Adalah's Review - Volume 3 - Law and Violence (Summer 2002)
Law and violence are often understood to be opposites. The rule of law is conceived of as constituting an orderly alternative to violence. In abandoning this dichotomous depiction of law and violence, legal scholar Robert Cover describes how law manages to work its lethal will while distancing itself from its violent deeds. Violence, others argue, provides the method for establishing legal order, the means through which law works, and the reason for having law.
This volume of Adalah’s Review addresses this relationship between law and violence, and attends mainly, but not exclusively, to law’s relationship to state violence. The questions that concern the authors in this issue are: How does law conceive of violence and authority? How does law relate, conceptualize, regulate, and punish certain forms of violence that threaten legal order? What forms of state violence are made legal and authorized by law? How does law draw the boundary between criminal violence and legal violence? Does law acknowledge its violent characteristics? And finally, what are the consequences of law’s relationship to violence on questions of citizenship?
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On the Collective Criminalization of Political Prisoners - Rina Rosenberg
Law's Conceptions of State Violence - Samera Esmeir
Violent Jurisidictions: On Law, Space, and the Fragmentation of Discourse under Oslo - Amr Shalakany
The Perfect Crime: The Supreme Court, the Occupied Territories, and al-Aqsa Intifada - Nimer Sultany
Administrative Detention: A Lawyer's Testimony - Jamil Dakward with Jake Wadland
Kufr Qassem: Between Ordinary Politics and Transformative Politics - Leora Bilsky
Unwanted Neighbors: A Story of Three Palestinian Women - Yousef Taiseer Jabareen
Fire and Advance: The Promotion of Benzy Sau (Case Comment on HJC 3286/01) - Muhammad Dahleh
Special Inquiry - The Editors
Indictment: The Arab Citizens of the State of Israel v. The State of Israel - The High Follow-up Committee for the Arab Citizens of Israel
Statement of the Committee of Martyrs' Families - Mahmoud Yazbak
An Open Letter to the Families of the Palestinian Martyrs - Tony Doherty
Tribunals of Inquiry: Excerpts from a Legal Opinion on the Fundamental Principles of Practice and Procedure - Lord Gifford QC, Ian MacDonald QC, Jonathan Hall, Sara Mansoori
Request to Cancel Notices of Warning Given to Arab Public Representatives - Hassan Jabareen
