AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearKey Terms in Title or Summary
Meital Pinto "WHO ARE THE LANDLORDS HERE?" - GROUP RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF POPULISM: JEWISH OWNERSHIP OF SYMBOLIC AND GEOGRAPHIC SPACE IN ISRAEL 7 Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review 215 (Winter, 2024) The world is witnessing the rise of far-right political parties. In Israel's recent national legislative election, Jewish Power (Otzma Yehudit), a far-right, anti-Arab political party, reached an unprecedented achievement. The party won six seats in the Knesset and its leader, Itamar Ben Gvir was appointed as the Minister of National Security. Who... 2024
Author Meital Pinto
Title "WHO ARE THE LANDLORDS HERE?" - GROUP RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF POPULISM: JEWISH OWNERSHIP OF SYMBOLIC AND GEOGRAPHIC SPACE IN ISRAEL
Citation 7 Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review 215 (Winter, 2024)
Summary The world is witnessing the rise of far-right political parties. In Israel's recent national legislative election, Jewish Power (Otzma Yehudit), a far-right, anti-Arab political party, reached an unprecedented achievement. The party won six seats in the Knesset and its leader, Itamar Ben Gvir was appointed as the Minister of National Security. Who...
Year 2024
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Samuel Horowitz A ONE-STATE SOLUTION TO THE ARAB-ISRAELI/ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT: A RECOMMENDATION SUPPORTED BY A REVIEW OF THE HISTORICAL RECORD AND CURRENT CONTEXT 47 UC Law SF International Law Review 65 (June, 2024) This article examines the legal underpinning of the creation of the state of Israel and historical documents to note that despite calls for a two-state solution at the UN, a one-state solution to the conflict is not necessarily precluded. It then identifies why both the status quo and the proposed two-state solution are problematic and untenable.... 2024 Palestinan
Author Samuel Horowitz
Title A ONE-STATE SOLUTION TO THE ARAB-ISRAELI/ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT: A RECOMMENDATION SUPPORTED BY A REVIEW OF THE HISTORICAL RECORD AND CURRENT CONTEXT
Citation 47 UC Law SF International Law Review 65 (June, 2024)
Summary This article examines the legal underpinning of the creation of the state of Israel and historical documents to note that despite calls for a two-state solution at the UN, a one-state solution to the conflict is not necessarily precluded. It then identifies why both the status quo and the proposed two-state solution are problematic and untenable....
Year 2024
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Maryam Jamshidi A TRANSFORMATIONAL AGENDA FOR NATIONAL SECURITY 2024 University of Chicago Legal Forum 161 (2024) Past efforts to reimagine national security in legal scholarship have largely avoided systematic engagement with the foundational assumptions and presumptions of the field. Challenging and critiquing those assumptions is, however, necessary to producing scholarly work that reimagines, rather than reproduces, status quo approaches to U.S. national... 2024
Author Maryam Jamshidi
Title A TRANSFORMATIONAL AGENDA FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
Citation 2024 University of Chicago Legal Forum 161 (2024)
Summary Past efforts to reimagine national security in legal scholarship have largely avoided systematic engagement with the foundational assumptions and presumptions of the field. Challenging and critiquing those assumptions is, however, necessary to producing scholarly work that reimagines, rather than reproduces, status quo approaches to U.S. national...
Year 2024
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Neve Gordon BETWEEN HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY: THE CASE OF ISRAEL'S APARTHEID ENABLERS 49 Law and Social Inquiry 1426 (August, 2024) For decades, human rights organizations have exposed egregious abuses carried out by states across the globe. Yet, simultaneously, other national and transnational civil society actors have waged war on these human rights organizations to shield rights-abusive states from accountability. These assaults have increasingly resulted in the normative... 2024
Author Neve Gordon
Title BETWEEN HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY: THE CASE OF ISRAEL'S APARTHEID ENABLERS
Citation 49 Law and Social Inquiry 1426 (August, 2024)
Summary For decades, human rights organizations have exposed egregious abuses carried out by states across the globe. Yet, simultaneously, other national and transnational civil society actors have waged war on these human rights organizations to shield rights-abusive states from accountability. These assaults have increasingly resulted in the normative...
Year 2024
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Tolu Lawal, Al Brooks CHARACTER AND FITNESS IN AMERICA'S NEO-REDEMPTIVE ERA 27 CUNY Law Review 143 (Winter, 2024) Introduction. 145 I. Reconstruction, Redemption, and White Grievance Politic. 148 A. Reconstruction. 148 B. Redemption. 149 C. White Grievance Groundhog Days. 152 II. Law as a Communication of Redemptive Power: The Backlash Against Democratization and the Return of White Supremacist Legal Hegemony. 155 A. The Origin of Character and Fitness... 2024
Author Tolu Lawal, Al Brooks
Title CHARACTER AND FITNESS IN AMERICA'S NEO-REDEMPTIVE ERA
Citation 27 CUNY Law Review 143 (Winter, 2024)
Summary Introduction. 145 I. Reconstruction, Redemption, and White Grievance Politic. 148 A. Reconstruction. 148 B. Redemption. 149 C. White Grievance Groundhog Days. 152 II. Law as a Communication of Redemptive Power: The Backlash Against Democratization and the Return of White Supremacist Legal Hegemony. 155 A. The Origin of Character and Fitness...
Year 2024
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Kai Ambos CRIMINAL "APARTHEID" IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY?: A CALL FOR A MORE NUANCED APPROACH FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW 47 Fordham International Law Journal 485 (September, 2024) This is a legal doctrinal inquiry into the claim that Israel's policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) constitute apartheid. Its purpose is to provide a more nuanced analysis which more clearly distinguishes between legal/doctrinal and political/policy arguments. While the popular, non-legal use of the apartheid claim... 2024 Palestinan
Author Kai Ambos
Title CRIMINAL "APARTHEID" IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY?: A CALL FOR A MORE NUANCED APPROACH FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW
Citation 47 Fordham International Law Journal 485 (September, 2024)
Summary This is a legal doctrinal inquiry into the claim that Israel's policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) constitute apartheid. Its purpose is to provide a more nuanced analysis which more clearly distinguishes between legal/doctrinal and political/policy arguments. While the popular, non-legal use of the apartheid claim...
