The Law in These Parts exposes the widening moral gap between the presumed ethical aspirations of Israeli society and its promulgation of discriminatory laws against Palestinians. Israeli director Ra’anan Alexandrowicz (James’ Journey to Jerusalem; The Inner Tour) examines four decades of Israeli military law, through interviews with its architects, that since 1967 has been imposed on Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories. Thismultilayered film accrues its ethical power gradually, through subtle techniques of visual palimpsest, dialectical editing, and self-reflexive voice-over. Its analysis resonates historically through the deployment of Israeli archival footage in ways that recall the Nazi period and Nuremburg trials while evoking more recent examples of human rights violations by the United States and its allies in the Middle Eastern arena. A sophisticated and deceptively low-key style renders an ultimately devastating indictment of the misuse of the institution of law in order to justify large-scale oppression.  AM