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20 Apr

...pages) to opiniojurisblog@gmail.com by 30 April 2025. Event Lecture – The Notion of an Illegal Occupation in the ICJ’s 2024 Palestine Advisory Opinion: The Chair of International Law, European Law and Public Law at Technische Universität Dresden is pleased to host a public lecture by Prof. Marko Milanović on “The Notion of an Illegal Occupation in the ICJ’s 2024 Palestine Advisory Opinion”. The event will take place on 24 April 2025 at 18:30, in HSZ/401/H (Hörsaalzentrum, Bergstraße 64, Dresden). All are warmly invited to attend. Further details are available here....
20.04.25 | |

12 Oct

Events The Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University is pleased to invite the public to the conference “Lessons for Transitional Justice in Israel-Palestine”, to be held on November 16-17, 2014 at Tel Aviv University. The conference builds on an academic collaboration between Israeli, Palestinian and South African students and researchers who participated last summer in an intensive two-week Transitional Justice Workshop at the University of Johannesburg. At the conference, international and local scholars will share perspectives on current theories and practices that can shed light on possible...
12.10.14 | |

31 Mar

...the University of Southampton on April 17-19th will engage controversial questions concerning the manner of Israel’s foundation and its nature, including ongoing forced displacements of Palestinians and associated injustices. The conference will examine how international law could be deployed, expanded, even re-imagined, in order to achieve regional peace and reconciliation based on justice. The conference is intended to broaden debates and legal arguments concerning historic Palestine and the nature, role, and potentialities of international law itself. Participants will be a part of a multidisciplinary debate reflecting diverse perspectives, and thus...
31.03.15 | |

22 Jul

I opened Facebook just now to find the following post from my brilliant student at SOAS, Tamara Tamimi, whose MA dissertation — written under my supervision — received the law school’s award for the best MA dissertation of the year: I am angry, frustrated and sad. I was denied entry clearance into the UK to attend my graduation from SOAS University of London. I finished my MA in Human Rights Law from SOAS, University of London ten months ago and returned to my homeland, Palestine. I decided to go through...
22.07.17 | |

19 Jul

...pre-state British Mandate which approved the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, without specifying its borders. To further the claims of Jewish settlers, the committee recommends streamlining bureaucratic obstacles to construction in the Jewish settlements, retroactively approving homes built without permits and relaxing restrictions on building on land claimed to be privately owned by Palestinians. Without subscribing to the recommendations of the Levy Committee or its justification for Israel’s territorial claims to the West Bank, I enthusiastically endorse its candor. For decades, Israeli government lawyers have argued that the...
19.07.12 | |

26 Jul

...a prior controversy involving HRW and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. HRW criticized Palestinian officials for urging civilians to serve as human shields. Anti-Israel commentators, led by rabidly anti-Israel activist Norman Finkelstein, went ballistic. So how did HRW react? Did Ken Roth say, “We report on Palestine. Its supporters fight back with lies and deception.” Did Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson accuse HRW’s critics of racism? Not exactly. HRW instead issued an abject apology. In fact, if you try to find the original press release on its website, you instead find...
26.07.09 | |

15 May

...ICC's Rome Statute in order to handle a specific case before them. In the future, if G.W. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and others were alleged to have authorized or abetted war crimes (e.g., torture and cruel, inhuman treatment of detainees) and crimes against humanity (e.g., secret detention) in Afghanistan, which is a party to the Rome Statute, and another party refers the case to the ICC, I do not believe that the ICC would have to address the entire conflict in Afghanistan and/or elsewhere in order to address the specific...
15.05.13 | |

04 Apr

...occurred “in the course of” armed conflict between Israel and the PA. This lawsuit, and six others with identical facts, will most likely go forward. Whether these lawsuits are helpful in ultimately resolving the Israel-PA conflict is less likely, especially when a U.S. court has to rule on questions such as Palestine’s statehood and the legality of its attacks under international law. But the victims have an undoubtedly powerful claim here and it is hard to say no to them, especially when the statutes plainly authorize these kinds of lawsuits....
04.04.06 | |

26 May

...Serbia. Israel could claim Iran has violated Article 3(c)’s prohibition on “direct and public incitement to commit genocide.” Still, even though it seems as if Iran’s president Ahmadinejad probably would like to annihilate Israel, I’m doubtful whether a claim for “inciting” genocide without any actual hostile actions that might constitute genocide will “succeed.” Moreover, Israel is just opening the door to a similar claim brought by Palestine (see here for a detailed roadmap for just such a suit) and can look forward to several years of very slow ICJ litigation....
26.05.06 | |

28 Sep

A federal district court in Washington has ruled that the answer is no. In Biton v. Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority, the court ruled that it had jurisdiction over the Palestinian Authority, and that recent developments do not confer sovereign immunity on defendant. The defendant argued that: We recognize that the court previously has held that [D]efendants are collaterally estopped from arguing that Palestine is a “foreign state” for purposes of the ATA. New developments, namely an Israeli court’s recognition that the [Palestinian Authority] is entitled to immunity and the Israeli...
28.09.07 | |

02 May

..."war"). But, however that may be, no statement to the effect that the US is "engaged in a war" could possibly provide any legal justification, either for any use of force in the sense of Article 2(4) of the Charter, or in any other sense (disregarding for a moment the possibility of a derogation from the ICCPR under its Article 4 - which is not openly dependent on any state of "war", and which in any event has never been declared). For present purposes of the attack in (arguably: on)...
02.05.08 | |

10 Jan

...If only some of the time spent on such matters was devoted to learning the history and daily experience of Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza (and elsewhere) up to and during this latest war, as well as coming to an honest assessment of precisely how and why the Israelis have driven themselves into an historical and political dead end. On the former see, for instance, Saree Makdisi's Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (New York: W. W. Norton, 2008), and for the latter, see Sylvain Cypel's Walled: Israeli Society...
10.01.09 | |