L E C T U R E S [select list]
University of Adelaide and the Adelaide Festival of Ideas (July 2018)
Edward Said Memorial Lecture: Anti-Blackness, Settler-Colonialism, and the Question of Palestine
Foundation for Middle East Peace, Middle East Institute (May 18 2018)
Resistance at 70: The Future of the Palestinian National Movement
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (May 2018)
How Support for Israel's Violation of International Law Puts the US on the Wrong Side of History
University of Seattle Law School (Apr 19 2018)
Gates Public Interest Lecture Series: The Question of Palestine After Trump
Harvard Law School (Mar 9 2018)
Jerusalem After Trump (with Aaron David Miller)
UC Berkeley, Center for Middle East Studies (27-28 Apr 2017)
6 Days, 50 Years: 1967 and the Politics of Time (Keynote)
East London University, School of Politics and International Relations (26 May 2017)
Palestine Under Occupation: The Legitimation of Violence and the Violence of Legitimation (Keynote)
United Nations Forum to Mark Fifty Years of Occupation (30 June 2017)
Ending the Occupation: Creating the Space for Human Rights, Development and a Just Peace (Panelist)
National University of Singapore, Middle East Institute (May 2016)
The Middle East Peace Process After the Arab Uprisings
Yale University (April 2016)
From Occupation to Warfare: How Israel Expanded its Right to Use Force and Diminished Protections of Civilians
Ohio University, Baker Peace Studies Center and the Contemporary History Institute (March 2016)
History, War, and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East
Jerusalem/Birzeit/Nazareth (December 2015)
Alternative Strategies for Realizing Justice in Palestine
(Presenter & Member of Organizing Committee)
Cornell University School of Law (November 2015)
Beyond Survival: Livelihood Strategies for Refugees in the Middle East
Law for Black Lives (August 2015)
Global Solidarity: Struggles Against Racism & Police/State Violence Around the World
Al Sijal Institute (Amman, July 2015)
BDS at 10: Notes from the United States
American University in Beirut (July 2015)
Refugees and Migrants-Lebanon Workshop
(Organizer & Co-Coordinator of ASI's Refugees and Migrants Project)
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (June 2015)
The Colonial Politics of Civility: Implications of the Steven Salaita Case for Indigenous Studies and Beyond
Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (April 2015)
War on Gaza in the Age of Human Rights
Cal State Fullerton (March 2015)
President’s Day Celebration of International Women’s Day (Keynote): Gender and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Hawai'i Speaking Tour (November 2014)
Spotlight on Gaza: Contexts and Ethical Responses
City Club of Cleveland (November 2014)
Operation Protective Edge: Gaza in Context
University of Chicago (November 2014)
Operation Protective Edge: Gaza in Context
George Mason University (October 2014)
Operation Protective Edge: Legal and Political Implications of ICC Prosecution
UCLA Law School (October 2014)
Whiteness as Property: A Twenty Year Appraisal
Contemporary Civil Rights Debates
Rachel Corrie Foundation PeaceWorks 2014 Keynote With Angela Davis
Yet Again As Captives: Mass Incarceration in the U.S. and Palestine
Vienna + 20 Program, Rutgers University (October 2013)
Development, Democracy, Human Rights & The Arab Uprisings
Junior International Scholars’ Association Conference (February 2013)
New Imminence in the Age of Obama: The Impact of Targeted Killings on the Law of Self-Defense
American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt (November 2012)
The Death of the Two-State Solution
American Society of International Law Mid-Year Research Forum, Athens, GA (October 2012)
US v. ICRC: Customary International Humanitarian Law and Universal Jurisdiction
Palestine Center, Intern Lecture Series, Washington, D.C. (July 2012)
Palestinian Politics: Representation and Accountability
Columbia University, Palestine & Law Series, The State Question, Panel II (April 2012)
Self-determination and statehood in International Law
Briefing for the UN Israel/Palestine Working Group, New York, (February 2012)
Presentation of BADIL’s Submission to the 80th Session of the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
