United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule By Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity

Dr. Ardi Imseis will speak on his forthcoming book 'United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of international Legal Subalternity'. Dr Imseis is Assistant Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University. Member of the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts, the UN Human Rights Council commission of inquiry into the civil war in Yemen (2019-2021). Between 2002 and 2014, he served with the UN in the Middle East (UNRWA & UNHCR), and has provided expert testimony in his personal capacity before the UN Security Council on multiple occasions. Imseis is author of the United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of international Legal Subalternity (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), and his scholarship has appeared in a wide array of international journals, including the American Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law, the Harvard International Law Journal, and the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. Imseis is former Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Yearbook of International Law (Brill; 2008-2019), Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Human Rights Fellow, Columbia Law School, and Senior Legal Counsel to the Chief Justice of Alberta. He holds a Ph.D. (Cambridge), LL.M. (Columbia), LL.B. (Dalhousie), and B.A. (Hons.) (Toronto).