Nimer Sultany (

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, 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

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Biography

Sultany was born in Tira. He earned a Master's degree in law at

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. In the early 2000s he was coordinator of the Political Monitoring Project at the

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-based Arab Center for Applied Social Research-Mada. After another master's degree in Law from the

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, he enrolled in

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where he obtained a Doctorate in Juridical Science (SJD), the most advanced law degree of its kind. At present he is Reader in

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in London. In 2017 Oxford University Press published his major theoretical study ''Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring'', which was awarded the inaugural ICON-S book prize in 2018.

''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. His starting point is to analyse and challenge Nathan Brown's view that the dominant polity of the Arab world is one of "constitutions without constitutionalism".

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