ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ardi Imseis

Dr. Ardi Imseis is Associate Professor of International Law, Queen’s University. He is Author of The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity (Cambridge 2023). He served as legal counsel to the State of Palestine in the proceedings. He writes in his personal capacity.

POSTS BY Ardi Imseis

10 October 2024

Ardi Imseis

A Seismic Change

It is no understatement to say that the 19 July 2024 ICJ Advisory Opinion constitutes a seismic change in the international law and practice on the question of Palestine. In one fell swoop, the ICJ has shifted what was hitherto an almost exclusive focus of the international community on how Israel has administered its 57-year occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory under International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law, to the requirement that Israel end its occupation of that territory as “rapidly as possible”. Continue reading >>