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

  1. ^ "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

  1. ^ Guardian.
  2. ^ Jadaliyya.
  3. ^ Rouhana & Sultany 2003.
  4. ^ SOAS.
  5. ^ Sultany 2017.
  6. ^ Razai 2018.
  7. ^ Brown 2019.
  8. ^ Takriti 2020, p. 588.
  9. ^ Takriti 2020.

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