Lecture
Still Seeking Permission To Narrate: On International Law And The Question Of Palestine
- Date
- Thursday 27 November 2025
- Time
- Address
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Wijnhaven
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP The Hague - Room
- 2.02
For what and for whom does international law and organization operate? From knowledge production to practice, is the discipline truly universal? In this lecture, Professor Ardi Imseis explores these themes to examine why the Question of Palestine now presents the international legal order with its most serious existential crisis since the Second World War.
Speaker: Professor Ardi Imseis
Associate Professor, Queen’s University, Canada
Barrister and advocate before the International Court of Justice
Author of The United Nations and the Question of Palestine
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About the Speaker
Dr. Ardi Imseis is Associate Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, where he Co-Directs the International Law Program. 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 as a Member of the UN commission of inquiry into the civil war in Yemen. He has advised and served as Legal Counsel and advocate before the International Court of Justice, most recently in the case concerning Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organizations, and Third States in and in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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). He has provided expert testimony in his personal capacity before various high-level bodies, including the UN Security Council, the UN Human Rights Council, and the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Professor Imseis’s scholarship has appeared in a wide array of international journals, and he is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Yearbook of International Law (Brill; 2008-2019) and Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Human Rights Fellow, Columbia Law School (2001-2002). Professor Imseis is a Barrister at Law, Law Society of Ontario, Canada. He holds a Ph.D. (Cambridge), an LL.M. (Columbia), LL.B. (Dalhousie), and B.A. (Hons.) (Toronto).