International Law and Israel-Palestine

Subject LAWS70344 (2010)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2010.

Credit Points: 12.50
Level: 7 (Graduate/Postgraduate)
Dates & Locations:

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2010:

June, Parkville - Taught on campus.
Pre-teaching Period Start not applicable
Teaching Period not applicable
Assessment Period End not applicable
Last date to Self-Enrol not applicable
Census Date not applicable
Last date to Withdraw without fail not applicable


Timetable can be viewed here. For information about these dates, click here.
Time Commitment: Contact Hours: The total class time is between 24 and 26 hours.
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Contact

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Subject Overview:

History and the international legal framework:

  • The legal history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • Peace plans and processes: A comparative perspective
  • International humanitarian law
  • The international law of occupation
  • The applicability of international human rights law to occupied territory
  • The right of self-determination: From East Timor to the Western Sahara and the West Bank
  • Revisiting the history of the international law of self-determination: The untold story of population transfer.

International law and the two-state solution:

  • Refugees
  • Settlements and settlers
  • Jerusalem
  • Case study: The Wall

Alternative models:

  • Transitional justice: Peace-building, reconciliation and dealing with the past
  • One-state solution: Earned sovereignty and international trusteeship

This subject will finish with an assessed, student-run Israeli-Palestinian peace conference.
Objectives:

A student who has successfully completed this subject should:

  • Understand and be able to use foundational concepts of public international law
  • Understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in historical and comparative perspective
  • Be familiar with the history and legal history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • Understand the principal sources and rules of international law applicable to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • Understand the substance and significance of the debates over the current status of the Gaza Strip
  • Be equipped to engage in legal analysis of the core issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • Be better able to analyse critically and legally the two-state solution and its alternatives.
Assessment:

Peace conference participation (10%)

Take-home examination (90%) (13-16 August)
or
9,000 word research paper (90%) (23 September) on a topic approved by the subject coordinator
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Breadth Options:

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.
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