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Horizontal and vertical influences in colonial legal transplantation: water by-laws in British Palestine
American Journal of Legal History Pub Date : 2021-08-09 , DOI: 10.1093/ajlh/njab015
David B Schorr

Local by-laws were the primary tool for local governments in British-ruled Palestine to exercise their authority, and water was the paradigmatic subject for local legislation. Looking at the diffusion of legal norms in local by-laws in the 1930s and 1940s, the article examines the dynamics of lawmaking in a context characterized both by imperial rule and intercommunal conflict. The article asks two major questions: to what extent did the by-laws adopt legal norms and forms across communal boundaries? And was the legislation passed by local governments as the product of local preferences and initiative, or did it rather reflect the desires of the British rulers? Understanding the processes of legal transplantation at the local level can help shed light on a number of issues. For the history of Mandate Palestine, it can refine our understanding of the degree to which the Arab and Jewish communities, engaged in sustained conflict, nonetheless interacted in the fields of urban infrastructure and local lawmaking. For imperial environmental history, it provides an opportunity to test theories about water policy as an expression of top-down power. For the legal history of empire, it highlights a level of lawmaking, located somewhere between imperial imposition and indigenous resistance, that has largely been neglected. And for understanding of legal transplantation or diffusion, it offers a fine-grained case study in the way in which legal norms might move—and transform—across jurisdictional, communal, and cultural lines.

中文翻译:

殖民法律移植中的横向和纵向影响:英属巴勒斯坦的水法规

地方章程是英属巴勒斯坦地方政府行使职权的主要工具,水是地方立法的典型主体。着眼于 1930 年代和 1940 年代地方章程中法律规范的传播,本文考察了在以帝国统治和社区间冲突为特征的背景下的立法动态。这篇文章提出了两个主要问题:章程在多大程度上采用了跨越社区边界的法律规范和形式?地方政府通过的立法是当地偏好和主动性的产物,还是反映了英国统治者的意愿?了解地方层面的法律移植过程有助于阐明许多问题。对于托管巴勒斯坦的历史,它可以加深我们对参与持续冲突的阿拉伯和犹太社区在城市基础设施和地方立法领域的互动程度的理解。对于帝国环境史来说,它提供了一个机会来检验关于水政策作为自上而下权力表达的理论。对于帝国的法律史,它突出了位于帝国强加和本土抵抗之间的立法水平,而这在很大程度上被忽视了。为了理解法律移植或传播,它提供了一个细粒度的案例研究,说明法律规范可能跨越司法管辖区、社区和文化界限的方式移动和转变。尽管如此,他们还是在城市基础设施和地方立法领域进行了互动。对于帝国环境史来说,它提供了一个机会来检验关于水政策作为自上而下权力表达的理论。对于帝国的法律史,它突出了位于帝国强加和本土抵抗之间的立法水平,而这在很大程度上被忽视了。为了理解法律移植或传播,它提供了一个细粒度的案例研究,说明法律规范可能跨越司法管辖区、社区和文化界限的方式移动和转变。尽管如此,他们还是在城市基础设施和地方立法领域进行了互动。对于帝国环境史来说,它提供了一个机会来检验关于水政策作为自上而下权力表达的理论。对于帝国的法律史,它突出了位于帝国强加和本土抵抗之间的立法水平,而这在很大程度上被忽视了。为了理解法律移植或传播,它提供了一个细粒度的案例研究,说明法律规范可能跨越司法管辖区、社区和文化界限的方式移动和转变。位于帝国强加和本土抵抗之间的某个地方,这在很大程度上被忽视了。为了理解法律移植或传播,它提供了一个细粒度的案例研究,说明法律规范可能跨越司法管辖区、社区和文化界限的方式移动和转变。位于帝国强加和本土抵抗之间的某个地方,这在很大程度上被忽视了。为了理解法律移植或传播,它提供了一个细粒度的案例研究,说明法律规范可能跨越司法管辖区、社区和文化界限的方式移动和转变。
更新日期:2021-08-09
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