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Omar Yousef Shehabi

Omar Yousef Shehabi is a visiting professor of law at McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific and a JSD candidate at Yale Law School. He served as a legal officer with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), a legal officer with the United Nations Secretariat, Office of Administration of Justice, and a legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team in permanent-status negotiations with Israel.
POSTS BY Omar Yousef Shehabi
09 October 2024

The Advisory Opinion and a Negotiated Settlement?

The accepted framework for settling the Palestine question through bilateral negotiations, in legal terms, does not survive the Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024. The degree to which the Advisory Opinion catalyses a new political framework remains to be seen. But the Advisory Opinion gives the Palestinians newfound agency in shaping one. Continue reading >>
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02 August 2024

On Recognition

The decades-long campaign for recognition of a Palestinian state on the 1967-occupied territory meets the international system, however flawed, where it is. Its selling point is simple: an independent Palestinian state is the most attainable way, if not the only way, to restore integrity and dignity to the Palestinian people while maintaining a minimum standard of order. Continue reading >>
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23 March 2024

Ãœberleben. Ganz oder teilweise.

Grausame Wegmarken und die Zukunft von UNRWA. Continue reading >>
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23 March 2024

Surviving, in Whole or in Part

On the Past, Present and Future of UNRWA. Continue reading >>
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09 February 2024

UNRWA as Sui Generis

Since UNRWA preemptively disclosed Israel’s claim to have evidence that 12 UNRWA employees participated in the 7 October 2023 attacks, at least 16 donor states and the European Union, which collectively supply the vast majority of the Agency’s budget, have suspended their contributions. This poses an existential threat to UNRWA, the largest provider of humanitarian assistance in Gaza. This post explains how the current episode displays the unsatisfactory sui generis status of UNRWA’s Palestinian staff, and forms part of an ongoing and largely successful attempt to position UNRWA as a compromised, sui generis UN organisation which constitutes an outlier in the law and practice of the United Nations. Continue reading >>
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22 October 2017

The Kurdistan Independence Referendum and Constitutional Self-Determination

Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) held a non-binding independence referendum on 25 September 2017. Voters were asked: ‘Do you want the Kurdistan Region and the Kurdistani areas outside the region’s administration to become an independent state?’ Voting occurred in Kirkuk and the Kurdish-controlled parts of other territories in northern Iraq whose disputed status is recognized in the Iraqi constitution. In retrospect, Kurdish leaders seem to have overreached politically, as the Iraqi armed forces and allied militias have in recent days seized Kirkuk Governorate from Kurdish control. But was it legal overreach? Continue reading >>
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