American University Law School, Founders’ Symposium, Washington, D.C. (February 2012)
Immunity, Accountability, and the Arab Uprisings
Middle East Studies Association, Washington, D.C. (December 2011)
The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination: Decentralized Leadership and International Solidarity
Blueprint for Accountability: Gaza, Goldstone, and the Crisis of Impunity (May 2011)
Roundtable discussion about the enduring relevance of Goldstone and the quest for accountability
Stanford University Law School, Stanford, California (March 2011)
Debate on the Goldstone Report featuring discussant Justice Richard Goldstone
UC Hastings Law School, San Francisco, California (March 2011)
Constructing the Prototypical Terrorist in America: Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian
University of Toronto Law School, Toronto, Canada (February 2011)
Is it Wrong or Illegal? Situating the Gaza Blockade Between International Law and the UN Response
MUWATIN: Palestinian Institute for Democracy, Ramallah, Palestine (October 2010)
Palestinians in the US, Politics of Exclusion, and Activism
American University in Beirut, UN in the Middle East Research Initiative (Ocotber 2010)
Is it Wrong or Illegal? Situating the Gaza Blockade Between International Law and the UN Response
Ruwad Stakeholder Meeting on Arbitrary Detention in Lebanon, Beirut, Lebanon (May 2010)
Habeas Corpus: Origins and use on behalf of African slaves, alleged terrorists, and Iraqi refugees
Interfaith Peace Builders Grassroots Advocacy Training-DC keynote speaker (March 2010)
Grassroots Lobbying on the Middle East: Iran, Syria, and Palestine
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee-MA keynote speaker (May 2009)
Grassroots Activism, International Solidarity, and Community Empowerment
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Conference, Georgetown University, Annual Symposium (April 2009)
International Law, Congress, and Palestine
U.S. House of Representatives (April 2009)
Congressional Briefing on Findings and Recommendations from Operation Cast Lead
McGill University, Montreal (November 2008)
International Law and Israeli Apartheid
Left Forum, New York (March 2007)
Hamas’ Electoral Victory: Political Cost-Analysis for Arab World and Palestinian Nation
New York University (November 2006)
Gaza’s humanitarian crisis looming in the shadow of Israel’s war on Lebanon
University of New Mexico Law School (November 2006)
Competing Narratives and the Impact on a Negotiated settlement: Israel’s quest for Peace and Security 1948-Present and Palestinian Human Rights
Johns Hopkins University, SAIS (October 2006)
Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations in Context
United National International Conference of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People, Geneva (September 2006)
US-based efforts to confront Israeli Apartheid
La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley (March 2006)
Israeli war crimes in U.S. courts: ATCA suits against Moshe Ya’alon and Avi Dichter
Middle East Studies Association Conference (November 2005)
Non-State Parties in International Criminal Tribunals: A case-study of Palestinian Refugees from Jenin Refugee Camp
National tour following NLG Gaza fact-finding delegation 2009 (International Law & Gaza)
Washington DC @ George Washington University (February 2009)
Washington, DC @ Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown (March 2009)
Berkeley Law School, UC Berkeley (March 2009)
San Francisco State University (March 2009)
South Bay Mobilization, San Jose (March 2009)
San Diego public library (March 2009)
University of California at Los Angeles (March 2009)
Anaheim, California (March 2009), see here
Washington, DC @ Busboys and Poets (April 2009), see here
Case Western University (April 2009)
Oberlin College (April 2009)
Arab American Community Center: Youngstown, Ohio (April 2009)
University of Nebraska, Lincoln (April 2009)
University of Nebraska, Omaha (April 2009)
Dana College, Nebraska (April 2009)
Denver, Colorado (April 2009)
Boulder, Colorado (April 2009)
Pheonix, Arizona (June 2009)
Albuquerque, New Mexico (June 2009)