Year 2024
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Mohammad Fadel LAW BREAKING, LAW MAKING, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: PALESTINE, ISRAEL, AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 65 Virginia Journal of International Law Online 1 (2024) This Essay argues that the Israel-Palestine conflict's prominent place in global consciousness reflects deep disagreement on the nature of post-World War II international law and the relationship between power, sovereignty, and legitimacy in that order. It argues that the Zionist movement and then the State of Israel, by creating facts on the... 2024 Palestinan
Author Mohammad Fadel
Title LAW BREAKING, LAW MAKING, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: PALESTINE, ISRAEL, AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
Citation 65 Virginia Journal of International Law Online 1 (2024)
Summary This Essay argues that the Israel-Palestine conflict's prominent place in global consciousness reflects deep disagreement on the nature of post-World War II international law and the relationship between power, sovereignty, and legitimacy in that order. It argues that the Zionist movement and then the State of Israel, by creating facts on the...
Year 2024
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Jeremy Rabkin NOT AN APARTHEID STATE, A DEFAMED STATE 47 Fordham International Law Journal 617 (September, 2024) I. INTRODUCTION. 617 II. A CRIME WITH ONLY ONE LOCUS. 619 III. SECURITY MEASURES MUST BE JUDGED IN CONTEXT. 623 IV. NOT ALL SEPARATION IS APARTHEID. 628 V. ISRAELI NATIONALITY IS NOT A RACE. 632 VI. CONCLUSION. 634 2024
Author Jeremy Rabkin
Title NOT AN APARTHEID STATE, A DEFAMED STATE
Citation 47 Fordham International Law Journal 617 (September, 2024)
Summary I. INTRODUCTION. 617 II. A CRIME WITH ONLY ONE LOCUS. 619 III. SECURITY MEASURES MUST BE JUDGED IN CONTEXT. 623 IV. NOT ALL SEPARATION IS APARTHEID. 628 V. ISRAELI NATIONALITY IS NOT A RACE. 632 VI. CONCLUSION. 634
Year 2024
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Sahar Aziz RACING RELIGION IN THE PALESTINE-ISRAEL DISCOURSE 118 AJIL Unbound 118 (2024) Race is a Western political project. Religious freedom is a Christian political project. The linkages between the two enabled European nations and their settlers across the globe to condemn natives, slaves, and non-European immigrants to inferior status, and in turn legalize control of their lands and bodies. The consequent race-religion systems of... 2024 Palestinan
Author Sahar Aziz
Title RACING RELIGION IN THE PALESTINE-ISRAEL DISCOURSE
Citation 118 AJIL Unbound 118 (2024)
Summary Race is a Western political project. Religious freedom is a Christian political project. The linkages between the two enabled European nations and their settlers across the globe to condemn natives, slaves, and non-European immigrants to inferior status, and in turn legalize control of their lands and bodies. The consequent race-religion systems of...
Year 2024
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Rabea Eghbariah TOWARD NAKBA AS A LEGAL CONCEPT 124 Columbia Law Review 887 (May, 2024) The law does not possess the language that we desperately need to accurately capture the totality of the Palestinian condition. From occupation to apartheid and genocide, the most commonly applied legal concepts rely on abstraction and analogy to reveal particular facets of subordination. This Article introduces Nakba as a legal concept to resolve... 2024
Author Rabea Eghbariah
Title TOWARD NAKBA AS A LEGAL CONCEPT
Citation 124 Columbia Law Review 887 (May, 2024)
Summary The law does not possess the language that we desperately need to accurately capture the totality of the Palestinian condition. From occupation to apartheid and genocide, the most commonly applied legal concepts rely on abstraction and analogy to reveal particular facets of subordination. This Article introduces Nakba as a legal concept to resolve...
Year 2024
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The Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest) TRANSCRIPT OF "BUT WE MUST SPEAK: ON PALESTINE AND THE MANDATES OF CONSCIENCE" 28 U.C. Davis Social Justice Law Review 103 (Summer, 2024) Panelists Include: Michelle Alexander, Morgan Bassichis, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Natalie Diaz, Mohammed El-Kurd, Yasmin El-Rifae, Noura Erakat, Rev Raschaad Hoggard, Rashid Khalidi C1-2Table of Contents Background from the Symposium Hosts. 105 Introduction by Michelle Alexander & Yasmin El-Rifae. 106 Poetry Recited by Mohammed El-Kurd. 111 Conversation... 2024 Palestinan
Author The Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest)
Title TRANSCRIPT OF "BUT WE MUST SPEAK: ON PALESTINE AND THE MANDATES OF CONSCIENCE"
Citation 28 U.C. Davis Social Justice Law Review 103 (Summer, 2024)
Summary Panelists Include: Michelle Alexander, Morgan Bassichis, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Natalie Diaz, Mohammed El-Kurd, Yasmin El-Rifae, Noura Erakat, Rev Raschaad Hoggard, Rashid Khalidi C1-2Table of Contents Background from the Symposium Hosts. 105 Introduction by Michelle Alexander & Yasmin El-Rifae. 106 Poetry Recited by Mohammed El-Kurd. 111 Conversation...
Year 2024
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Marissa Jackson Sow WHITENESS AS CONTRACT IN THE RACIAL SUPERSTATE 14 UC Irvine Law Review 459 (May, 2024) Despite the United Nations' (UN) ongoing commemoration of the International Decade for People of African Descent and direct calls from UN member states for the body to confront systemic racism in the United States, the United States has with the support of its allies--successfully blocked measures beyond those which gently encourage mere aspiration... 2024
Author Marissa Jackson Sow
Title WHITENESS AS CONTRACT IN THE RACIAL SUPERSTATE
Citation 14 UC Irvine Law Review 459 (May, 2024)
Summary Despite the United Nations' (UN) ongoing commemoration of the International Decade for People of African Descent and direct calls from UN member states for the body to confront systemic racism in the United States, the United States has with the support of its allies--successfully blocked measures beyond those which gently encourage mere aspiration...
Year 2024
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E. Tendayi Achiume , Gay McDougall ANTI-RACISM AT THE UNITED NATIONS 117 AJIL Unbound 82 (2023) Racial injustice and inequality remain contested internationally, and the United Nations remains a prominent site for this contestation. In this essay, we describe the architecture designated by the United Nations to address racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance. We highlight recent normative and institutional... 2023
Author E. Tendayi Achiume , Gay McDougall
Title ANTI-RACISM AT THE UNITED NATIONS
Citation 117 AJIL Unbound 82 (2023)
Summary Racial injustice and inequality remain contested internationally, and the United Nations remains a prominent site for this contestation. In this essay, we describe the architecture designated by the United Nations to address racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance. We highlight recent normative and institutional...
