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18 April 2024 | Noon | Higgins Lounge
Dana Commons
Especially for Students Lecture
The International Court of Justice and the Palestine-Israel Crisis: Past, Present, and Future
Speakers:
Omar Yousef Shehabi (Acting Assistant Professor at NYU School of Law and a Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD) candidate at Yale Law School)
Karin Loevy (JSD Program Manager & Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ) researcher, NYU School of Law)
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the U.N.’s highest court, took up two cases regarding the Palestine-Israel crisis at the start of the year. The first, brought by South Africa, is a contentious case regarding the jurisdiction of the Genocide Convention. The Court’s decision has binding force, and its judgments in such contentious cases may be enforced by the UN Security Council. The second concerns the policies and practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Join us as two legal experts explain the genesis of the ICJ cases, the strengths and weaknesses of both, as well as their broader local, regional, and global implications.
Co-sponsored by the Genocide and Human Rights Undergraduate Concentration (Ina and Haskell Gordon Endowed Fund); the Political Science Department through the Francis A. Harrington Public Affairs Fund and the Center for Gender, Race and Area Studies.