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Authored Books

Sultany, Nimer (2017) Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Constitutional Theory)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Sultany, Nimer, ed. (2024) Palestine Yearbook of International Law, vol. 24 (2023). Leiden: Brill.

Sultany, Nimer, ed. (2023) Palestine Yearbook of International Law (2022), vol. 23. Leiden: Brill.

Sultany, Nimer, ed. (2021) Palestine Yearbook of International Law (2019/2020), vol. 22. Leiden: Brill.

Sultany, Nimer, ed. (2005) Israel and the Palestinian Minority 2004. Haifa: Israel: Mada al-Carmel -- The Arab Center for Applied Social Research. (Political Monitoring Project)

Sultany, Nimer and Saleh, Nabil, eds. (2005) مدى آخر = Madá ākhar. Haifa: Mada al-Carmel - The Arab Center for Applied Social Research.

Sultany, Nimer, ed. (2004) Israel and the Palestinian Minority 2003. Haifa: Israel: Mada al-Carmel -- The Arab Center for Applied Social Research. (Political Monitoring Project)

Sultany, Nimer, ed. (2003) Citizens without Citizenship: Israel and the Palestinian Minority 2000-2002. Haifa: Israel: Mada al-Carmel -- The Arab Center for Applied Social Research. (Political Monitoring Project)

Book Chapters

Sultany, Nimer (2025) 'Revolution.' In: Bellmay, Richard and King, Jeff, (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 491-520. (Forthcoming)

Sultany, Nimer (2021) 'Marx and Critical Constitutional Theory.' In: O'Connell, Paul and Özsu, Umut, (eds.), Research Handbook on Law and Marxism. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 209-241. (Research Handbooks in Legal Theory series)

Sultany, Nimer (2019) 'Arab Constitutionalism and the Formalism of Authoritarian Constitutionalism.' In: Alvar Garcia, Helena and Frankenberg, Günter, (eds.), Authoritarian Constitutionalism: Comparative Analysis and Critique. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 292-316.

Sultany, Nimer (2017) 'The Legal Structures of Subordination: The Palestinian Minority and Israeli Law.' In: Rouhana, Nadim and Huneidi, Sahar, (eds.), Israel and Its Palestinian Citizens: Ethnic Privilege and Equal Citizenship. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 191-237.

Sultany, Nimer (2016) 'Repetition.' In: Tawil-Souri, Helga and Matar, Dina, (eds.), Gaza as Metaphor. London: Hurst, pp. 203-217.

Sultany, Nimer (2014) 'Liberal Zionism, Comparative Constitutionalism, and the Project of Normalizing Israel.' In: Jabareen, Yousef Taiseer and Shulhut, Antwan, (eds.), On Recognition of the Jewish State. Ramallah: Madar Center, pp. 91-109.

Sultany, Nimer and Takriti, Abdel Razzaq (2011) 'The Dialectics of Democracy and Political Parties under Colonialism: The Case of the Palestinian Movements.' In: Al-Kuwwari, Ali Khalifa and Sa’adawi, Atef, (eds.), The Concept of Democratic Parties and the Reality of Parties in Arab States. Beirut: Center for Arab Unity Studies.

Sultany, Nimer (2005) 'Linguistic Space and Collective Rights: Arabs and Arabic in Israel.' In: Jamal, Amal, (ed.), Deliberations on Collective Rights and the National State = مداخلات حول الحقوق الجماعية والدولة القومية. Haifa: Mada al-Carmel - The Arab Center for Applied Social Research, pp. 115-135.

Sultany, Nimer (2005) 'On Arab Citizenship in Israel.' In: Sultany, Nimer, (ed.), Israel and the Palestinian Minority 2004. Haifa: Mada al-Carmel - The Arab Center for Applied Social Research, pp. 161-181.

Rouhana, Nadim, Saleh, Nabil and Sultany, Nimer (2005) 'Voting Without Voice: The Vote of the Palestinian Minority in Israel.' In: Shamir, Michal and Arian, Asher, (eds.), The Elections in Israel, 2003. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, p. 263.

