Nimer Sultany
Nimer Sultany is a Palestinian citizen of Israel, the author of two books on the situation of Palestinian citizens of that country, and a work on constitutional theory and Arab countries. He is a regular contributor to The Guardian[1] and Jadaliyya.[2]
Biography
Sultany was born in Tira. He earned a Master's degree in law at Tel Aviv University. In the early 2000s he was coordinator of the Political Monitoring Project at the Haifa-based Arab Center for Applied Social Research-Mada.[3] After another master's degree in Law from the University of Virginia, he enrolled in Harvard Law School where he obtained a Doctorate in Juridical Science (SJD), the most advanced law degree of its kind. At present he is Reader in Public law at SOAS in London.[4]
In 2017 Oxford University Press published his major theoretical study Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring,[5][6] which was awarded the inaugural ICON-S book prize in 2018.[7]
Law and Revolution
Sultany's book is divided into three parts. In each, revolutions are examined in terms of a concept of legitimacy, legality and constitutionalism.[8] His starting point is analyse and challenge Nathan Brown's view that the dominant polity of the Arab world is one of "constitutions without constitutionalism".[a][9]
Notes
- ^ "Over the past century and a half, the Arab world has grown rich in constitutions – documents that spell out the basic legal framework for governing – without growing richer in constitutionalisms-limited and accounted government. Basic laws have proliferated but few Arab governments have been restricted in their authority by them." (Brown 2012, p. xiv)
Citations
- ^ Guardian.
- ^ Jadaliyya.
- ^ Rouhana & Sultany 2003.
- ^ SOAS.
- ^ Sultany 2017.
- ^ Razai 2018.
- ^ Brown 2019.
- ^ Takriti 2020, p. 588.
- ^ Takriti 2020.
Sources
- Brown, Nathan J. (2012). Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World: Arab Basic Laws and the Prospects for Accountable Government. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-791-48968-0.
- Brown, Nathan J. (January 2019). "Book Review". International Journal of Constitutional Law. 17 (1): 357–361. doi:10.1093/icon/moz013.
- "Dr Nimer Sultany". SOAS School of Law.
- Hajjar, Lisa (2018). "Review of Sultany 2017". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 45 (5): 860–862. doi:10.1080/13530194.2018.1496707. S2CID 150115121.
- "Nimer Sultany". Jadaliyya. Arab Studies Institute.
- "Nimer Sultany". The Guardian.
- Razai, Sara S. (31 August 2018). "Book Review: Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring By Nimer Sultany". The Legal Agenda.
- Rouhana, Nadim N.; Sultany, Nimer (Autumn 2003). "Redrawing the Boundaries of Citizenship: Israel's New Hegemony". Journal of Palestine Studies. 33 (1): 5–22. doi:10.1525/jps.2003.33.1.5. JSTOR 10.1525/jps.2003.33.1.5.
- Sultany, Nimer (2003). Citizens Without Citizenship: Israel and the Palestinian Minority, 2000-2002. Haifa: Mada al-Carmel Arab Center for Applied Social Research. ISBN 978-9-659-05731-3.
- Sultany, Nimer (2005). Israel And the Palestinian Minority 2004. Mada al-Carmel Arab Center for Applied Social Research. ISBN 978-9-657-30802-8.
- Sultany, Nimer (Winter 2012). "The Making of an Underclass: The Palestinian Citizens in Israel". Israel Studies Review. 27 (2): 190–200. JSTOR 41804808.
- Sultany, Nimer (2017). Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-198-76889-0.
- Sultany, Nimer (10 June 2020). "Legal Structure, Practices, and Discourse in the Middle East". The Palestine Yearbook of International Law. 21: 201–212. doi:10.1163/22116141_021010005. S2CID 225709389.
- Sultany, Nimer (19 May 2021). "Peaceful coexistence in Israel hasn't been shattered – it's always been a myth". The Guardian.
- Takriti, Abdel Razzaq (August 2020). "Review: Law and Revolution". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 52 (3): 588–590. doi:10.1017/S0020743820000525. S2CID 225444111.