Module course for LAW7049_01_S2_202627 offered at LOC: by Law (ORG:LAWS)
Convenor name: Professor Nimer Sultany
Convenor email: ns30@soas.ac.uk
Office room: S228
Intended learning outcomes:
| LO1 | Demonstrate in‑depth knowledge of the roles played by international law, international institutions and Israeli law in enabling, managing and contesting colonial domination and dispossession in Palestine. |
| LO2 | Critically examine how legal concepts, institutions and arguments—including those of international law, Israeli law and Palestinian legal traditions—shape the relationships between law, politics, power and resistance in the context of Palestine from the late Ottoman period to the present. |
| LO3 | Critically reflect on the potentialities and limitations of international law and human rights as strategies of resistance, accountability and liberation in Palestine, and on the relevance of these insights for other contexts of law and resistance. |
| LO4 | Communicate advanced, critically engaged analyses of Palestine, resistance and the law through seminar discussion, evaluated presentations of assigned readings, and a substantial research paper aimed at academic and wider publics. |
Assessment 1: Name: PS1
Assessment 1: Weighting: 10%
Assessment 1: Format: Oral presentation
Assessment 2: Name: AS1
Assessment 2: Weighting: 90%
Assessment 2: Format: 3,500 words essay
Page template: On campus 2026/27
