TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shahar,Ido
TI  - Legal pluralism in the Holy City: competing courts, forum shopping and institutional dynamics in Jerusalem 
T2  - Cultural diversity and law
SN  - 9781409410522
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Farnham, Surrey, England
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Islamic courts
KW  - Jerusalem
KW  - Palestinian Arabs
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Forum shopping
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-219) and index; Introduction -- Shari'a courts in Palestine and Israel : a socio-historical review -- Shari'a courts in Israel : the legal setting -- Establishment of the Shari'a court in West Jerusalem -- The site -- The cast of characters -- Organizational routines -- Doing ethnography in the Shari'a court in West Jerusalem : some reflexive notes -- Breaking Shari'a courts' monopoly in jurisdiction -- Shari'a courts' response to competition -- Forum shopping : where to file a maintenance suit -- Three Shari'a courts in Jerusalem -- Forum shopping between Shari'a courts -- Israeli Shari'a courts as pluralistic organizations : a new institutional perspective -- Empirical and theoretical implications
ER  -