The Center for Palestine Studies (CPS) at Columbia University has developed a new project on Palestine and law, which consists of a series of panels with some of the world`s leading legal scholars on Palestine. The aim of the series is to promote innovative academic thought on legal questions related to Palestine. The issues covered will include the state question, property issues, from possession to dispossession; the sphere of litigation; the legal status of the refugee; and regimes of imprisonment.
On 3 December 2012, CPS hosted a panel entitled, “Military Justice? Palestinians in Israeli Courts,” with the scholars below. Panelists examined litigation before both military jurisdictions in the West Bank and before the Israeli civil courts, including the High Court of Justice and discussed how courts render justice for Palestinians as residents of the Occupied Territories and as citizens of the State of Israel.
Panelists
- Lisa Hajjar, Associate Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara, and author of Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza (2005).
- Yael Berda, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, and author of The Bureaucracy of the Occupation: The Permit Regime in the West Bank (2012).
- Hedi Viterbo, Visiting Scholar, Harvard Law School, (PhD, London School of Economics), dissertation title: “The Legal Construction of Childhood in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”
Discussant
- Darryl Li, Postdoctoral Fellow, Committee on Global Thought (JD, Yale University; PhD, Anthropology, Harvard University).
The event was moderated by Katherine Franke, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School.