Journal Article

Sultany, Nimer (2024) 'The Wrongs of Zionism.' Palestine Yearbook of International Law, 24. pp. 3-23.

Sultany, Nimer (2024) 'Law’s Ideology: Neoliberalism and Developmentalism in Egyptian Jurisprudence.' International Journal of Constitutional Law, 22 (2). pp. 255-291.

Sultany, Nimer (2024) 'A Threshold Crossed: On Genocidal Intent and the Duty to Prevent Genocide in Palestine.' Journal of Genocide Research. pp. 1-26. (Forthcoming)

Sultany, Nimer (2023) 'The Question of Palestine as a Litmus Test: On Human Rights and Root Causes.' Palestine Yearbook of International Law, 23. pp. 9-55.

Sultany, Nimer (2019) 'What Good is Abstraction: From Liberal Legitimacy to Social Justice.' Buffalo Law Review, 67 (3). pp. 823-887.

Sultany, Nimer (2018) 'International law’s indeterminacy and 1948 Palestine: two comments on Aeyal Gross’s The Writing on the Wall.' London Review of International Law, 6 (2). pp. 315-324.

Sultany, Nimer (2015) 'Duncan Kennedy on Constitutional Theory and Palestine.' Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left, 10. pp. 84-90.

Sultany, Nimer (2014) 'Activism and Legitimation in Israel's Jurisprudence of Occupation.' Social and Legal Studies, 23 (3). pp. 315-339.

Sultany, Nimer (2014) 'Religion and Constitutionalism: Lessons from American and Islamic Constitutionalism.' Emory International Law Review, 28 (1). pp. 345-424.

Sultany, Nimer (2013) 'Against Conceptualism: Islamic Law, Democracy, and Constitutionalism in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring.' Boston University International Law Journal, 31. pp. 435-463.

Sultany, Nimer (2013) 'Unmasking Juridical Humanity.' Transnational Legal Theory, 4 (1). pp. 157-166.

Sultany, Nimer (2012) 'The Making of an Underclass: The Palestinian Citizens in Israel.' Israel Studies Review, 27 (2). pp. 190-212.

Sultany, Nimer (2012) 'The State of Progressive Constitutional Theory: The Paradox of Constitutional Democracy and the Project of Political Justification.' Harvard Civil Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review, 47 (2). pp. 371-455.

Sultany, Nimer (2007) 'The Legacy of Justice Aharon Barak: A Critical Review.' Harvard International Law Journal Online, 48. pp. 83-92.

Rouhana, Nadim and Sultany, Nimer (2003) 'Redrawing The Boundaries of Citizenship: Israel’s New Hegemony.' Journal of Palestine Studies, 33 (1). pp. 5-22.

Sultany, Nimer (2002) 'The Perfect Crime: The Supreme Court, the Occupied Territories and al-Aqsa Intifada.' Adalah's Review, 3. p. 49.

Book Reviews

Sultany, Nimer (2017) 'Review: The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918–1947, by Lauren Banko.' Journal of Palestine Studies, 47 (1). pp. 112-114.

Sultany, Nimer (2012) 'Debating Israel’s Palestinian Minority.' Journal of Palestine Studies, 41 (3). pp. 126-130.

Sultany, Nimer (2011) 'Agents and Their Agency.' Journal of Palestine Studies, 40 (2). pp. 88-89.

Sultany, Nimer (2010) 'Review: 'The Arab-Jewish City: Spatio-Politics in a Mixed Community' by Haim Yacobi.' Journal of Palestine Studies, 39 (2). pp. 123-124.

Sultany, Nimer (2010) 'Review of Israel and the Family of Nations.' Palestinian Yearbook of International Law, 15 . pp. 439-454.

Sultany, Nimer (2009) 'Review of Plunder: When the Rule of Law is Illegal.' Journal of Law and Society, 36 (4). pp. 599-606.

Sultany, Nimer (2007) 'Review: 'State Practices and Zionist Images: Shaping Economic Development in Arab Towns in Israel' by David A. Wesley.' Journal of Palestine Studies, 37 (1). pp. 115-116.