Year 2023
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Itamar Mann BETWEEN ASYLUM AND LIBERATION: THE NEW PALESTINIAN REFUGEES 34 European Journal of International Law 491 (May, 2023) Contemporary Palestinian asylum seekers raise fundamental questions regarding the relationship between the institution of asylum and struggles for national liberation. Underlying the legal framework that applies to them is an assumption of inverse correlation: the more Palestinians obtain access to individual asylum claims, the less secure are the... 2023 Palestinian
Author Itamar Mann
Title BETWEEN ASYLUM AND LIBERATION: THE NEW PALESTINIAN REFUGEES
Citation 34 European Journal of International Law 491 (May, 2023)
Summary Contemporary Palestinian asylum seekers raise fundamental questions regarding the relationship between the institution of asylum and struggles for national liberation. Underlying the legal framework that applies to them is an assumption of inverse correlation: the more Palestinians obtain access to individual asylum claims, the less secure are the...
Year 2023
Key Terms in Title or Summary Palestinian
Yael Cohen-Rimer PALESTINIAN WOMEN AND HOUSING LAWS IN ISRAEL: A CASE STUDY OF LEGAL AND EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE 6 Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review 349 (Spring, 2023) This Article is built on a legal metaphor. In criminal law, we discuss whether an actor has the mens rea for a crime. I argue in this paper that judicial review of cases related to rights infringements involve a similar inquiry. In applying discrimination laws, courts actually, though sometimes not explicitly, search for anything between intent and... 2023 Palestinian
Author Yael Cohen-Rimer
Title PALESTINIAN WOMEN AND HOUSING LAWS IN ISRAEL: A CASE STUDY OF LEGAL AND EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE
Citation 6 Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review 349 (Spring, 2023)
Summary This Article is built on a legal metaphor. In criminal law, we discuss whether an actor has the mens rea for a crime. I argue in this paper that judicial review of cases related to rights infringements involve a similar inquiry. In applying discrimination laws, courts actually, though sometimes not explicitly, search for anything between intent and...
Year 2023
Key Terms in Title or Summary Palestinian
Noura Erakat , Darryl Li , John Reynolds RACE, PALESTINE, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW 117 AJIL Unbound 77 (2023) In 1922, the League of Nations inscribed the goal of establishing a settler colony in Palestine for the Jewish people--in denial of the national self-determination of the Indigenous Arab population--in public international law. The Palestine Mandate juridically erased the national status of the Palestinian people by: (1) framing the Arabs as... 2023 Palestinian
Author Noura Erakat , Darryl Li , John Reynolds
Title RACE, PALESTINE, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
Citation 117 AJIL Unbound 77 (2023)
Summary In 1922, the League of Nations inscribed the goal of establishing a settler colony in Palestine for the Jewish people--in denial of the national self-determination of the Indigenous Arab population--in public international law. The Palestine Mandate juridically erased the national status of the Palestinian people by: (1) framing the Arabs as...
Year 2023
Key Terms in Title or Summary Palestinian
Elena Hodges STATE-COURT LIABILITY FOR U.S. ENTITIES FURTHERING INTERNATIONAL HARMS: TORT CAUSATION & U.S. FINANCIERS OF ISRAELI SETTLER ORGANIZATIONS DISPOSSESSING PALESTINIANS IN SHEIKH JARRAH 47 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 49 (2023) In an age of drastically narrowed federal-court remedies, this Article offers a new framework to hold a range of U.S. actors accountable for facilitating grave human rights abuses and international-law violations abroad. The Article responds to impacted communities' and international human rights practitioners' search for different legal tools in a... 2023 Palestinian
Author Elena Hodges
Title STATE-COURT LIABILITY FOR U.S. ENTITIES FURTHERING INTERNATIONAL HARMS: TORT CAUSATION & U.S. FINANCIERS OF ISRAELI SETTLER ORGANIZATIONS DISPOSSESSING PALESTINIANS IN SHEIKH JARRAH
Citation 47 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 49 (2023)
Summary In an age of drastically narrowed federal-court remedies, this Article offers a new framework to hold a range of U.S. actors accountable for facilitating grave human rights abuses and international-law violations abroad. The Article responds to impacted communities' and international human rights practitioners' search for different legal tools in a...
Year 2023
Key Terms in Title or Summary Palestinian
S. Priya Morley CONNECTING RACE AND EMPIRE: WHAT CRITICAL RACE THEORY OFFERS OUTSIDE THE U.S. LEGAL CONTEXT 69 UCLA Law Review Discourse 100 (2022) The renewed solidarity across movements and borders in recent years underscores the importance of transnational understandings of racial justice. This is particularly true in the current moment, in which global crises such as migration and climate change are laying bare the persistent impacts of structural racism and colonial subordination around... 2022
Author S. Priya Morley
Title CONNECTING RACE AND EMPIRE: WHAT CRITICAL RACE THEORY OFFERS OUTSIDE THE U.S. LEGAL CONTEXT
Citation 69 UCLA Law Review Discourse 100 (2022)
Summary The renewed solidarity across movements and borders in recent years underscores the importance of transnational understandings of racial justice. This is particularly true in the current moment, in which global crises such as migration and climate change are laying bare the persistent impacts of structural racism and colonial subordination around...
Year 2022
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Zeina Jallad PLURAL BELONGING: THE SAMARITANS' NEGOTIATION OF SPACE IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY 37 American University International Law Review 551 (2022) I. INTRODUCTION. 552 II. PALESTINE: THE CHALLENGES OF A PLURALISTIC LEGAL SYSTEM. 559 A. Legal Pluralism in Palestine: An Unprotective State-Citizen Nexus. 559 B. The Inaccessibility of the Palestinian Justice System and the Outsized Role of Religious Courts. 568 III. THE SAMARITANS: A COMMUNITY THRIVING IN CHAOS. 571 A. The Curious Creation of a... 2022 Palestinian
Author Zeina Jallad
Title PLURAL BELONGING: THE SAMARITANS' NEGOTIATION OF SPACE IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
Citation 37 American University International Law Review 551 (2022)
Summary I. INTRODUCTION. 552 II. PALESTINE: THE CHALLENGES OF A PLURALISTIC LEGAL SYSTEM. 559 A. Legal Pluralism in Palestine: An Unprotective State-Citizen Nexus. 559 B. The Inaccessibility of the Palestinian Justice System and the Outsized Role of Religious Courts. 568 III. THE SAMARITANS: A COMMUNITY THRIVING IN CHAOS. 571 A. The Curious Creation of a...
