The Banality of Occupation: Law, Control, and Resistance in Israel-Palestine

How does law function as a tool of control in Israel-Palestine? Specifically, in what ways are military, civil, and administrative law used to legitimize occupation policies?  At the same time, to what extent can international law function as a framework for resistance?  By investigating these questions, this study applies a legal lens to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to better understand the potential of law in both sustaining and challenging the occupation.

Julie M. Norman is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal.  She is the author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: Civil Resistance (Routledge 2010) and a co-editor of Nonviolent Resistance in the Second Intifada: Activism and Advocacy (Palgrave 2011), and she also writes on media activism and international law in Israel-Palestine.  Julie is a coordinator and media trainer with Voices Beyond Walls, a participatory media project in the West Bank, and she has worked on several documentary films in the region.  Julie has a PhD in International Relations from American University in Washington, DC, with concentrations in Human Rights and International Peace and Conflict Resolution.