Birzeit University – Aristotle University

Statehood Ramifications on Palestine and the Palestinians: Legal, Political and Economic Implications
4 March 2019
Institute of Law, Room # 317
8:30 - 9:00 AM Registration
Welcoming Remarks:

Asem Khalil, Vice President for Community Affairs / Acting Director of Institute of Law – Birzeit
University
9:00 – 9:20 AM Halla Shoaibi, Chairperson of Department of Law – Faculty of Law and Public Administration,
Birzeit University

Grigoris Zarotadis, Dean of Faculty of Economics and Political Science – Aristotle University

First Session: Building a Palestinian State

Moderator: Halla Shoaibi
Participant: Title of Paper:
Ryan Corbett
Citizenship in Palestine and Singapore: A Comparative
Asylum Access Malaysia, Malaysia
Perspective
9:20 – 10:40 AM
The Challenge of Police Legitimacy in the Context of
Fadi Rabia
Limited Statehood: A Palestinian Case Study
Al-Quds University, Palestine

The Interplay Between Responsibility for Human Rights

Marco Longobardo
Protection in the Opt and Palestinian Statehood after
School of Law, Westminster University,
2012
UK

10:40 – 11:00
Coffee Break
AM

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 Second Session: Colonialism, Resistance, and Palestinian Statehood
Moderator: Grigoris Zarotadis

Participant: Title of Paper:

Itxaso Domínguez de Olazábal Semi-

Universidad Autónoma de consociationalism in Israel and the Debate around it, yet
11:00 AM – Madrid/Fundación, Spain another Mechanism of Settler Colonialism
12:20 PM
Ismail Al-Rozzi
A Palestinian Economy Towards Liberation
Birzeit University, Palestine

Alkistis Prepi and Konstantinos Gousis Legal Battles and Resilience Strategies: Rethinking
National Technical University of Athens, Political Subjectivity in Palestine
Greece; University of Roehampton, UK

12:20 – 1:30 PM Lunch

Third Session: Human Rights and Palestine

Moderator: Themis Tzimas

Participant: Title of Paper:

Walaa Ghabon Forced Feeding: A Study of Israeli Legal Practices towards

Birzeit University, Palestine Palestinian Prisoners
1:30 – 2:45 PM
Shaima Khalil Forced Displacement in International Law: The Red Khan
Birzeit University, Palestine Case Study

Virginia Tilley From Two States to One: Deeper Implications of the

Southern Illinois University, USA Apartheid

2:45 – 3:00 PM Coffee Break

Fourth Session: Problematizing Palestinian Statehood

Moderator: Reem Al-Botmeh
Participant: Title of Paper:

Jeremy Wildeman Palestinian Statehood and the Limitations of Donor Policy

University of Bath Department of Social and Perceptions
3:00 – 4:20 PM
and Policy Sciences, UK
Sari Arraf Envisioning the Palestinian Nation through a Shattered
Adalah, Palestine Lens of Statehood

Fouad Massad Palestinian Statehood: The Violence of Modernity and

Birzeit University, Palestine National Unity

4:20 – 4:50 PM Concluding Remarks Reem Al-Botmeh, Birzeit University

* Supported by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

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