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11 Oct Rethinking International Law After Gaza Symposium: Trade, Resistance and International Law – Responding to Atrocities
...institutions. Suspension of arms trade is either not considered, or considered too late and at an insufficient scale. The larger question of international trade remains off-topic. Deploying a contrario reasoning, resistance movements regard trade as a potential intervention against states constantly exerting violent control and routinely killing people. Israeli violence in Palestine has also provoked the pursuit of trade as a resistance strategy in the form of a boycott (which has been running at different levels and degrees). For instance, many people avoid using products and companies supportive of the...
09 Jul Gaza, the ICJ, and Expertise in International Law: Who Can ‘Speak the Law’?
...communal public screenings, and heated debates on social media have elevated the vaunted halls of international justice into popular consciousness. In a recent piece for Opinion Juris, I argued that we have reached a new stage in international legal debates where vernacular accounts of international law fiercely challenge theoretical orthodoxy. And indeed, powerful vernacular conceptions of international law were and are on full display in the context of South Africa’s case, helping redefine expertise and legal knowledge. Supporters of Palestine watching a live screening of the genocide case with the...
27 May Affective Justice Symposium: Affected Justice–Using Criminal Justice as a Political Tool
...pursue justice at all costs for the victims of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – to be fair, there have been sporadic calls for movement, but these have been few and far between and not nearly as vociferous as the calls for justice for the victims where the not so powerful are implicated. In respect of the situation in Palestine, legal technical arguments about doubts concerning the statehood of Palestine are able to considerably slow down movement. In that conflict, as is the case in other situations that may implicate the powerful...16 Feb Another Dangerous Lawsuit — This One Involving a Former U.S. President
According to the Jerusalem Post, five purchasers of Jimmy Carter’s new book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid have filed a $5 million lawsuit in federal court in New York against Carter and Simon & Schuster, the book’s publisher. The lawsuit alleges that the book violates New York consumer-protection laws by claiming to be a work of non-fiction (my emphasis): The five plaintiffs in the suit, readers of the book, want their lawsuit, which seeks compensatory and punitive damages, to be deemed a class action, meaning that the plaintiffs would be seen...
31 Oct Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: “I Am Your Way Out” – Reading the Violence of Validation in International Law Through the Movie Sinners
...proposal, Eurocentric ideas were used to justify slavery, colonialism, theft of cultural artefacts, and unbridled interference in the affairs of countries in the Global South. This is also reflected in how the international community responds to international conflicts and determines which civilians are worthy of protection. A glaring hypocrisy is the reaction to the conflicts between Ukraine and Russia on the one hand, and Israel and Palestine on the other. In the former case, there was a swift rallying of support behind Ukraine, a European nation that was on the...