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Program

Tuesday, 5 June 2007

Konrad Adenauer Conference Centre, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem

15:30-16:00 Reception and registration

16:00-16:30 Greetings

Mr. Christoph Harnisch, Head of Delegation, International Committee of the Red Cross, Israel, the Occupied and Autonomous Territories Delegation

Dr. Lars Hänsel, Representative in Israel, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Prof. Yoav Dotan, Dean, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

16:30-18:15 Panel I: The Limits of the Discourse

Chair:Dr. Aeyal Gross, Tel-Aviv University

Lectures: Prof. Yoram Dinstein, Tel-Aviv University

"The Beginning and the End of Belligerent Occupation"

Prof. Francoise Hampson, University of Essex

"International Humanitarian Law and the Danger of False Expectations"

Mr. Charles Shamas, Mattin Group, Ramallah

"The Political Logic of Law: When Power has Purposefully Chosen to Tie its Own Hands"

Brig.-Gen. Ken Watkin, Judge Advocate General, Canadian Forces

"Maintaining Law and Order during Occupation: Breaking the Normative Chains"

18:30-19:45 Keynote Address

Chair:Dr. Orna Ben-Naftali, College of Management Academic Studies

Address: Prof. Martti Koskenniemi, Academy of Finland/University of Helsinki

"Zone of Occupation - Zone of Proportionality"

Wednesday, 6 June 2007

Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus

09:30-11:15 Panel II: Occupation, Sovereignty and Self-Determination

Chair:Prof. Moshe Hirsch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Lectures: Prof. Nehal Bhuta, University of Toronto

"Belligerent Occupation, Transformative Occupation and Self-Determination – Conceptual Puzzles"

Prof. Noemi Gal-Or, Kwantlen University College

"Suspending Sovereignty: An Alternative to Occupation in the 21st Century?"

Prof. Steven Ratner, University of Michigan

"Occupation and Territorial Boundaries: Facts - and Law - on the Ground"

Prof. Yaffa Zilbershatz, Bar-Ilan University

"Between Belligerent Occupation and Colonial Occupation"

11:30-13:00 Panel III: Contextualizing the Law

Chair: Adv. Jonathan Kuttab

Lectures: Ms. Hilla Dayan, New School for Social Research, New York

“Outlaw Rule vs. Illegal Occupation: Regime of Separation and the Occupation Paradigm”

Dr. Yaël Ronen, Ono Academic College

"Unlawful Occupation - the Whys and Wherefores"

Mr. John Strawson, University of East London

“Occupation and the Colonial Footprints of International Law”

14:30-16:00 Panel IV: Interaction with Parallel Legal Regimes

Chair: Prof. Ruth Lapidoth, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and College of Management, Academic Studies

Lectures: Adv. Rotem Giladi, ICRC, Tel Aviv

"The Law of Occupation and the Jus ad Bellum/Jus in Bello Distinction"

Mr. Noam Lubell, National University of Ireland, Galway

"Violence, Resistance and Armed Conflict during Occupation - the Legal Paradigms and their Implications"

Prof. Andreas Zimmermann, University of Kiel

"Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law: Synergy or Conflict?"

16:15-17:45 Panel V: Interaction with Relevant Norms, Institutions and Processes

Chair: Amb. Dr. Robbie Sabel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Lectures: Dr. Orna Ben-Naftali, College of Management Academic Studies

"Application of International Humanitarian Law in the Shadow of International Criminal Law"

Mr. Grant Harris, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

“Human Rights, Israel, and the Political Realities of Occupation”

Dr. Ben Saul, University of Sydney

"Complementarity or Collision of Overlapping Legal Regimes: The Impact of Human Rights Law and Security Council Measures on the Law of Occupation"

Thursday, 7 June 2007

The Malka Brander Hall of Justice (Kes HaMishpat), Faculty of Law (Trubowicz Building), Tel-Aviv University

10:00-11:30 Panel VI: Occupation Law and the Method of International Law

Chair:Prof. Frances Raday, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, College of Management Academic Studies and University College London

Lectures: Dr. Amichai Cohen, Ono Academic College

"Rules and Standards in the Application of International Humanitarian Law"

Prof. Iain Scobbie, University of London

"Law under Normative Stress? Desuetude, Changing Circumstances and the Law of Occupation"

Dr. Yuval Shany, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"Binary Law Meets Complex Reality: The Occupation of Gaza Debate"

11:45-13:15 Panel VII: Enforcement in Local Courts

Chair: Dr. Hala Khoury-Bisharat, Haifa University, Tel-Aviv University and College of Management Academic Studies

Lectures: Dr. Tristan Ferraro, ICRC, Geneva

"Enforcement of Occupation Law: Issues and Opportunities"

Prof. David Kretzmer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ramat Gan College of Law and University of Ulster

"Hostilities in Occupied Territories"

Dr. Stefan Talmon, Oxford University

"Private Enforcement of International Humanitarian Law against Israeli Officials in Foreign Domestic Courts"

14:45-16:15 Panel VIII: Interactions with Policy, Politics and Diplomacy

Chair: Prof. Guy Mundlak, Tel-Aviv University

Lectures: Mr. Claude Bruderlein, Harvard University

"On Military Occupation and its Inextricable Legalism: A Critical Appraisal of International Humanitarian Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory"

Prof. Omar Dajani, University of the Pacific

"Dictates or Defaults? Negotiating Rights and Obligations under the Law of Occupation"

Dr. Sandy Kedar, Haifa University

Col. (res.) Shaul Arieli, Council for Peace and Security

"Israeli Courts and the Construction of a New Legal Geography in the Seam Zone between Israel/Palestine"

16:30-18:00 Concluding Roundtable: It's About Time?

Chair:Adv. Rotem Giladi, ICRC, Tel Aviv

Discussants: Prof. Eyal Benvenisti, Tel-Aviv University

Dr. Aeyal Gross, Tel-Aviv University