Join us on January 29 for 2025 Distinguished Lecture of the Windsor Yearbook Access to Justice: Palestine and the challenge of Access to (International) Justice.
The question of Palestine has been raised before numerous domestic and international institutions of justice over the last year and a half, in part as a result of the conflict in Gaza. While much attention has been paid to these proceedings — whether at the ICJ, the ICC or domestic fora — there has been less attention paid to the long legacy of Palestinian appeals to (international) law as a lever by which they might seek justice as a stateless population in a post-colonial world. This talk will address the question of challenges to accessing justice at the international level through the prism of the Palestine question and ask how we might reimagine the role law and legal institutions might play in facilitating such justice in this context.
Aslı Ü. Bâli is Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Her research interests include public international law — particularly human rights law and the law of the international security order — and comparative constitutional law, with a focus on the Middle East. She has written on the nuclear non-proliferation regime, humanitarian intervention, the roles of race and empire in the interpretation and enforcement of international law, the role of judicial independence in constitutional transitions, federalism and decentralization in the Middle East, and constitutional design in religiously divided societies. Bâli received her doctorate in Politics from Princeton University in 2010 and her law degree from Yale. Before joining Yale she was Professor of Law at UCLA, Director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and Founding Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights. She currently serves as President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.