Nimer Sultany
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S.J.D. Candidate
| Status: | In Residence |
| Email: | nsultany@law.harvard.edu |
Dissertation
The Constitution of Equal Citizenship: Subordinated Minorites and Democratic Constitutionalism in Deeply Divided Societies
The proposed research aims at providing an analytical scrutiny of constitution-making and the questions it raises in deeply divided societies with a special focus on the status of subordinated minorities in the constitutional process and framework of the state. The starting point of the research will be twofold: firstly, deeply divided societies present complex dilemmas that should be addressed by constitutional and democratic theory; secondly, indigenous and national minorities are a special case within deeply divided societies that challenge the fundamental constitutional underpinnings of the modern polity, namely its legitimacy. The proposed research will address these issues on the conceptual and comparative level and will attempt to articulate a theoretical framework that organizes this field of scholarship. Surprisingly, this field is unexplored in a sufficient, coherent and comprehensive manner in constitutional theory.
Fields of Research and Supervisors
- Theories of Rights, with Professor Duncan Kennedy, Harvard Law School, Overall Faculty Supervisor
- Constitutional Theory, with Professor Frank Michelman, Harvard Law School
- Comparative Constitutional Law, with Professor Fredrick Schauer, Kennedy School of Government
Additional Research Interests
- Political Theory
- Human Rights Law
- Post-colonialism
Education
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate 2006-Present
- University of Virginia, School of Law, LL.M. 2006
- Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law, LL.M. 2003
- The College of Management, School of Law, LL.B. 1999
Representative Publications
- CITIZENS WITHOUT CITIZENSHIP: ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIAN MINORITY 2000-2002 (Mada al-Carmel - The Arab Center for Applied Social Research, 2003)
- ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIAN MINORITY 2004 (Mada al-Carmel - The Arab Center for Applied Social Research, 2005)
- The Perfect Crime: The Supreme Court, the Occupied Territories and al-Aqsa Intifada, 3 ADALAH'S REVIEW (LAW AND VIOLENCE) 49-57 (2002)
- Redrawing the Boundaries of Citizenship: Israel's New Hegemony, 33(1) JOURNAL OF PALESTINE STUDIES 5-22 (2003)(coauthor)
Additional Information
- ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIAN MINORITY 2004
- CITIZENS WITHOUT CITIZENSHIP: ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIAN MINORITY 2000-2002
- (read chapter 1 of CITIZENS WITHOUT CITIZENSHIP)
- Redrawing the Boundaries of Citizenship: Israel's New Hegemony
- Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, English