South Africa vs Israel: Genocide, International Law, and Germany's position

Legal scholar Dr. Nahed Samour will discuss the ICJ’s decision on provisional measures in the South Africa case against Israel for genocide, its consequences and implications, and the current legal discourse surrounding the decision on Palestine and international law, with special reference to Germany's position. The talk will be moderated by Dr. Marion Detjen.

Dr. Nahed Samour is Research Associate at Radboud University, Nijmegen in the Race-Religion-Constellations research project. She studied Law and Islamic Studies at the universities of Bonn, Birzeit/Ramallah, School of Orient and African Studies London, Humboldt University Berlin, Harvard University, and Damascus University. She was a doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt/Main. She clerked at the Court of Appeals in Berlin, and held a Post Doc position at the Eric Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, Helsinki University, Finland and was Early Career Fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen Institute for Advance Study. She has taught as Junior Faculty at Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy from 2014-2018. From 2019-2022, she was Core Emerging Investigator at the Integrative Research Institute Law & Society, Humboldt University Berlin. She is member of the Arab German Young Academy and co-editor of the book Arab Berlin (transkript 2023).

In cooperation with the Mellon funded Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education

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For more information, e-mail [email protected].

Time: 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm CET/GMT+1

Location: Lecture Hall P98a

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