Event: Palestine, International Law and Israeli Accountability (University of Oxford, 2/25/15)

CIS Sponsored Event

Chair: Professor Antonios Tzanakopoulos

Convenor: Karma Nabulsi

Professor John Dugard will discuss international protections for the Palestinian people  in relation to his responsibility as the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for the Occupied Palestinian territories. The talk will look at the development of the legal terminology around Israeli practices as well as the recent war on Gaza. 

Professor John Dugard has been professor of law at the Universities of Leiden, Cambridge, Pretoria and Witwatersrand. He is a member of the International Law Commission and was Special Rapporteur to the Human Rights Council on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. He is a member of the Institut de Droit International and has served as a judge at the International Court of Justice.

Professor Antonios Tzanakopoulos is Associate Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law and Fellow in Law at St Anne’s College.