The object of this book is to make available in one comprehensive volume the sources of public law in contemporary Palestine; to the extent that these sources of international and constitutional law are found in documents, statements, laws and judgements relating to and arising from the Mandate for Palestine. This hand-book is intended not only for judges, scholars and lawyers, who are interested in the matter ex professo, but also for the layman, interested in politics, who is generally acquainted with this question'...

Max Laserson (a.k.a. Maksis Lazerson, 1887-1951) was a Latvian-Jewish Law professor, politician and philosopher. He joined the Socialist movement in 1905 and went on to study law at the University of Saint Petersburg in the years 1906-1910, and was appointed a professor there in 1916. In 1917, following the February revolution, he joined the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Provisional Government. In 1920 he left the Soviet Union and returned to Latvia, where he continued to teach at the School of Economics and the Russian University in Riga. In the years 1921-1931 Laserson took part in the leftist parties at the Latvian parliament, where he fought for minorities' rights (and for Jewish rights among those). He was also active in the Jewish organisations Hapoel Hatzair and Tze'irei Zion. Laserson was imprisoned in Latvia in 1934, following the Latvian coup d'état, he was then made to leave Lativa upon his release. He came to settle in the Land of Israel in 1935 and was one of the founders of the Higher School of Law and Economics in Tel Aviv, but subsequently moved to the USA where he worked in Justice Department and later became a professor of public international law at the Columbia University. Laserson died in New York in 1951; Higher School of Law and Economics is now part of Tel Aviv University.

8vo; XLVII, [1], 206 pp., 2 errartas. Original printed wrappers, spine and edges chipped, pages clean and crisp.