Year 2022
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Christiane Wilke REVIEW ESSAY: IMPLICATED IN VIOLENCE: SOCIO-LEGAL APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW 10 London Review of International Law 105 (March, 2022) Kamari Maxine Clarke, Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback (Duke University Press 2020). Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press 2019). Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini, Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire (University of California... 2022 Palestinian
Author Christiane Wilke
Title REVIEW ESSAY: IMPLICATED IN VIOLENCE: SOCIO-LEGAL APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW
Citation 10 London Review of International Law 105 (March, 2022)
Summary Kamari Maxine Clarke, Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback (Duke University Press 2020). Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press 2019). Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini, Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire (University of California...
Year 2022
Key Terms in Title or Summary Palestinian
Catherine DeMetrovich THE OSLO ACCORDS: A MODERN-DAY STORY OF OCCUPATION TOLD THROUGH VIOLATIONS OF THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF PRIVACY 98 Indiana Law Journal 307 (Winter 2022) The Israeli-Palestinian conflict began in the early 1900s when the disputed land, what is now the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, fell under British rule. After the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel took control of the West Bank, Golan Heights, and the Gaza Strip. Since then, tensions between Israel and Palestine have continued to grow. This Note explores... 2022 Gaza, Palestinian, West Bank
Author Catherine DeMetrovich
Title THE OSLO ACCORDS: A MODERN-DAY STORY OF OCCUPATION TOLD THROUGH VIOLATIONS OF THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF PRIVACY
Citation 98 Indiana Law Journal 307 (Winter 2022)
Summary The Israeli-Palestinian conflict began in the early 1900s when the disputed land, what is now the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, fell under British rule. After the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel took control of the West Bank, Golan Heights, and the Gaza Strip. Since then, tensions between Israel and Palestine have continued to grow. This Note explores...
Year 2022
Key Terms in Title or Summary Gaza, Palestinian, West Bank
Itamar Mann , Yael Berda VOTING AS A VEHICLE FOR SELF-DETERMINATION IN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL 100 Texas Law Review 941 (April, 2022) Through a study of the situation in Palestine and Israel, this Essay argues that collective self-determination can, in some circumstances, be realized through voting in the political system of an occupying power. More specifically, we contend that (1) a power exercising indefinite occupation has a duty to grant voting rights in its own domestic... 2022 Palestinian
Author Itamar Mann , Yael Berda
Title VOTING AS A VEHICLE FOR SELF-DETERMINATION IN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL
Citation 100 Texas Law Review 941 (April, 2022)
Summary Through a study of the situation in Palestine and Israel, this Essay argues that collective self-determination can, in some circumstances, be realized through voting in the political system of an occupying power. More specifically, we contend that (1) a power exercising indefinite occupation has a duty to grant voting rights in its own domestic...
Year 2022
Key Terms in Title or Summary Palestinian
Dina Awshah CIVIL RIGHTS? BUT NOT FOR YOU: CHILLING A GLOBALIZED PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE MOVEMENT'S FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION PROTECTIONS AS GUARANTEED BY THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS 53 Georgetown Journal of International Law 125 (Fall, 2021) The past decade has seen both an increase in Israeli violence against Palestinians and a notable surge in global solidarity with Palestine. One of the most effective solidarity movements has been the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, created by a coalition of Palestinian civil society activists in 2005. With the increase in... 2021 Palestinian
Author Dina Awshah
Title CIVIL RIGHTS? BUT NOT FOR YOU: CHILLING A GLOBALIZED PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE MOVEMENT'S FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION PROTECTIONS AS GUARANTEED BY THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS
Citation 53 Georgetown Journal of International Law 125 (Fall, 2021)
Summary The past decade has seen both an increase in Israeli violence against Palestinians and a notable surge in global solidarity with Palestine. One of the most effective solidarity movements has been the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, created by a coalition of Palestinian civil society activists in 2005. With the increase in...
Year 2021
Key Terms in Title or Summary Palestinian
Aliaa Almehdar FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS: FACEBOOK'S MODERATION BEHAVIOR ON PALESTINE'S MAY 2021 MOVEMENT 54 New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 207 (Fall, 2021) I. Terms of Service as a Contractual Relationship and the Facebook Oversight Board. 210 II. Market Pressure, Competition, and Content Moderation. 211 III. Government Regulation of Content Moderation on Social Media Platforms. 213 IV. Violation of Freedom of Expression Laws by Platforms. 215 V. Social Media and the Communication Channel with the... 2021 Palestinian
Author Aliaa Almehdar
Title FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS: FACEBOOK'S MODERATION BEHAVIOR ON PALESTINE'S MAY 2021 MOVEMENT
Citation 54 New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 207 (Fall, 2021)
Summary I. Terms of Service as a Contractual Relationship and the Facebook Oversight Board. 210 II. Market Pressure, Competition, and Content Moderation. 211 III. Government Regulation of Content Moderation on Social Media Platforms. 213 IV. Violation of Freedom of Expression Laws by Platforms. 215 V. Social Media and the Communication Channel with the...
Year 2021
Key Terms in Title or Summary Palestinian
Mila Kelly LEGAL LIABILITY FOR CORPORATIONS DOING BUSINESS IN THE WEST BANK: AN ANALYSIS OF CORPORATE LIABILITY AND A SHAREHOLDER PROPOSAL SOLUTION FOR MITIGATING RISKY BUSINESS ACTIVITY 12 William & Mary Business Law Review 803 (April, 2021) For over half a century, Israeli Settlements in the occupied West Bank have expanded significantly in both land and economic activity. While this expansion has not been without criticism from the international community over fear of humanitarian law violations, global businesses have not shied away from the profitability of this region. This... 2021 West Bank
Author Mila Kelly
Title LEGAL LIABILITY FOR CORPORATIONS DOING BUSINESS IN THE WEST BANK: AN ANALYSIS OF CORPORATE LIABILITY AND A SHAREHOLDER PROPOSAL SOLUTION FOR MITIGATING RISKY BUSINESS ACTIVITY
Citation 12 William & Mary Business Law Review 803 (April, 2021)
Summary For over half a century, Israeli Settlements in the occupied West Bank have expanded significantly in both land and economic activity. While this expansion has not been without criticism from the international community over fear of humanitarian law violations, global businesses have not shied away from the profitability of this region. This...
