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20 Berkeley J. Int'l L. 462 (2002)
A Case Study of Third World Jurisprudence - Palestine: Conflict Resolution and Customary Law in a Neopatrimonial Society

handle is hein.journals/berkjintlw20 and id is 470 raw text is: A Case Study of Third World Jurisprudence-Palestine: Conflict Resolution and Customary Law in a Neopatrimonial Society By Robert Terris and Vera Inoue-Terris* PREFA CE ........................................................ 462 I. INTRODUCTION ......................................... 465 II. CUSTOMARY LAW ...................................... 466 A . O verview ............................................. 466 B. The Persistence of Customary Law through 500 Years of Foreign Rule .......................................... 468 III. NEOPATRIM ONY ........................................ 471 A . Patrim onialism ........................................ 472 B. Neopatrimonialism and the Perpetuation of Clientelism .... 473 C. Neopatrimonialism in the Palestinian National Authority... 476 1. Historical Underpinnings ........................... 476 2. Contemporary Politics .............................. 477 3. M odem Economics ................................ 479 4. Security Apparatus ................................. 482 IV. CONTEMPORARY PALESTINIAN LEGAL CULTURE ..... 483 A. The Role of the Police ................................. 485 B. The Intermingling of Customary and Civil Law ........... 487 V. CONCLUSION ............................................ 492 AFTERW ORD .................................................... 493 PREFACE The following true story demonstrates in a colorful manner Palestinian le- gal culture. Eating in a restaurant one afternoon, Taher,1 a thirty-seven year old Pales- tinian living in the Gaza Strip, was distracted from his meal by the sound of a loud crash. Upon exiting the restaurant, he discovered shattered glass strewn * The authors wish to thank Dr. Nazmi AI-Jubeh for his time and effort in overseeing our research and Sara Folchi and Ian Eliasoph for ushering us to the finish. 1. Interview with Taher, in Gaza (Feb. 26, 2001) [hereinafter Taher]. Actual name has been changed.

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