In conversation with Ardi Imseis - On Palestine and International Law: Statehood Recognition and Beyond

You are invited to join a conversation with Professor Ardi Imseis on the question of Palestine and international law, organized in collaboration by the Contesting Governance Plaform’s priority area The Palestine Lab and the Public International Law LLM program at Utrecht University.

Ardi Imseis

Ardi Imseis is an international law academic and practitioner. He currently works as Associate Professor at Queen’s Faculty of Law in Canada. He was previously employed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He has also served as legal advisor and advocate in cases before the International Court of Justice. Ardi Imseis is the author of The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and the former Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Yearbook of International Law.

Question of Palestine from an international law perspective

Ardi Imseis will engage in a conversation with interested members of the UU academic community, which will be led by Alessandra Spadaro, Assistant Professor in Public International Law. The conversation will have as a starting point, but not be limited to, the recent wave of recognition of the State of Palestine by some Western States. This is the topic of the address Ardi Imseis recently delivered at the Sorbonne: Too Little, Too Late? On the Meaning and Consequences of the Recognition of the State of Palestine, which attendees are invited to read in advance. The conversation will also provide the opportunity to touch upon other aspects of the question of Palestine from an international law perspective, including some of the most recent developments.