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09 Apr White America Fights for Democracy
...openly pro-Palestine Ivy Leaguers. And so, “wait a minute!”, the white Progressive mind thinks, “I am also pro-Palestine Ivy Leaguer!” There is thus something very self-serving brewing just barely under the surface of the urgency with which this fight for US democracy is taking shape – and it is worth exploring further. As the white Progressive elites claw themselves to the bulwarks of due process and fundamental rights and declare that the battle for the soul of America has begun, they also seem to ignore that for many others, the...
05 Sep Iran’s Threat of Retaliation
...international law Palestine has the right to resist militarily based on its right to self-determination—both in its quest for statehood and in opposing Israeli military occupation, as recently confirmed by the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on the Policies and Practices of Israel in the OPT – then Hamas leaders might be considered to enjoy elevated rights under international law, possibly even an informal right to immunity. Although the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is internationally recognized as the representative of the Palestinian people, it is Hamas that actually conducts trials ‘on the...12 May Events and Announcements: 12 May 2024
...accessible via this link, with the registration form already open here (registrations close on the 6 th of June). For more information, please consult the webpage of the conference or reach out to the organizers, who will assist you with any questions you may have. The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Recent developments at the ICJ : On 15 May 2024; 14:30 – 18:00 (BST), the University of Nottingham’s Human Rights Law Centre will be hosting an event exploring recent developments at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in relation to the Israel-Palestine conflict. During this event,...21 May Annexation in the Shadow of the Law—Part II
...Palestinians, it is far from clear that it is being abandoned in favor of a non-ethnic “State of all its citizens” rather than a national Palestinian State in all of Mandatory Palestine. (And the same could be said, conversely, and with even more force, about the decline in support for two states among Jewish Israelis.) Moreover, any decision to abandon the decades-long dream of Palestinian self-determination should be made through some kind of democratic process by Palestinians themselves – not by a unilateral Israeli act of annexation or by reliance...11 Apr Events and Announcements: 11 April 2021
Events Webinar on Palestine, Israel and the ICC: The Nottingham Law School (NLS) Centre for Rights and Justice is pleased to announce a webinar on ‘The Long Walk to Justice: Palestine, Israel and the International Criminal Court’ on 12 April 2021 from 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm. The webinar will host the contributions of Prof Richard Falk, former UN special rapporteur on the situation in the occupied territories, and of world-leading voices (of both scholars and practitioners) involved in the international legal debate surrounding this pressing issue (Prof. Chantal Meloni,...
23 Mar TWAIL Pedagogy: Un-Learning Colonial Ways of Teaching International Law
...of the dialectics at play. C- Epistemic Renewal Imagine yourself lecturing students from Argentina, China, Cuba, India, Iraq, Libya, Palestine, South Africa, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen on the fundamentals of international law: the principle of world peace, sovereign equality of states, prohibition on the use of force, and promotion of economic and social advancement. One student enquires about the legality of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Other than religion and skin colour, what’s so different about Ukraine, they wonder? Will the ICC issue arrest warrants for Blair and Bush? Another...05 Dec Annapolis and the Road Map
...territorial commitments are one way the process could continue, at least for a time, in the face of attacks. The steps would also enable Israel to start the peace process by saying and showing that it is complying with the Road Map and Oslo on key issues related to the ultimate disposition of territory. This could strengthen Israel’s position on territorial questions, if it creates a climate for negotiations in which Palestine would agree to some Israeli retention of West Bank settlements. By contrast, if Israel expands settlements, roads and...25 Aug Would the ICC Have Jurisdiction over Ahmadinejad’s Statements?
I read with great interest Professor Bell’s analysis of whether the ICC would have jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute President Ahmadinejad for direct and public incitement to genocide. I just want to to point out that the jurisdictional question he discusses is actually more complicated than he suggests. The critical Article is Article 12, “Preconditions to the Exercise of Jurisdiction,” which reads: 1. A State which becomes a Party to this Statute thereby accepts the jurisdiction of the Court with respect to the crimes referred to in article 5. 2....04 Mar Tracking State Reactions to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: A Resource for Research
...February 25th, Myanmar’s Junta stated that Russia’s invasion was “justified”, which coded it green. On March 2nd, though, Myanmar voted in favour of Resolution A/ES-11/L.1 – a full 180° turn – which coded it red. I decided to keep the latest intervention as the “final” one, but left the green colouring in the February 25th statement, to mark the extreme discrepancy. I tracked statements by 197 sovereign entities (193 UN Member states, plus Kosovo, Taiwan, Palestine and the Holy See). Of these, 143 (72.59%) considered Russia’s invasion an act...
23 May New Trends in International Justice
...veto on Syria. This prevented the referral of Syria to the ICC in May 2014 as well as the adoption of numerous resolutions calling for cease fires and delivery of humanitarian aid. On Myanmar, China’s threatened veto blocked not only a referral of Myanmar to the ICC, but even Security Council debate over an arms embargo and sanctions following the upsurge of the ethnic cleansing campaign there in August 2017. For Myanmar this has left the ICC, intended to be the centerpiece of a “system” of international justice, restricted to...