Houston, Texas (June 2009)
University of Adelaide and the Adelaide Festival of Ideas (July 2018)
Edward Said Memorial Lecture: Anti-Blackness, Settler-Colonialism, and the Question of Palestine
Foundation for Middle East Peace, Middle East Institute (May 18 2018)
Resistance at 70: The Future of the Palestinian National Movement
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (May 2018)
How Support for Israel's Violation of International Law Puts the US on the Wrong Side of History
University of Seattle Law School (Apr 19 2018)
Gates Public Interest Lecture Series: The Question of Palestine After Trump
Harvard Law School (Mar 9 2018)
Jerusalem After Trump (with Aaron David Miller)
UC Berkeley, Center for Middle East Studies (27-28 Apr 2017)
6 Days, 50 Years: 1967 and the Politics of Time (Keynote)
East London University, School of Politics and International Relations (26 May 2017)
Palestine Under Occupation: The Legitimation of Violence and the Violence of Legitimation (Keynote)
United Nations Forum to Mark Fifty Years of Occupation (30 June 2017)
Ending the Occupation: Creating the Space for Human Rights, Development and a Just Peace (Panelist)
National University of Singapore, Middle East Institute (May 2016)
The Middle East Peace Process After the Arab Uprisings
Yale University (April 2016)
From Occupation to Warfare: How Israel Expanded its Right to Use Force and Diminished Protections of Civilians
Ohio University, Baker Peace Studies Center and the Contemporary History Institute (March 2016)
History, War, and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East
Jerusalem/Birzeit/Nazareth (December 2015)
Alternative Strategies for Realizing Justice in Palestine
(Presenter & Member of Organizing Committee)
Cornell University School of Law (November 2015)
Beyond Survival: Livelihood Strategies for Refugees in the Middle East
Law for Black Lives (August 2015)
Global Solidarity: Struggles Against Racism & Police/State Violence Around the World
Al Sijal Institute (Amman, July 2015)
BDS at 10: Notes from the United States
American University in Beirut (July 2015)
Refugees and Migrants-Lebanon Workshop
(Organizer & Co-Coordinator of ASI's Refugees and Migrants Project)
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (June 2015)
The Colonial Politics of Civility: Implications of the Steven Salaita Case for Indigenous Studies and Beyond
Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (April 2015)
War on Gaza in the Age of Human Rights
Cal State Fullerton (March 2015)
President’s Day Celebration of International Women’s Day (Keynote): Gender and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Hawai'i Speaking Tour (November 2014)
Spotlight on Gaza: Contexts and Ethical Responses
City Club of Cleveland (November 2014)
Operation Protective Edge: Gaza in Context
University of Chicago (November 2014)
Operation Protective Edge: Gaza in Context
George Mason University (October 2014)
Operation Protective Edge: Legal and Political Implications of ICC Prosecution
UCLA Law School (October 2014)
Whiteness as Property: A Twenty Year Appraisal
Contemporary Civil Rights Debates
Rachel Corrie Foundation PeaceWorks 2014 Keynote With Angela Davis
Yet Again As Captives: Mass Incarceration in the U.S. and Palestine
Vienna + 20 Program, Rutgers University (October 2013)
Development, Democracy, Human Rights & The Arab Uprisings
Junior International Scholars’ Association Conference (February 2013)
New Imminence in the Age of Obama: The Impact of Targeted Killings on the Law of Self-Defense
American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt (November 2012)
The Death of the Two-State Solution
American Society of International Law Mid-Year Research Forum, Athens, GA (October 2012)
US v. ICRC: Customary International Humanitarian Law and Universal Jurisdiction
Palestine Center, Intern Lecture Series, Washington, D.C. (July 2012)
Palestinian Politics: Representation and Accountability
Columbia University, Palestine & Law Series, The State Question, Panel II (April 2012)
Self-determination and statehood in International Law
Briefing for the UN Israel/Palestine Working Group, New York, (February 2012)
Presentation of BADIL’s Submission to the 80th Session of the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
