ABSTRACT
As elaborated in the introduction, the organizational approach to legal pluralism developed in this book entails three levels of analysis: the level of interrelations between single organizations, the level of litigants’ agency and forum shopping, and the level of the organizational field. The previous five chapters all focused on the first two levels of analysis, namely the interrelations between the shari‘a court in West Jerusalem and other courts that operate parallel to it (the Israeli family court, and the Jordanian and Palestinian shari‘a courts), and the phenomenon of forum shopping among Muslim Jerusalemites, who may maneuver between these courts. The analyses of these organizational relations have yielded many insights: We have seen how dyadic inter-court relations may develop and transform over time; how competitive and/or cooperative relations between courts may unfold, and how these relations affect both the judicial policies of the involved courts, and the choices of potential litigants.
