A virtual discussion panel with international legal scholars on how race and its relationship with international law has come up in three ongoing proceedings before the International Court of Justice (Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem; Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel); and Alleged Breaches of Certain International Obligations in respect of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Nicaragua v. Germany)). Inter alia the discussion addresses what we have learned from these proceedings to date about the limits and possibilities of international law (and the ICJ) in pursuing a global anti-racist politics, and how the question of Palestine continues to operate as a ‘limit experience’ for much critical jurisprudence on race and international law today.

Speakers

Dr. Shahd Hammouri, Lecturer in Law, University of Kent
Professor Vasuki Nesiah, Professor of Human Rights and International Law, New York University
Dr. Christopher Gevers, Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Dr. Nahed Samour, Associate Researcher, Radboud University, Nijmegen

Chair: Dr. Adil Hasan Khan, Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School

Date: 15 April 2024
Venue: Online (Zoom) – recorded (75 minutes duration)
Time: 11 pm CEST(Berlin); 10 pm GMT (London); 5 pm EDT (NYC); 7 am, 16 April AEST (Melbourne)

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