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Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. Noura Erakat, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. Pp 352. $22.00 paper. ISBN: 9781503613577 by Asma S. Jaber is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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In Justice for Some, Noura Erakat makes the noteworthy achievement of tracing the relationship between law and politics over a span of 100 years from 1917-2017 to narrate the question of Palestine. Through a lens of critical legal theory, she illustrates that in order to achieve law's emancipatory potential, Palestinians must wield the law in service of a political movement. Erakat writes a book that is both accessible to the non-lawyer and that serves as a critical analysis of law, history, diplomacy, and a political intervention in service of Palestinian freedom. Erakat succinctly summarizes her analytical framework through an analogy. Law, she writes, is like the sail of a boat. While the sail guarantees motion, the wind-comprised of political mobilization and "legal work"-determines the boat's direction (p. 11). The concept of legal work, developed by legal scholar Duncan Kennedy, entails "the work that the legal actor performs to achieve a desired outcome" (p. 7). The idea is premised on the notion that law is indeterminate because it must be interpreted by lawyers and adjudicated by judges. Accordingly, actors undertake legal work to transform legal norms in order to suit the
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- Author
- Asma S. Jaber
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; Cambridge University Press (CUP) (ISSN 0020-7438)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences