TLRJN Speaker Series on the Legal Geographies of Occupation and Racial Extraction presents:
Dr. Hadeel S. Abu Hussein– The Architecture of Legal Exclusion and Palestinian apartheid in East Jerusalem, JANUARY 22nd, 12pm, MOOT COURT room. Register
Dr. S Abu Hussein’s research delves into the evolution of land law within a settler-colonial framework, examining how states construct land regimes to marginalize and exclude vulnerable groups. Utilizing critical legal geography theory, her work provides a nuanced understanding of the intersection between law, space, and power. Her book, “The Struggle for Land Under Israeli Law: An Architecture of Exclusion”, critically analyzes the land laws in Israel/Palestine through the lenses of international law, colonization, and critical legal geography. It offers a comprehensive study of Palestinian rights to land under Israeli law exploring issues of land expropriation, forced evictions, and the broader settler-colonial land regime.
Hadeel interrogates how land and land regime —a fundamental resource for human existence, development, and political power—becomes a tool for shaping social and political hierarchies. Her lecture will unpack these systematic spatial strategies of marginalization, offering a critical perspective on how law and space intersect in civil, political, and socio-economic landscapes, focussing on East Jerusalem.
Bio: Dr Hadeel S. Abu Hussein is a Palestinian lawyer and scholar who is currently a senior research fellow at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam at the Hague Campus. Hadeel’s research explores international law, human rights, social justice, colonialism, and racism. her work is informed by TWAIL and critical legal geography Her publications include ‘The Struggle for Land under Israeli Law, An Architecture of Exclusion’ (Routledge 2022). Alongside her research, she practices human rights and constitutional law.
Next up in the Speaker Series:
Feb 5th, noon– Dr. Uahikea Maile, On Being Late: Cruising Mauna Kea and Unsettling Technoscientific Conquest in Hawaiʻi
Mar 5th, noon– Dr. Sara Ghebremusse, Colonial Continuities: Law, Land, and the Racial Geographies of Canadian Mining Interests in Southern Africa