On the [F]Utility of International Law - Teaching Palestine Today

Teaching Palestine Today - Session 2: On the [F]Utility of International Law Featuring: Ardi Imseis Dianna Buttu Craig Mokhiber Noura Erakat Nimer Sultany Discussant: Dianna Buttu Moderator: Bassam Haddad Join our second session of “Teaching Palestine Today” series on The [F]Utility of International Law, curated from our speakers’ responses to the question “What have we learned about International Law in the past year+?” Featuring Ardi Imseis, Diana Buttu, Craig Mokhiber, Noura Erakat, and Nimer Sultany. Our discussant is Diana Buttu, with Bassam Haddad as moderator. Curated from our Series on “What Have We Learned,” Diana Buttu joins us to address responses to the question “What have we learned in the past year+ about International Law?” and provide an overview of where we stand today on this matter. This series is organized by the Gaza in Context Project and National Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, with more than 140 chapters nationwide. Featuring Ardi Imseis is Associate Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University. He is author of The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity (Cambridge University Press 2023). In 2019 he was named by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to serve as a Member of the UN commission of inquiry into the civil war in Yemen. Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and analyst based in Haifa and Communications Director to the Institute for Middle East Understanding. Diana previously worked as a legal advisor the Palestinian negotiating team. Diana was one of the lawyers who challenged the legality of Israel’s apartheid wall before the International Court of Justice. Craig Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations Official. He left the UN in October of 2023, penning a widely read letter that warned of genocide in Gaza, criticized the international response and called for a new approach to Palestine and Israel based on equality, human rights and international law. He has spent four decades in the international human rights movement, including more than thirty years at the United Nations. Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and a Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick Department of Africana Studies. Her research includes humanitarian law, refugee law, national security law, and critical race theory. Noura is the author of Justice for Some: Law As Politics in the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), a Co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya, and an Editorial Committee member of the Journal of Palestine Studies. Nimer Sultany is Reader in Public Law at SOAS University of London. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Palestine Yearbook of International Law. His book, “Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring” (OUP 2017) won the 2018 Book Prize awarded by the International Society of Public Law and the 2018 Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship awarded by the Society of Legal Scholars. Jadaliyya Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@Jadaliyya?sub_confirmation=1 http://instagram.com/jadaliyya http://twitter.com/jadaliyya http://jadaliyya.com #Jadaliyya