Year 2021
Key Terms in Title or Summary West Bank
Hassan Jabareen HOW THE LAW OF RETURN CREATES ONE LEGAL ORDER IN PALESTINE 21 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 459 (July, 2020) The prevailing discourse in Israeli academia on justifying the values of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state takes the form of a debate involving questions of group rights of a national minority, as in any liberal democracy. The framework of this discourse relies on three interconnected, hegemonic assertions. These assertions assume the... 2020 Palestinian
Author Hassan Jabareen
Title HOW THE LAW OF RETURN CREATES ONE LEGAL ORDER IN PALESTINE
Citation 21 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 459 (July, 2020)
Summary The prevailing discourse in Israeli academia on justifying the values of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state takes the form of a debate involving questions of group rights of a national minority, as in any liberal democracy. The framework of this discourse relies on three interconnected, hegemonic assertions. These assertions assume the...
Year 2020
Key Terms in Title or Summary Palestinian
Ardi Imseis NEGOTIATING THE ILLEGAL: ON THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE ILLEGAL OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE, 1967-2020 31 European Journal of International Law 1055 (August, 2020) This article takes a critical look at the United Nations' commitment to the international rule of law through an examination of its position on occupied Palestine post 1967. Occupation of enemy territory is meant to be temporary, and the occupying power may not rightfully claim sovereignty over such territory. Since 1967, Israel has systematically... 2020 Palestinian
Author Ardi Imseis
Title NEGOTIATING THE ILLEGAL: ON THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE ILLEGAL OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE, 1967-2020
Citation 31 European Journal of International Law 1055 (August, 2020)
Summary This article takes a critical look at the United Nations' commitment to the international rule of law through an examination of its position on occupied Palestine post 1967. Occupation of enemy territory is meant to be temporary, and the occupying power may not rightfully claim sovereignty over such territory. Since 1967, Israel has systematically...
Year 2020
Key Terms in Title or Summary Palestinian
Mia Lattanzi SETTLER COLONIALISM THROUGH THE COURT: DOMESTIC INTERPRETATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 24 UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 201 (Spring, 2020) Since 2002, Israel has been building the Separation Wall to divide Israel and certain Israeli settlements from the rest of the occupied Palestinian West Bank. The Wall's construction prompted a series of court cases before the International Court of Justice and the Israeli High Court of Justice, debating the Wall's legality under humanitarian and... 2020 Palestinian, West Bank
Author Mia Lattanzi
Title SETTLER COLONIALISM THROUGH THE COURT: DOMESTIC INTERPRETATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
Citation 24 UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 201 (Spring, 2020)
Summary Since 2002, Israel has been building the Separation Wall to divide Israel and certain Israeli settlements from the rest of the occupied Palestinian West Bank. The Wall's construction prompted a series of court cases before the International Court of Justice and the Israeli High Court of Justice, debating the Wall's legality under humanitarian and...
Year 2020
Key Terms in Title or Summary Palestinian, West Bank
William Thomas Worster TERRITORIAL STATUS TRIGGERING A FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO STATEHOOD 8 Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs 118 (2020) C1-3Table of Contents L1-2119120120128128139143146164168179 I. Introduction. 119 II. Functional Statehood Based on Status. 120 A. Functional personality. 120 B. Functional statehood based on status. 128 1. Colonial Empires/Mandates/Protected States. 128 2. Occupied and Annexed States. 139 3. Internationalized Territories. 143 4. Entities in... 2020
Author William Thomas Worster
Title TERRITORIAL STATUS TRIGGERING A FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO STATEHOOD
Citation 8 Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs 118 (2020)
Summary C1-3Table of Contents L1-2119120120128128139143146164168179 I. Introduction. 119 II. Functional Statehood Based on Status. 120 A. Functional personality. 120 B. Functional statehood based on status. 128 1. Colonial Empires/Mandates/Protected States. 128 2. Occupied and Annexed States. 139 3. Internationalized Territories. 143 4. Entities in...
Year 2020
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Ariel Zemach THE EMERGING RIGHT OF WEST BANK PALESTINIANS TO ISRAELI CITIZENSHIP 42 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 271 (Fall, 2020) This Article explores a path in international law for recognizing the right of the Palestinian population of the West Bank to Israeli citizenship, based on the annexationist policies of Israel in the West Bank. The scope of the obligation of states to confer citizenship on individuals is determined by international human rights law (IHRL). The... 2020 Palestinian, West Bank
Author Ariel Zemach
Title THE EMERGING RIGHT OF WEST BANK PALESTINIANS TO ISRAELI CITIZENSHIP
Citation 42 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 271 (Fall, 2020)
Summary This Article explores a path in international law for recognizing the right of the Palestinian population of the West Bank to Israeli citizenship, based on the annexationist policies of Israel in the West Bank. The scope of the obligation of states to confer citizenship on individuals is determined by international human rights law (IHRL). The...
Year 2020
Key Terms in Title or Summary Palestinian, West Bank
Cruz Rodriguez THE LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF U.S. POLICE DEPARTMENTS COLLABORATING WITH ISRAELI SECURITY FORCES 26 Public Interest Law Reporter 8 (Fall, 2020) The murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) shocked the world, setting off protests across the United States and globally. The viral video of his murder showed how Derek Chauvin, the MPD officer conducting an arrest, nonchalantly pressed his knee onto Mr. Floyd's neck for over eight straight minutes.... 2020
Author Cruz Rodriguez
Title THE LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF U.S. POLICE DEPARTMENTS COLLABORATING WITH ISRAELI SECURITY FORCES
Citation 26 Public Interest Law Reporter 8 (Fall, 2020)
Summary The murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) shocked the world, setting off protests across the United States and globally. The viral video of his murder showed how Derek Chauvin, the MPD officer conducting an arrest, nonchalantly pressed his knee onto Mr. Floyd's neck for over eight straight minutes....
Year 2020
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Issa Al-Aweel FEDERALISM: NECESSARY LEGAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL MIDDLE EASTERN STATES 31 Pace International Law Review 293 (Spring, 2019) The Central Middle East--comprising of Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and Jordan--is in need of a legal foundation defined by a constitutional umbrella that governs it as a whole. This is a proposed broad structure of such legal foundation that serves regional legal and economic needs and includes recognition of human rights. The need for such... 2019 Palestinian
Author Issa Al-Aweel
Title FEDERALISM: NECESSARY LEGAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL MIDDLE EASTERN STATES
Citation 31 Pace International Law Review 293 (Spring, 2019)
Summary The Central Middle East--comprising of Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and Jordan--is in need of a legal foundation defined by a constitutional umbrella that governs it as a whole. This is a proposed broad structure of such legal foundation that serves regional legal and economic needs and includes recognition of human rights. The need for such...
