International law plays a critical role in discourses around Israel-Palestine. What norms does it furnish concerning sovereignty, self-determination, human rights, and territory? When and how may military force be used? What avenues exist for enforcement and accountability?
Join us for a wide-ranging conversation about the regional implications of these questions with experts in international law. 
Notre Dame IDs will be required for entrance to this event, and backpacks and large bags will be checked.

Featuring:



Omar Dajani
Carol Olson Professor in International Law, University of the Pacific
Omar Dajani teaches Contracts, Constitutional Law, international Negotiations, and Public International Law. His scholarship, which explores how the law operates in the context of international conflict resolution processes and political transitions, focuses on the Middle East, particularly Israel-Palestine. His recent publications include Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2023, co-edited, with Aslı Bâli). Before joining the faculty at McGeorge School of Law, he served as legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team in peace talks with Israel, participating in the summits at Camp David and Taba, and as political adviser in the office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) in Jerusalem. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Joint Board of A Land for All, an Israeli-Palestinian peace movement. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and Yale Law School.






Chimène Keitner
Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis
Chimène Keitner is a leading authority on international law and civil litigation, and served as the 27th Counselor on International Law in the U.S. Department of State. She has authored two books and dozens of articles, essays, and book chapters on questions surrounding the relationship among law, communities, and borders, including issues of jurisdiction, extraterritoriality, foreign sovereign and foreign official immunity, and the historical understandings underpinning current practice in these areas.
Among other professional service, Professor Keitner has served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law and as Co-Chair of the ASIL International Law in Domestic Courts Interest Group. She is a member of the American Law Institute and an Adviser on the ALI’s Fourth Restatement of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States. She is also a founding co-chair of the International Law Association’s Study Group on Individual Responsibility in International Law.






Moderator: Mary Ellen O'Connell
Robert & Marion Short Professor of Law and Professor of International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
Mary Ellen O'Connell's work is in the areas of international law on the use of force, international dispute resolution, and international legal theory. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including, most recently, The Art of Law in the International Community (Cambridge University Press, May 2019; paperback 2020) and Self-Defence Against Non-State Actors (with Tams and Tladi, Cambridge University Press, July 2019).
From 2010-2012, she was a vice president of the American Society of International Law and from 2005 to 2010 chaired the International Law Association Committee on the Use of Force. O’Connell served as a Title X professional military educator for the U.S. Department of Defense in Germany and was also an associate attorney in private practice with the international law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. 


Originally published at forum2024.nd.edu.