American University Law School, Founders’ Symposium, Washington, D.C. (February 2012)
Immunity, Accountability, and the Arab Uprisings
Middle East Studies Association, Washington, D.C. (December 2011)
The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination: Decentralized Leadership and International Solidarity
Blueprint for Accountability: Gaza, Goldstone, and the Crisis of Impunity (May 2011)
Roundtable discussion about the enduring relevance of Goldstone and the quest for accountability
Stanford University Law School, Stanford, California (March 2011)
Debate on the Goldstone Report featuring discussant Justice Richard Goldstone
UC Hastings Law School, San Francisco, California (March 2011)
Constructing the Prototypical Terrorist in America: Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian
University of Toronto Law School, Toronto, Canada (February 2011)
Is it Wrong or Illegal? Situating the Gaza Blockade Between International Law and the UN Response
MUWATIN: Palestinian Institute for Democracy, Ramallah, Palestine (October 2010)
Palestinians in the US, Politics of Exclusion, and Activism
American University in Beirut, UN in the Middle East Research Initiative (Ocotber 2010)
Is it Wrong or Illegal? Situating the Gaza Blockade Between International Law and the UN Response
Ruwad Stakeholder Meeting on Arbitrary Detention in Lebanon, Beirut, Lebanon (May 2010)
Habeas Corpus: Origins and use on behalf of African slaves, alleged terrorists, and Iraqi refugees
Interfaith Peace Builders Grassroots Advocacy Training-DC keynote speaker (March 2010)
Grassroots Lobbying on the Middle East: Iran, Syria, and Palestine
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee-MA keynote speaker (May 2009)
Grassroots Activism, International Solidarity, and Community Empowerment
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Conference, Georgetown University, Annual Symposium (April 2009)
International Law, Congress, and Palestine
U.S. House of Representatives (April 2009)
Congressional Briefing on Findings and Recommendations from Operation Cast Lead
McGill University, Montreal (November 2008)
International Law and Israeli Apartheid
Left Forum, New York (March 2007)
Hamas’ Electoral Victory: Political Cost-Analysis for Arab World and Palestinian Nation
New York University (November 2006)
Gaza’s humanitarian crisis looming in the shadow of Israel’s war on Lebanon
University of New Mexico Law School (November 2006)
Competing Narratives and the Impact on a Negotiated settlement: Israel’s quest for Peace and Security 1948-Present and Palestinian Human Rights
Johns Hopkins University, SAIS (October 2006)
Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations in Context
United National International Conference of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People, Geneva (September 2006)
US-based efforts to confront Israeli Apartheid
La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley (March 2006)
Israeli war crimes in U.S. courts: ATCA suits against Moshe Ya’alon and Avi Dichter
Middle East Studies Association Conference (November 2005)
Non-State Parties in International Criminal Tribunals: A case-study of Palestinian Refugees from Jenin Refugee Camp
National tour following NLG Gaza fact-finding delegation 2009 (International Law & Gaza)
Washington DC @ George Washington University (February 2009)
Washington, DC @ Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown (March 2009)
Berkeley Law School, UC Berkeley (March 2009)
San Francisco State University (March 2009)
South Bay Mobilization, San Jose (March 2009)
San Diego public library (March 2009)
University of California at Los Angeles (March 2009)
Anaheim, California (March 2009), see here
Washington, DC @ Busboys and Poets (April 2009), see here
Case Western University (April 2009)
Oberlin College (April 2009)
Arab American Community Center: Youngstown, Ohio (April 2009)
University of Nebraska, Lincoln (April 2009)
University of Nebraska, Omaha (April 2009)
Dana College, Nebraska (April 2009)
Denver, Colorado (April 2009)
Boulder, Colorado (April 2009)
Pheonix, Arizona (June 2009)
Albuquerque, New Mexico (June 2009)
Houston, Texas (June 2009)