Ardi Imseis, On the ICJ Israeli Policies Advisory Opinion and the Potential of International Law

Moderated by Professor Samuel Moyn.

Dr. Ardi Imseis is an Associate Professor of Law at Queen’s University. He is the author of “The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity” (Cambridge University Press 2023). In 2019 he was named by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to serve as a Member of the UN commission of inquiry into the civil war in Yemen. Between 2002 and 2014, he served in senior legal and policy capacities in the Middle East with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).  Most recently he served as Legal Counsel to the State of Palestine before the International Court of Justice in the case concerning the Legal Consequences arising from the policies and practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.

Lunch is provided and RSVP¹ is required.