The Millet System in the Nineteenth‐century Ottoman Empire

Jaber, Kamel S. Abu

doi:10.1111/j.1478-1913.1967.tb01260.x

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“…A holdover from Ottoman rule, these courts were originally established in an effort to give religious minorities autonomy in their religious, ritual, charitable and educational affairs. Under the British, the jurisdiction of Islamic courts, the state courts under the Ottomans, was similarly limited to family law (Abu Jaber 1967, Tsimhoni 1984, Abou Ramadan 2015.…”

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A hard look at common law administrative tribunals

Seidman¹

2021

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This paper looks at common law administrative tribunals. For legal-historical reasons, these bodies are located at the bottom of the judicial hierarchy or outside of it; its adjudicators often have less training, formal protections and resources than judges of the general court system, yet are required to handle a huge caseload. One difficulty is that administrative tribunals are often not part of the litigation data, skewing statistics. Another difficulty is more substantive: it makes sense for “lower courts” to be assigned cases traditionally considered less legally complicated and overall “less important”; yet common law administrative tribunals often deal with highly complex, socially sensitive legal issues with major potential consequences for litigants’ rights such as bankruptcy, immigration or welfare. Not only should common law administrative tribunals be fully counted in court data, but they should also receive more resources and sufficient judicial oversight to ensure their good operation and litigants’ rights. Este artículo se centra en los tribunales administrativos de derecho consuetudinario. Por razones jurídico-históricas, estas instituciones se ubican en lo más bajo de la jerarquía judicial, o fuera de ella; los jueces suelen tener menos preparación, protecciones formales y recursos que los jueces del sistema general de tribunales, pero se les exige gestionar un enorme número de casos. Una de las dificultades es que los tribunales administrativos no suelen ser parte de los datos de litigio, provocando unas estadísticas distorsionadas. Otra dificultad es más substantiva: es lógico que a los "tribunales inferiores" se les asignen casos tradicionalmente considerados menos complicados y, en general, “menos importantes”; sin embargo, los tribunales administrativos de derecho consuetudinario suelen tener que ocuparse de casos jurídicos altamente complejos y sobre temas socialmente sensibles, con consecuencias potenciales muy importantes para los derechos de los litigantes, como por ejemplo la bancarrota, la inmigración o el bienestar. Los tribunales administrativos de derecho consuetudinario no sólo deberían ser considerados íntegramente en los datos judiciales, sino que también deberían recibir más recursos y una supervisión judicial suficiente para asegurar su buen funcionamiento y los derechos de los litigantes.

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A hard look at common law administrative tribunals

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2021

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“…This was not because Arabs only emigrated into Palestine from surrounding countries after 1920 to take advantage of economic opportunities opened by Zionist settlement (Peters 1984) 1 but because the indigenous occupants of the region the British conquered in 1917 and named Palestine had no conception of themselves as a single community. The Ottoman millet system had functioned by dividing the population juridically into autonomous religious enclaves which, while providing occupants with legal identity and social support (Asali 1989: 206;Abu-Jaber 1967;Cohen and Lewis 1978), 'precluded concern for, or even interest in, any people but those of one's own religious community' (Betts 1975: 112). Qays and Yaman affiliations 2 divided the landscape into distinct and ofttimes feuding units:…”

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