International Law and the Question of Palestine
This reading group examined the different histories and configurations of the
emergence of, (attempted) erasures of, and persistence of, the question of Palestine in,
and for, international law. Inter alia it explored – the politics, histories and constitutive
effects of different international legal concepts; the tactical and/or strategic
possibilities and limits of mobilising different laws and institutions in liberatory
struggles; the complicities of, and potentiality to exercise global solidarities in and
through, different institutions (including Universities); and the obligations and ethos
of international legal scholarship, and legal scholars, in the face of genocide. The
readings included international institutional reports, legal scholarship, international
adjudicatory jurisprudence, historical scholarship, and postcolonial literature – with a
specific focus on the work of Palestinian jurists, scholars and activists.
This reading group was convened by Haris Jamil, Michael Bader and Adil Hasan Khan.
(Please email twailr.discussion@gmail.com for materials).
Poster Commemorating the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Source: The Palestinian Museum Digital Library