A New History of Colonial Lawyering
Likhovski and Legal Identities in the British Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12177439 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mitra Sharafi (0000-0002-4524-125X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1059-1094 |
| Publication date | 2007-10-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Social Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0897-6546 • E-ISSN: 1747-4469 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1747-4469.2007.00087.x |
| OpenAlex | W2152221485 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 81 |
The history of the legal profession has been dominated by Richard Abel's monopolization thesis, and by Terence C. Halliday and Lucien Karpik's political model of lawyers as maintainers of liberal polities. By contrast, Assaf Likhovski's legal history of mandate Palestine treats lawyers and judges as cultural intermediaries who shaped the legal identity of Jewish and Arab communities. This article situates Likhovski's book within a growing body of scholarship on non-European lawyering in the British Empire. It links Likhovski's case studies to legal figures from colonial India, West Africa, and Malaya, all of whom acted as cultural translators and ethnographic intermediaries in the formation of colonial identities
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Colonialism · Empire · Identity (music · Legal history · Legal profession · Mandate · Mandatory Palestine · Monopolization · Palestine · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Islamic Studies and History · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law
Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age
The Many Exiles of Max Laserson
Imagining the Post-colonial Lawyer
Plausible Crime Stories
The Portable Coup
Rethinking the Nineteenth-Century Domestication of the Sharīʿa
Peripheral Vision
A Peripatetic World Court” Cosmopolitan Courts, Nationalist Judges and the Indian Appeal to the Privy Council
Jousting Over Jurisdiction
The Campaign for Islamic Law in Fiji
Lawyers’ Empire in the (African) colonial margins
The Semi-Autonomous Judge in Colonial India
Property, Authority and Personal Law
The Marital Patchwork of Colonial South Asia
Writing Law at the Edge of Empire
South Asian Legal History
Procedure as Politics in the Cape Colony
The semi-autonomous judge in colonial India
Who are judicial decisions meant for? The ‘global community of law’ in Southern Africa
Apartheid South Africa's segregated legal field
Through the Narrow Door
Where is your body?
East Indian fortunes
The legal profession in England and Wales
Cause Lawyering
Professors of the Law
A Princely Impostor?
The Emergence of Indian Nationalism
Muslim Endowments and Society in British India
The Making of South African Legal Culture 1902–1936
Whiteness as Property
Exchanging our country marks
Race, sex, and class under the Raj
A despotism of law
Oral Tradition as History
Way of Death
Métis, Mestizo, and Mixed‐Blood
Religion and Personal Law in Secular India
Lawyers and Politics in the Arab World, 1880-1960
The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities
The People Who Own Themselves
Ideologies of the Raj
The Jewish Century
Liberalism and Empire
Law and Colonial Cultures
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800
Beyond "cool" and "hip
Taking Weber Seriously
The Politics of Lawyers
Politics and Civic Professionalism
Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India
Lawyers and Touts
Anthropologists at Home in North America
Black Slaveowners
Thomas Morris Chester, Black Civil War Correspondent
Mandate Memories 1918-1948
Hitler's Justice
Lawyers in the Third World
The Judicial System in Southern Nigeria, 1854-1954
Fire and the Spirits
A History of Persia
Codification and the Rule of Colonial Difference
The Legal Profession in England and Wales
French Lawyers
French Lawyers
Lawyers in Gold Coast Politics c. 1900–1945
Co-Operation and Collaboration in Colonial East Africa
The Invention of "Hebrew Law" in Mandatory Palestine
Palestine of the Jews, Past, Present and Future
Lawyers in Gold Coast Politics c. 1900-1945
A Sketch of the Development of the Legal Profession in India
Enchantment, Aesthetics, and the Superficial Powers of Modern Law
Sir William Jones 1746-1794
Ethnicity, Community and the Census in Mauritius, 1830-1990
The New-Old Land of Israel
Hard Labour
The Making of South African Legal Culture, 1902-1936
Framed, Blamed and Renamed
Ideology and Ethnicity under British Imperial Rule
Lawyers' Professionalism, Colonialism, State Formation, and National Life in Nigeria, 1900-1960
Colonizing Hawai'i
"Learning to Be an Anthropologist and Remaining "Native
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,24 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2022 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |