argue that in one respect Agamben does repeat a typical supersessionist gesture, namely in pitting law against grace and thereby counterposing law to liberation. In so doing, Agamben not only fails to do justice to an essential element in Jewish
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In European Judaism
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
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- Research Article
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- 68–77 (10 total)
Raphael Cohen-Almagor
This article examines the tension between liberalism and Orthodoxy in Israel as it relates to censorship. The first section aims to explain Israel's vulnerability as a multicultural democracy in a hostile region, with significant schisms that divide the nation. The next section presents the dilemma: should Israel employ legal mechanisms to counter hate speech and racism? The third section details the legal framework, while the fourth reviews recent cases in which political radicals were prosecuted for incitement to racism. The final section discusses cases in which football supporters were charged with incitement after chanting “Death to Arabs“ during matches. I argue that the state should consider the costs and risks of allowing hate speech and balance these against the costs and risks to democracy and free speech that are associated with censorship.
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Dec 2012
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- Research Article
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- 41–64 (24 total)
String Theory and ‘The Man of Law’s Tale’
Where Is Constancy?
William A. Quinn
…incerto tempore ferme incertisque locis spatio depellere paulum [at random times and places they shift a bit] Lucretius, De Rerum Natura (II, 218–219) Chaucer’s ‘The Man of Law’s Tale’ is strange. In the Riverside edition, Larry
Inside and Outside the law
Negotiated Being and Urban Jouissance in the Streets of Beirut
Ghassan Hage
of what gives Lebanon’s periodic civil wars their particularly chaotic form. “Shoo hal fawda b’hal balad!” (What a chaotic nation this is!), “Ma fi nazam b’hal balad!” (There is no law and order in this nation!), and “Ma fi dawleh!” (There is no state
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 88–108 (21 total)
Women and Family Law in Byzantium
Some Notes
Niki Megalommati
. Available sources—imperial law, histories and chronicles, hagiographies, and archival documents—were written mainly by males; female-authored texts are rare in Byzantine literature. Social stratification also operates against attempts to create a consistent
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
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- Research Article
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- 19–32 (14 total)
Gilad Ben-Nun
stipulations of Roman law. Lastly, I wish to demonstrate the difference with which both of these legal systems address forced migrants from both categories. In search for the definitional difference between these two categories of displaced people as they
In Migration and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 124–136 (13 total)
Life at a Tangent to Law
Regulations, ‘Mistakes’ and Personhood amongst Kigali’s Motari
Will Rollason
knowing stupidity. Thus, André could be seen as resisting legality, trying to avoid the problems of visibility and legibility ( Scott 1998 ) that the law imposes and the risk of serious difficulties that it might entail. In Rwandan studies, such accounts
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jan 2018
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- Research Articles
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- 26–48 (23 total)
Stuart Kirsch
to protect its citizens and nature against corporate malfeasance are imagined in new ways (Affolter, this issue). Collectively, the articles explore the role of law in managing relations between corporations, communities, and the state, including
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Afterword
- Pages:
- 100–109 (10 total)
"You’re a Trickster”
Mockery, Egalitarianism, and Uncertainty in Northeastern Namibia
Megan Laws
The trickster has held a prominent place in the study of folklore, as much as it has been central to anthropological understandings of egalitarianism. In both, the trickster embodies an insoluble tension between the repressed, amoral desires of the individual and the moral demands of social life. This tension, so it goes, is visible in the ambiguity of the figure—a protean indeterminate being, neither good nor bad. Among the Jú|’hoànsi of northeastern Namibia, the trickster is similarly ambiguous. The figure conveys not a clash of values, but rather the doubt and uncertainty people feel toward those with whom they share resources, or about different ways of sharing and how they might relate to one another. This article approaches such uncertainty through a focus on the mocking phrase “you’re a trickster” and the moral discourses that accompany it.
Fragmentation in International Law and Global Governance
A Conceptual Inquiry
Timo Pankakoski and Antto Vihma
Fragmentation has become a key concept in the analysis of international law and global governance in recent years. For many, fragmentation has both positive and negative aspects, but scholars are divided over which aspect is predominant. The
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- Research Article
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- 22–48 (27 total)