International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Susan M. Akram is Clinical Professor at Boston University School of Law, teaching immigration law, comparative refugee law, and international human rights law, and supervising students handling refugee and asylum cases in BU’s asylum and human rights program. She has spoken and published widely in the fields of immigration law, refugee law and human rights, and has taught at the American University in Cairo and the Al-Quds/Palestine School of Law in East Jerusalem. Michael Dumper is Professor of Politics at Exeter University. His main area of research has been on Final Status Issues in the Middle East peace process and he is author of The Future of the Palestinian Refugees: Towards Equity and Peace (2007) and The Politics of Sacred Space: The Old City of Jerusalem and the Middle East Conflict (2001), as well as editor of the Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict series. Michael Lynk is Associate Dean, Academic and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. He has taught labour, human rights, constitutional and administrative law, and is an editor of the Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal as well as the author of numerous books. He has also worked with the United Nations in the Middle East, where he has published academic legal articles on the area and he is a regular commentator in the print and broadcast media. Iain Scobbie is Sir Joseph Hotung Professor in Law, Human Rights and Peace Building in the Middle East in the School of Law at SOAS. Specialising in Public international law, especially its relation to the Israel/Palestine situation; theory of international law; international humanitarian law; the law and practice of the International Court of Justice, he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Journal of International Law, and of the Commissioning Panel of the AHRB/ESRC Religion and Society programme.

Introduction Part 1: Core Issues: Refugees and Jerusalem 1. The Palestinian Refugees: Protection and Assistance 2. The Palestinian Refugees: Durable Solutions 3. The Palestinian Refugees: Restitution and Compensation 4. Jerusalem Part 2: Security 5. The ICJ Advisory Opinion: Decolonization and the Law 6. Security and International Law in the Israel-Palestine Conflict Part 3: Legal and Political Frameworks for a Durable Peace 7. Principles of Self-Determination in International Law, Applied to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 8. The Right to Natural Resources 9. Building the Rule of Law in Palestine Part 4: Debating the Future 10. The Two State Solution 11. The One State Solution