_{TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 6:30 PM  |  RESEARCH 163}

 

G E O R G E   M A S O N   U N I V E R S I T Y 

 

SPEAKERS

RICHARD FALK  PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

SHERENE SEIKALY  UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA

SHIRA ROBINSON  GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY 

NOURA ERAKAT  GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY

 

 

 

2017 marked 100 years since the British Empire designated Palestine as a site of Jewish settlement thus setting in motion a settler-colonial project featuring native elimination. Palestinians have fervently resisted their erasure and have successfully inscribed their juridical status as a people in international law and legal instruments and established their associated right to self-determination. Despite their valiant efforts, the possibility of a Palestinian state today is obsolete. Meanwhile, the question of Palestine has steadily entered the progressive agenda in the United States and is emerging as a partisan issue in Congress for the first time since 1967. Using Noura Erakat’s new book, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019) as a prompt and point of departure, this event will explore this strange juxtaposition between dismal conditions on the ground in Palestine alongside hopeful signs for change in the United States and what this may bode for the future.

 

 

 

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC    |    Pizza and drinks will be provided

Cosponsored by Middle East and Islamic Studies, Global Affairs, Center for Global Islamic Studies, Department of History

[PDF and JPEG Versions Attached]

 

 

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REVIEWS

 

Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019)

Link: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=26507

 

 

"Noura Erakat's incisive exploration of the role of law in shaping the development of Israel/Palestine reveals the consistent genuflection of international legal institutions to Israel's reliance on well-established colonial practices. She also forcefully argues that the skillful use of international law as a tool of struggle can be generative of hope and possibility—for Palestine and the world. Justice for Some is precisely the book we need at this time."

— Angela Y. Davis, author of Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

"A radical rethinking of the role of law and legal advocacy in the struggle for Palestinian rights. Noura Erakat tells how a refugee problem became a national liberation movement, and the tragic story of how initiative and momentum were squandered after Oslo. Brilliant, inspiring, coldly realistic—and hopeful."

— Duncan Kennedy, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence Emeritus, Harvard Law School

"Without any doubt, Justice for Some is the best book on the law and politics of the Palestine/Israel struggle—sophisticated, learned, humane, and creative. Noura Erakat makes a profound contribution to our general understanding of the paradoxical role of law in the contemporary world."

— Richard Falk, Princeton University, Former UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine, author of Palestine's Horizon: Toward a Just Peace,