Palestinian law schools look to Australia for constitution insight

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PALESTINIAN statehood is in the hands of the United Nations but a group of Australian universities is providing the building blocks for a legal framework in a future fledgling nation.

Five deans from Palestinian law schools have been touring law schools at Australian universities this week to gain an insight into the constitutional legal system, which they hope to incorporate in their own teaching.

Making sense of a legal system that combines fragments from others is difficult, said Akram Daoud, dean of the faculty of law at An-Najah National University in Nablus. "The countries who have ruled in Palestine have left us their legal tradition so it's a mixture, it's a bizarre mixture,'' he said. ''You should know Ottoman laws, English laws, Jordanian laws, Israeli laws, Israeli military orders and the Palestinian new laws."

AusAid has funded 50 scholarships for Palestinian postgraduate students in law and public administration to study at Australian universities.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/palestinian-law-schools-look-to-australia-for-constitution-insight-20110923-1kpd4.html#ixzz1YpKQ6Dmx

[holdencaufield]

1. An encouraging sign that...

... for now anyway, they aren't looking to Iran for constitutional insight.

[Jefferson23]

2. Smart and pro-active. n/t