Writing on the Wall - Rethinking the International Law of Occupation

Informationen zum Autor Professor Aeyal Gross teaches at the Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University. He also teaches regularly as a guest at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research and writing focuses on international human rights law and international humanitarian law. He has previously published a comparative study, co-edited with Colleen Flood, entitled The Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide (Cambridge, 2014). Klappentext A critical analysis of Israel's control of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, advocating a normative and functional approach. Zusammenfassung As the Israeli occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory nears its fiftieth anniversary! Gross offers a critical perspective on the international law of occupation! advocating a normative and functional approach to occupation and the question of when it exists! and critically considers the application of humanitarian and human rights law. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The ends and fictions of occupation: between fact and norm; 2. The indeterminacy of occupation: from conceptualism to the functional approach; 3. Indeterminacy and control in the Occupied Palestinian Territory; 4. The construction of a wall between The Hague and Jerusalem: humanitarian law or a Fata Morgana of humanitarian law; 5. The securitization of human rights: are human rights the emperor's new clothes of the international law of occupation?

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Aeyal Gross, Aeyal (Tel-Aviv University) Gross, Aeyal M. Gross, Gross Aeyal
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 06.04.2017
• EAN: 9781107145962
• ISBN: 978-1-107-14596-2
• Pagine: 458
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Politica e sua amministrazione; Israel, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / International, LAW / Public, Palestine, International humanitarian law, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Public international law: humanitarian law, Public international law: territory and statehood, International law of territory & statehood