In 2024, the International Court of Justice found Israel’s presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory unlawful but said nothing about the sea. What are Palestine’s maritime entitlements, and does the ruling reach its waters too?
The UN reported Thursday that the World Food Program (WFP) and its humanitarian partners had delivered food and essential supplies to more than 600,000 people in Gaza this month. However, agencies such as the WFP warn that severe hunger continues
Jessica WhyteAdania Shibli, Minor Detail. Trans. Elisabeth Jaquette. (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020)Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a novel made of two stories of violence and domination, separated by more than six decades. In the first, set during the Palestinian Nakba, a terrible crime is committed
Human Rights Watch on Wednesday condemned Israeli forces in the West Bank for blocking and delaying ambulances carrying Palestinians to hospitals with “appalling regularity”, including forcing a pregnant woman in active labor to deliver on the road in an incident
The last two weeks have primarily grappled with the implications of the Chişinău Declaration, along with Israel’s continued policies concerning occupied Palestine: the establishment of ad hod military courts and its blockade of the Sumud Flotilla. Criminal proceedings in Iranian
David Schorr has published “Against ‘Anglicization’: Class, Codification, and the Common Law in Palestine’s Civil Wrongs Ordinance” in Law & History Review. The abstract provides:
This article explores the enactment of the Civil Wrongs Ordinance in Mandate Palestine in order
The United Nations warned Thursday that children in Palestine are facing a mounting mental health emergency amid escalating violence, displacement, and personal loss, with over one million children in Gaza now in urgent need of mental and psychological or social
Max M. Schanzenbach (Northwestern University – Pritzker School of Law) and Robert H. Sitkoff (Harvard Law School; European Corporate Governance Institute) recently published, Divesting University Endowments, 2026. Provided below is an Abstract:
The brutal conflict between Hamas and Israel
The updated ICRC Commentary of the Fourth Geneva Convention (GCIV) is a monumental, if not timely, achievement. At its core, it provides a set of very useful legal interpretations on an enormous body of rules and provisions, reflecting a gigantic
Following five years of research and consultations, the ICRC published a new, updated Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention (GC IV) of 1949 in October 2025. GC IV is the cornerstone of protection for civilians in international armed conflict and
