Nimer Sultany
Biographic Data
| ID | 4228789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nimer Sultany |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nimer |
| FAMILY NAME | Sultany |
| SIGNATURE | SULTANY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7922-7683 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Threshold Crossed
This article is divided into two parts. The first part describes an increasing legal consensus, manifested in a convergence of the interpretations of Israel’s intent and pattern of conduct in Gaza as genocide. It argues, however, that the focus of this emerging consensus should not be limited to Israel’s weaponization of starvation. Instead, the “military” logic – and Israel’s concomitant deployment of highly permissive interpretations of Interna…
Law and Revolution
What is the effect of revolutions on legal systems? What is the role of constitutions in legitimating regimes? How do constitutions and revolutions converge or clash? Taking the Arab Spring as its case study, this book explores the role of law and constitutions during societal upheavals, and critically evaluates the different trajectories they could follow in a revolutionary setting. The book urges a rethinking of major categories in political, l…
Legitimation Crisis
This chapter examines pre-Arab Spring political history from the perspective of legitimacy theories, and examines legitimacy theories in light of this history. It argues that legitimacy theories do not successfully capture this history. This is because legitimation discourses are based on simplifying binaries that do not correspond to historical realities. They are also incoherent and indeterminate as a result of multiple, competing, and changing…
Activism and Legitimation in Israel’s Jurisprudence of Occupation
Colonial law need not exclude the colonized in order to subordinate them, and ‘activist’ courts can advance the effect of subordination no less than ‘passive’ courts. As a case study, this article examines the jurisprudential legacy of the Israeli Supreme Court in the context of the prolonged Israeli occupation of Palestine. Applying insights from legal realist, law and society, and critical legal studies scholarship, the article questions the ut…
Forum
I argue here that Israel's 'basic structure' (i.e., the main economic, social, and political institutions), to use John Rawls's phrase, subjects the Palestinian citizens to a process of ghettoization that relegates them to a separate and unequal status.This basic structure is particularly unjust, as it does not provide these citizens with the minimal conditions of a decent life.The state not only fails to rectify this injustice but is actively im…
Agents and Their Agency
Review of 'Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967' by Hillel Cohen, University of California Press, 2009
Israel and the Family of Nations
Introduction 1. establishment of - UN debates in 1947 1.1 Israel's Declaration of Independence 1.2 UNSCOP (United Nations Special Committee on Palestine) report 1.3 Partition debate in UN General Assembly 1.4 dilemmas of right of national self-determination 1.5 historic right and historic connection 1.6 An alien body in Arab Middle East 1.7 validity of principle of partition 2. Two arguments: Zionist colonialism and invention of national identity…
Plunder
C urtailing A rab D evelopment
Curtailing Arab Development." Journal of Palestine Studies, 37(1), pp. 115–116 Additional informationNotes on contributorsNimer SultanyNimer Sultany is a Doctor of Juridical Science candidate at Harvard Law School
Redrawing the Boundaries of Citizenship
This article focuses on the development since the second Palestinian intifada of a new consensus in Israeli Jewish society with regard to the Arab minority, which the authors call "the New Zionist Hegemony." After describing the attitudes and beliefs undergirding the new consensus, the article focuses on four areas in which it manifests itself: legislation, government policies, public opinion, and public discourse. The result of the new policies …
Redrawing the Boundaries of Citizenship
This article focuses on the development since the second Palestinian intifada of a new consensus in Israeli Jewish society with regard to the Arab minority, which the authors call "the New Zionist Hegemony." After describing the attitudes and beliefs undergirding the new consensus, the article focuses on four areas in which it manifests itself: legislation, government policies, public opinion, and public discourse. The result of the new policies …
A Threshold Crossed
This article is divided into two parts. The first part describes an increasing legal consensus, manifested in a convergence of the interpretations of Israel’s intent and pattern of conduct in Gaza as genocide. It argues, however, that the focus of this emerging consensus should not be limited to Israel’s weaponization of starvation. Instead, the “military” logic – and Israel’s concomitant deployment of highly permissive interpretations of Interna…
Plunder
Redrawing the Boundaries of Citizenship
This article focuses on the development since the second Palestinian intifada of a new consensus in Israeli Jewish society with regard to the Arab minority, which the authors call "the New Zionist Hegemony." After describing the attitudes and beliefs undergirding the new consensus, the article focuses on four areas in which it manifests itself: legislation, government policies, public opinion, and public discourse. The result of the new policies …
C urtailing A rab D evelopment
Curtailing Arab Development." Journal of Palestine Studies, 37(1), pp. 115–116 Additional informationNotes on contributorsNimer SultanyNimer Sultany is a Doctor of Juridical Science candidate at Harvard Law School
Israel and the Family of Nations
Introduction 1. establishment of - UN debates in 1947 1.1 Israel's Declaration of Independence 1.2 UNSCOP (United Nations Special Committee on Palestine) report 1.3 Partition debate in UN General Assembly 1.4 dilemmas of right of national self-determination 1.5 historic right and historic connection 1.6 An alien body in Arab Middle East 1.7 validity of principle of partition 2. Two arguments: Zionist colonialism and invention of national identity…
Plunder
Agents and Their Agency
Review of 'Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967' by Hillel Cohen, University of California Press, 2009
Forum
I argue here that Israel's 'basic structure' (i.e., the main economic, social, and political institutions), to use John Rawls's phrase, subjects the Palestinian citizens to a process of ghettoization that relegates them to a separate and unequal status.This basic structure is particularly unjust, as it does not provide these citizens with the minimal conditions of a decent life.The state not only fails to rectify this injustice but is actively im…
Activism and Legitimation in Israel’s Jurisprudence of Occupation
Colonial law need not exclude the colonized in order to subordinate them, and ‘activist’ courts can advance the effect of subordination no less than ‘passive’ courts. As a case study, this article examines the jurisprudential legacy of the Israeli Supreme Court in the context of the prolonged Israeli occupation of Palestine. Applying insights from legal realist, law and society, and critical legal studies scholarship, the article questions the ut…
Law and Revolution
What is the effect of revolutions on legal systems? What is the role of constitutions in legitimating regimes? How do constitutions and revolutions converge or clash? Taking the Arab Spring as its case study, this book explores the role of law and constitutions during societal upheavals, and critically evaluates the different trajectories they could follow in a revolutionary setting. The book urges a rethinking of major categories in political, l…
Legitimation Crisis
This chapter examines pre-Arab Spring political history from the perspective of legitimacy theories, and examines legitimacy theories in light of this history. It argues that legitimacy theories do not successfully capture this history. This is because legitimation discourses are based on simplifying binaries that do not correspond to historical realities. They are also incoherent and indeterminate as a result of multiple, competing, and changing…
A Threshold Crossed
This article is divided into two parts. The first part describes an increasing legal consensus, manifested in a convergence of the interpretations of Israel’s intent and pattern of conduct in Gaza as genocide. It argues, however, that the focus of this emerging consensus should not be limited to Israel’s weaponization of starvation. Instead, the “military” logic – and Israel’s concomitant deployment of highly permissive interpretations of Interna…
Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works)