Year 2019
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Sarah Koslov INCITEMENT AND THE GEOPOLITICAL INFLUENCE OF FACEBOOK CONTENT MODERATION 4 Georgetown Law Technology Review 183 (Fall, 2019) C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 184 II. An Overview of Facebook's Community Standards: Guidelines, Implementation, and Governance in Israeli and Palestinian Territories. 187 A. Facebook's Publicly Available Community Standards Are Articulated in Broad Terms to Facilitate Global Applicability, but Their Acontextual Framing Invites Subjective... 2019 Palestinian
Author Sarah Koslov
Title INCITEMENT AND THE GEOPOLITICAL INFLUENCE OF FACEBOOK CONTENT MODERATION
Citation 4 Georgetown Law Technology Review 183 (Fall, 2019)
Summary C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 184 II. An Overview of Facebook's Community Standards: Guidelines, Implementation, and Governance in Israeli and Palestinian Territories. 187 A. Facebook's Publicly Available Community Standards Are Articulated in Broad Terms to Facilitate Global Applicability, but Their Acontextual Framing Invites Subjective...
Year 2019
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Alexander B. Traum APPLIED ANTI-SEMITISM: THE BDS MOVEMENT AND THE ABUSE OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 34 Touro Law Review 1025 (2018) In their efforts to demonize, delegitimize and, ultimately, destroy Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, activists in the so-called Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (hereinafter BDS) movement target a wide range of Israeli institutions including, among others, universities, non-profit arts groups, and for-profit companies. As its name... 2018
Author Alexander B. Traum
Title APPLIED ANTI-SEMITISM: THE BDS MOVEMENT AND THE ABUSE OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Citation 34 Touro Law Review 1025 (2018)
Summary In their efforts to demonize, delegitimize and, ultimately, destroy Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, activists in the so-called Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (hereinafter BDS) movement target a wide range of Israeli institutions including, among others, universities, non-profit arts groups, and for-profit companies. As its name...
Year 2018
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Michael Nesbitt DUE PROCESS IN UN COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY: A LEGAL ANALYSIS OF THE PROCEDURES OF GOLDSTONE'S GAZA INQUIRY 18 German Law Journal 127 (1/1/2017) Throughout its history, the United Nations has resorted to large-scale ad hoc Commissions of Inquiry (UN COIs) to investigate serious international incidents. These UN COIs have often been highly political affairs, though their tasks and goals--including most recently investigating reports of war crimes or crimes against humanity the world... 2017 Gaza
Author Michael Nesbitt
Title DUE PROCESS IN UN COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY: A LEGAL ANALYSIS OF THE PROCEDURES OF GOLDSTONE'S GAZA INQUIRY
Citation 18 German Law Journal 127 (1/1/2017)
Summary Throughout its history, the United Nations has resorted to large-scale ad hoc Commissions of Inquiry (UN COIs) to investigate serious international incidents. These UN COIs have often been highly political affairs, though their tasks and goals--including most recently investigating reports of war crimes or crimes against humanity the world...
Year 2017
Key Terms in Title or Summary Gaza
Theodor Meron THE WEST BANK AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW ON THE EVE OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIX-DAY WAR 111 American Journal of International Law 357 (April, 2017) The West Bank and the Settlements, again? Readers may have had enough of this subject. But these are exceptional times. The adoption by the Security Council of Resolution 2334 on December 23, 2016, the unprecedented speech by Secretary Kerry delivered shortly thereafter, and the immediate rejection of both by Prime Minister Netanyahu, combined with... 2017 West Bank
Author Theodor Meron
Title THE WEST BANK AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW ON THE EVE OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIX-DAY WAR
Citation 111 American Journal of International Law 357 (April, 2017)
Summary The West Bank and the Settlements, again? Readers may have had enough of this subject. But these are exceptional times. The adoption by the Security Council of Resolution 2334 on December 23, 2016, the unprecedented speech by Secretary Kerry delivered shortly thereafter, and the immediate rejection of both by Prime Minister Netanyahu, combined with...
Year 2017
Key Terms in Title or Summary West Bank
Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar DIGNITY TAKINGS AND DISPOSSESSION IN ISRAEL 41 Law and Social Inquiry 866 (Fall, 2016) This article examines the concept of dignity takings, as developed by Bernadette Atuahene, and its applicability to the Israeli situation, focusing on takings from the Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel. Although I find dignity takings a valuable concept, as it emphasizes the interconnections between land dispossession and the denial of human... 2016 Palestinian
Author Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar
Title DIGNITY TAKINGS AND DISPOSSESSION IN ISRAEL
Citation 41 Law and Social Inquiry 866 (Fall, 2016)
Summary This article examines the concept of dignity takings, as developed by Bernadette Atuahene, and its applicability to the Israeli situation, focusing on takings from the Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel. Although I find dignity takings a valuable concept, as it emphasizes the interconnections between land dispossession and the denial of human...
Year 2016
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Whosam El-Coolaq TEACHING ISRAEL/PALESTINE ISSUES AT HARVARD: INTERVIEW WITH DUNCAN KENNEDY 10 Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left 36 (2015) It's great to be here--really a pleasure to do this. The basic idea is that law students can get a surprisingly larger, deeper understanding of Israel/Palestine conflicts by looking at their legalities. The way the conflicts are resolved or not is not determined only by power and violence. Legality plays a role. The course has about equal attention... 2015 Palestinian
Author Whosam El-Coolaq
Title TEACHING ISRAEL/PALESTINE ISSUES AT HARVARD: INTERVIEW WITH DUNCAN KENNEDY
Citation 10 Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left 36 (2015)
Summary It's great to be here--really a pleasure to do this. The basic idea is that law students can get a surprisingly larger, deeper understanding of Israel/Palestine conflicts by looking at their legalities. The way the conflicts are resolved or not is not determined only by power and violence. Legality plays a role. The course has about equal attention...
