ISBN(s)
9780472030378, 9780472114221
MARC Record
OCLC
587635730
Pages
392
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No