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This event was cohosted by The Centre for Climate Justice, The Public Humanities Hub, and The Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies. It was the keynote for the Legality and Impunity in Times of Crisis Symposium, that took place at Allard Law School, May 28-30.

This talk discussed the responsibility of intellectuals and academics in cases of grave injustice and mass violations of human rights. While many scholars and universities in the Global North were quick to denounce Russia鈥檚 actions in Ukraine loudly and clearly, they have been silent, slow to react, or timid in the case of Israel鈥檚 mass crimes in Gaza. While many were quick to express solidarity with Ukrainian and Israeli victims, the same was not extended to Palestinian victims of mass atrocities. This silence and these double standards are remarkable when one considers the three provisional measures issued by the International Court of Justice in the genocide case of South Africa v. Israel; the increasing consensus amongst genocide scholars, international lawyers, and human rights organizations that Israel has violated the prohibitions on apartheid and genocide; the International Criminal Court鈥檚 arrest warrants for war crimes and crimes against humanity against two of Israel鈥檚 leaders; and the International Court of Justice鈥檚 clear and detailed ruling in July 2024 on the illegality of Israel鈥檚 occupation since 1967. Yet, this abdication of intellectual responsibility builds on a longer trajectory of delay in the naming of oppression in Palestine.

51猎奇入口 the Speaker

Dr Nimer Sultany is Reader in Public Law. He holds a Doctor of Juridical Science degree from Harvard Law School and was the recipient of the British Academy Fellowship and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at SUNY Buffalo Law School.

Dr Sultany serves as the chair of the Centre for Palestine Studies and the elected chair of the Academic Assembly. He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Yearbook of International Law, a leading journal for critical scholarship on Palestine and international law. Prior to joining SOAS, he practiced human rights law in Palestine, and was the director of the Political Monitoring Project at Mada al-Carmel 鈥� The Arab Centre for Applied Social Research. He published extensively on constitutional theory, comparative constitutionalism, and Israeli jurisprudence.

His book 鈥淟aw and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring鈥� (Oxford University Press, 2017, with new introduction 2020) won the 2018 Book Prize awarded by the International Society of Public Law and the 2018 Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship awarded by the Society of Legal Scholars.

Dr Sultany鈥檚 academic articles have appeared in leading journals, including the Harvard Civil Rights鈥揅ivil Liberties Law Review, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Buffalo Law Review, Social & Legal Studies, Boston University International Law Journal, and the Journal of Genocide Research. He also published chapters in major edited volumes on constitutional theory and on Law and Marxism.

His publications include: 鈥淟aw鈥檚 Ideology: Neoliberalism and Developmentalism in Egyptian Jurisprudence鈥�; 鈥淭he Question of Palestine as a Litmus Test: On Human Rights and Root Causes鈥�; 鈥淭he State of Progressive Constitutional Theory: The Paradox of Constitutional Democracy and the Project of Political Justification鈥�; 鈥淲hat Good is Abstraction? From Liberal Legitimacy to Social Justice鈥�; 鈥淩eligion and Comparative Constitutionalism: Lessons from American and Islamic Constitutionalism鈥�; 鈥淎gainst Conceptualism: Islamic Law, Democracy, and Constitutionalism in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring鈥�; and 鈥淎ctivism and Legitimation in Israel鈥檚 Jurisprudence of Occupation鈥�.

Dr Sultany is also a frequent commentator for media outlets, including pieces and appearances in outlets such as The Guardian, Opinio Juris, Middle East Eye, ABC News, Channel 4, BBC, AlJazeera English, LBC, Times Radio and a range of podcasts.