Year 2015
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Jordan J. Paust TEN TYPES OF ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN VIOLATIONS OF THE LAWS OF WAR AND THE ICC 31 Connecticut Journal of International Law 27 (Fall, 2015) Introduction. 29 I. Application of Hague, Geneva, and Customary Law to Territories Occupied by Israel. 30 II. Four Specific Types of Israeli Conduct. 36 A. Collective Penalties. 36 B. Deportation of Civilians. 39 C. Infusion of One's Own Nationals into Occupied Territory. 41 D. Annexation of Occupied Territory. 43 III. Six Specific Types of... 2015 Palestinian
Author Jordan J. Paust
Title TEN TYPES OF ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN VIOLATIONS OF THE LAWS OF WAR AND THE ICC
Citation 31 Connecticut Journal of International Law 27 (Fall, 2015)
Summary Introduction. 29 I. Application of Hague, Geneva, and Customary Law to Territories Occupied by Israel. 30 II. Four Specific Types of Israeli Conduct. 36 A. Collective Penalties. 36 B. Deportation of Civilians. 39 C. Infusion of One's Own Nationals into Occupied Territory. 41 D. Annexation of Occupied Territory. 43 III. Six Specific Types of...
Year 2015
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Dr. Yousef T. Jabareen THE ARAB-PALESTINIAN COMMUNITY IN ISRAEL: A TEST CASE FOR COLLECTIVE RIGHTS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW 47 George Washington International Law Review 449 (2015) The granting of collective rights to various minority groups, such as national or indigenous minorities, is one of the central tenants of international minority rights law. Whereas individual rights are guaranteed to each member of a group as an individual, collective rights apply to minority groups that are set apart from the majority and... 2015 Palestinian
Author Dr. Yousef T. Jabareen
Title THE ARAB-PALESTINIAN COMMUNITY IN ISRAEL: A TEST CASE FOR COLLECTIVE RIGHTS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW
Citation 47 George Washington International Law Review 449 (2015)
Summary The granting of collective rights to various minority groups, such as national or indigenous minorities, is one of the central tenants of international minority rights law. Whereas individual rights are guaranteed to each member of a group as an individual, collective rights apply to minority groups that are set apart from the majority and...
Year 2015
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Aeyal Gross THE POLITICS OF LGBT RIGHTS IN ISRAEL AND BEYOND: NATIONALITY, NORMATIVITY, AND QUEER POLITICS 46 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 81 (Winter, 2015) The 2010 Israeli Supreme Court judgment in the matter of the Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance, Jerusalem's LGBT community center, was a turning point in both its recognition of equality for the gay community and its adoption of the discourse that sets LGBT rights as signifying Israel as a liberal democracy and as distinguishing it from... 2015
Author Aeyal Gross
Title THE POLITICS OF LGBT RIGHTS IN ISRAEL AND BEYOND: NATIONALITY, NORMATIVITY, AND QUEER POLITICS
Citation 46 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 81 (Winter, 2015)
Summary The 2010 Israeli Supreme Court judgment in the matter of the Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance, Jerusalem's LGBT community center, was a turning point in both its recognition of equality for the gay community and its adoption of the discourse that sets LGBT rights as signifying Israel as a liberal democracy and as distinguishing it from...
Year 2015
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Noura Erakat WHITENESS AS PROPERTY IN ISRAEL: REVIVAL, REHABILITATION, AND REMOVAL 31 Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice 69 (Spring 2015) This essay seeks to read Whiteness as Property onto contemporary Israel by demonstrating that the value ascribed to Jewish nationality is not simply a matter of Jew versus non-Jew. Instead, Whiteness reflects a European order that reproduces and embodies the exclusionary and orientalist tropes that produced anti-Semitism in Europe. The State... 2015
Author Noura Erakat
Title WHITENESS AS PROPERTY IN ISRAEL: REVIVAL, REHABILITATION, AND REMOVAL
Citation 31 Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice 69 (Spring 2015)
Summary This essay seeks to read Whiteness as Property onto contemporary Israel by demonstrating that the value ascribed to Jewish nationality is not simply a matter of Jew versus non-Jew. Instead, Whiteness reflects a European order that reproduces and embodies the exclusionary and orientalist tropes that produced anti-Semitism in Europe. The State...
Year 2015
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John Dugard , John Reynolds APARTHEID, INTERNATIONAL LAW, AND THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY 24 European Journal of International Law 867 (August, 2013) Apartheid is a loaded term; saturated with history and emotion. It conjures up images and memories of discrimination, oppression, and brutality; indulgence, privilege, and pretension; racism, resistance, and, ultimately, emancipation. All of which come to us through the history of apartheid in South Africa. Although prohibited and criminalized by... 2013 Palestinian
Author John Dugard , John Reynolds
Title APARTHEID, INTERNATIONAL LAW, AND THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
Citation 24 European Journal of International Law 867 (August, 2013)
Summary Apartheid is a loaded term; saturated with history and emotion. It conjures up images and memories of discrimination, oppression, and brutality; indulgence, privilege, and pretension; racism, resistance, and, ultimately, emancipation. All of which come to us through the history of apartheid in South Africa. Although prohibited and criminalized by...
Year 2013
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Yaffa Zilbershats APARTHEID, INTERNATIONAL LAW, AND THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY: A REPLY TO JOHN DUGARD AND JOHN REYNOLDS 24 European Journal of International Law 915 (August, 2013) I accept the authors' premise in their article entitled Apartheid, International Law, and the Occupied Palestinian Territory that apartheid, as practised in the former South African regime, remains today a crime against the law of nations applicable to states practising a similar regime. The obligation of a state and its officials to refrain from... 2013 Palestinian
Author Yaffa Zilbershats
Title APARTHEID, INTERNATIONAL LAW, AND THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY: A REPLY TO JOHN DUGARD AND JOHN REYNOLDS
Citation 24 European Journal of International Law 915 (August, 2013)
Summary I accept the authors' premise in their article entitled Apartheid, International Law, and the Occupied Palestinian Territory that apartheid, as practised in the former South African regime, remains today a crime against the law of nations applicable to states practising a similar regime. The obligation of a state and its officials to refrain from...
Year 2013
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Cyra Akila Choudhury SHARI'AH LAW AS NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT? 46 Akron Law Review 49 (2013) I. Introduction. 49 II. Much Ado About Nothing?: State Anti-Shari'ah Laws. 52 A. State Anti-Shari'ah Bills. 54 B. The Architects of the New Threat. 61 III. Family Law as Fifth Column: Shari'ah Creep in U.S. Courts?. 65 A. Marriage. 66 B. Divorce. 69 C. Child Custody. 72 D. Private Marital Agreements. 77 IV. Threats to National Identity or National... 2013
Author Cyra Akila Choudhury
Title SHARI'AH LAW AS NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT?
