International Law and Israel-Palestine

(4 Credits)

The course offers critical consideration of the role and relevance of international law in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and offers a nuanced exploration of questions of law, human rights, and social justice. The course will cover issues such as the international legal history of the conflict from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the 1947 UN Partition Plan to the 1967 Occupation and the Oslo Process of the 1990s. The course also examines the law of occupation, including the application of human rights to occupied territory, the status of the Wall, and Apartheid. Finally, the course will offer a critical assessment of mainstream and alternative solutions, and will end with an assessed class research conference.