In July\, the International Court of Justi ce issued a historic advisory opinion concluding that Israel’s decades long occupation and annexation of Palestinian territory is illegal under intern ational law and that all nations had the duty to recognize it as such and n ot assist its perpetuation. Professor Ardi Imseis served as Legal Counsel t o the State of Palestine before the ICJ and will discuss the recent Israeli Policies Advisory Opinion and the counter-hegemonic potential of internati onal law.
Prof. Imseis has served in senior legal and policy capaciti es with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees i n the Near East (UNRWA) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refuge es (UNHCR) as well as on the United Nations commission of inquiry into the civil war in Yemen. He has provided expert testimony in his personal capaci ty before various high-level bodies\, including the UN Security Council\, t he UN Human Rights Council\, and the UN Committee on Economic\, Social and Cultural Rights.
CATEGORIES:Speaker/Panel LOCATION:Pound Hall\; 102 Classroom GEO:0;0 ORGANIZER;CN="Irene Ameena":MAILTO:iameena@jd25.law.harvard.edu URL;VALUE=URI:https://hls.harvard.edu/events/illegal-occupation-palestine-t he-icj-and-the-counter-hegemonic-potential-of-international-law/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20241103T060000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR