NOURA ERAKAT
Associate Professor, Department of Africana Studies and Program in Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
“Palestine: Settler Colonialism, Sovereignty and Apartheid”
September 23, 2021, 4 P.M. ET
This hybrid event was recorded in Rockefeller Hall, Room 122, at Cornell University.
Human rights attorney, scholar, and author Noura Erakat will give
legal and historical perspectives on Palestine. Her discussion will
various strategies -- from invoking international legal frameworks to
social movement organizing around boycott -- that have been used to
counter settler colonial politics. This event is part of a year-long
ICM special series, "Settler Colonialism, Sovereignty and Apartheid."
Discussant: Russell Rickford, Department of History, Cornell University
Moderator: Aziz Rana, Law School, Cornell University
Co-sponsored by the Clark Initiative for Law and Development in the
Middle East and North Africa and Cornell Coalition for Justice in
Palestine (CCJP)
Speaker Biography
Noura Erakat is a human rights
attorney and an Associate Professor at Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in
Criminal Justice. Her research interests include human rights law,
humanitarian law, national security law, refugee law, social justice,
and critical race theory. Noura is a Co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya, an electronic magazine on the Middle East that combines scholarly expertise and local knowledge. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and in the Question of Palestine
(Stanford University Press, 2019), winner of the 2019 Palestine Book
Awards sponsored by the Middle East Monitor and winner of the
Independent Publishers Book Award's Bronze Medial in Current
Events/Foreign Affairs. Stanford University Press released Justice for Some in
paper in April 2020. She is currently a Non-Resident Visiting Fellow in
the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at the Religious Literacy
Project at the Harvard Divinity School.