Under the editorship of Nimer Sultany, the peer-reviewed Volume 24 of the Palestine Yearbook of International Law includes articles on Zionism, the legality of the British Mandate over Palestine, property rights in East Jerusalem, abolitionism and Israeli carceral regime, and the legal struggle over BDS in Spain. The Yearbook is an unparalleled reference work of general international law, in particular as related to Palestine and the Palestinian people. Published in cooperation with the Birzeit University Institute of Law, the Yearbook is a valuable resource for anyone seeking well-researched and timely information about Palestine and critical approaches to international law. Contributors include John Quigley, Anna Roiser, Annika Johnson, Fernando Acuña, and Esmat Halaby.
Nimer Sultany, is Reader in Public Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His publications include Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring (OUP 2017).
List of Contributors VII Introduction
Part 1: Foreword
The Wrongs of Zionism Nimer Sultany
Part 2: Articles
The Jurisdiction Flaw in Mavrommatis Palestine Concessions and its Implication for Current Claims to Territory in Historic Palestine John Quigley
Territory or Commodity: Land, Law, and Narrative in Israel and East Jerusalem Anna Roiser
Locating Abolition in Palestinian Resistance to the Israeli Carceral Regime Annika Johnson
Part 3: Case Commentaries
Case Commentary: The Legal Battle Over Support for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions by Public Institutions in Spain Fernando Acuña
Part 4: Review Essays
A Dying Postcolonialism
Review Essay; Unacknowledged Kinships: Postcolonial Studies and the Historiography of Zionism (Stefan Vogt, Derek Penslar, & Arieh Saposnik eds., 2023)
Esmat Elhalaby
Book Review
Neve Gordon & Nicola Perugini, Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire (University of California Press, 2020) Anne Irfan