Citation 46 Akron Law Review 49 (2013)
Summary I. Introduction. 49 II. Much Ado About Nothing?: State Anti-Shari'ah Laws. 52 A. State Anti-Shari'ah Bills. 54 B. The Architects of the New Threat. 61 III. Family Law as Fifth Column: Shari'ah Creep in U.S. Courts?. 65 A. Marriage. 66 B. Divorce. 69 C. Child Custody. 72 D. Private Marital Agreements. 77 IV. Threats to National Identity or National...
Year 2013
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Dr. Yousef T. Jabareen THE POLITICS OF EQUALITY: THE LIMITS OF COLLECTIVE RIGHTS LITIGATION AND THE CASE OF THE PALESTINIAN-ARAB MINORITY IN ISRAEL 4 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 23 (2013) Human and civil rights organizations have long used litigation in an attempt to advance a particular cause, to bolster a certain right, or to bring about social change. A prominent example is strategic litigation filed on behalf of minority groups-including national and indigenous minorities. Such cases typically seek remedies from the government... 2013 Palestinian
Author Dr. Yousef T. Jabareen
Title THE POLITICS OF EQUALITY: THE LIMITS OF COLLECTIVE RIGHTS LITIGATION AND THE CASE OF THE PALESTINIAN-ARAB MINORITY IN ISRAEL
Citation 4 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 23 (2013)
Summary Human and civil rights organizations have long used litigation in an attempt to advance a particular cause, to bolster a certain right, or to bring about social change. A prominent example is strategic litigation filed on behalf of minority groups-including national and indigenous minorities. Such cases typically seek remedies from the government...
Year 2013
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Robert Nicholson LEGAL INTIFADA: PALESTINIAN NGOS AND RESISTANCE LITIGATION IN ISRAELI COURTS 39 Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce 381 (Spring 2012) Introduction. 381 Social and Political Context. 382 The Palestinian Minority in Israel. 382 Institutional Landscape. 387 Palestinian Advocacy NGOs. 387 The Israeli Judiciary. 390 Resistance Litigation. 393 Overview. 393 Case Study: Adalah. 395 Procedures and Strategies. 396 Legal Issues. 399 Preempting Politics in National Courts. 405 Conclusion.... 2012 Palestinian
Author Robert Nicholson
Title LEGAL INTIFADA: PALESTINIAN NGOS AND RESISTANCE LITIGATION IN ISRAELI COURTS
Citation 39 Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce 381 (Spring 2012)
Summary Introduction. 381 Social and Political Context. 382 The Palestinian Minority in Israel. 382 Institutional Landscape. 387 Palestinian Advocacy NGOs. 387 The Israeli Judiciary. 390 Resistance Litigation. 393 Overview. 393 Case Study: Adalah. 395 Procedures and Strategies. 396 Legal Issues. 399 Preempting Politics in National Courts. 405 Conclusion....
Year 2012
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Winston P. Nagan , Aitza M. Haddad RECOGNITION OF PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD: A CLARIFICATION OF THE INTERESTS OF THE CONCERNED PARTIES 40 Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 341 (Winter 2012) I. Introduction. 343 II. Background Facts Relevant to the Claims for Palestinian Statehood. 346 A. The Land and People of Palestine and Eretz Israel. 346 B. The Recognition of the State of Israel. 349 C. Palestine Mandate and United Nations System. 352 D. Conflict Following the Partition Resolution. 354 III. The International Law Criteria of... 2012 Palestinian
Author Winston P. Nagan , Aitza M. Haddad
Title RECOGNITION OF PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD: A CLARIFICATION OF THE INTERESTS OF THE CONCERNED PARTIES
Citation 40 Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 341 (Winter 2012)
Summary I. Introduction. 343 II. Background Facts Relevant to the Claims for Palestinian Statehood. 346 A. The Land and People of Palestine and Eretz Israel. 346 B. The Recognition of the State of Israel. 349 C. Palestine Mandate and United Nations System. 352 D. Conflict Following the Partition Resolution. 354 III. The International Law Criteria of...
Year 2012
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Winston P. Nagan , Aitza M. Haddad THE LEGAL AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF THE POSSIBILITY OF PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD 18 U.C. Davis Journal of International Law and Policy 343 (Spring 2012) Introduction. 344 I. The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Relevant Background. 352 A. Conflicts Relating to Territory, Population and the Claims of Eretz Israel. 352 B. Israel: A Successful Unilateral Declaration of Independence. 356 C. The Partition Resolution, the Emergence of the Conflict, and the International Response. 359 D. U.S. Influence and Role... 2012 Palestinian
Author Winston P. Nagan , Aitza M. Haddad
Title THE LEGAL AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF THE POSSIBILITY OF PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD
Citation 18 U.C. Davis Journal of International Law and Policy 343 (Spring 2012)
Summary Introduction. 344 I. The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Relevant Background. 352 A. Conflicts Relating to Territory, Population and the Claims of Eretz Israel. 352 B. Israel: A Successful Unilateral Declaration of Independence. 356 C. The Partition Resolution, the Emergence of the Conflict, and the International Response. 359 D. U.S. Influence and Role...
Year 2012
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Bianca Watts BETTER THAN A THOUSAND HOLLOW WORDS IS ONE WORD THAT BRINGS PEACE: ENFORCING ARTICLE 49(6) OF THE FOURTH GENEVA CONVENTION AGAINST ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY 24 Pacific McGeorge Global Business & Development Law Journal 443 (2011) I. Introduction. 444 II. A Brief History of the Geneva IV and the Beginnings of the Settlement Enterprise. 445 A. Circumstances Surrounding the Creation of the Geneva IV. 445 B. Israel's Acquisition of the OPT. 446 III. Treatment of Settlements. 447 A. By Israel. 447 B. By the International Community. 448 1. U.N. General Assembly. 448 2. U.N.... 2011 Palestinian
Author Bianca Watts
Title BETTER THAN A THOUSAND HOLLOW WORDS IS ONE WORD THAT BRINGS PEACE: ENFORCING ARTICLE 49(6) OF THE FOURTH GENEVA CONVENTION AGAINST ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
Citation 24 Pacific McGeorge Global Business & Development Law Journal 443 (2011)
Summary I. Introduction. 444 II. A Brief History of the Geneva IV and the Beginnings of the Settlement Enterprise. 445 A. Circumstances Surrounding the Creation of the Geneva IV. 445 B. Israel's Acquisition of the OPT. 446 III. Treatment of Settlements. 447 A. By Israel. 447 B. By the International Community. 448 1. U.N. General Assembly. 448 2. U.N....
Year 2011
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