Beyond the political clash: Using land law and housing law to understand the evictions in Sheikh Jarrah
The EVICT Project is organizing a special session of our Monthly talk series on the evictions in Sheikh Jarrah with Dr. Hadeel Abu Hussein (University of Oxford) and Dr. Manal Totry- Jubran (Bar-Ilan University). This talk will be dedicated to examining the domestic and international legal context of the recent forced evictions in East Jerusalem (Sheikh Jarrah), as well as highlighting the difficulties associated with protecting the right to housing in Palestine.
About the speakers
Dr. Hadeel Abu Hussein holds a PhD in Law from the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her research is exploring the evolution of land law within ethnic states and international law how states are constructing land regime to exercise the exclusion of the minority groups, engaging with the insights of legal geography theory. Currently, her research is dealing with public international law, human rights law and comparative constitutionalism. Hadeel’s research focuses on international legal discourse in the Middle East, Israel/Palestine conflict, human rights, social justice and decoloniality. Her work is enlightened by and engages with Third World Approaches to International Law.
Dr. Manal Totry-Jubran is an associate professor at the Law faculty – Bar Ilan University and a visiting professor in Bicocca University, Milano. She was a Post Doctorial Fellow at the Faculty of Law, the Hebrew University. She received her Ph.d. from the Faculty of Law, University of Tel- Aviv. Her main fields of interests are: Law and Society, Legal Geography, Multiculturalism, Minority Rights, Constitutional and administrative Law, Environmental and Climate Justice, Transitional Justice.
About the monthly EVICT talks
On the third Thursday of every month, we will have a speaker on a topic related to evictions, the right to housing, housing law, the (complex) relation between international law and national law, and/or data science. Each month, we will have a different international speaker (ranging from scholars to practitioners) who will offer fascinating insights into their area of expertise.
The talk starts at 04:00 pm and ends at 05:30 pm (Central European Time, UTC+01:00)
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The talk will take place online. Join us on Bluejeans. Signing up is not necessary. A recording of this talk is available here.
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November 26th, 2024
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