The Limits and Potential of International Law in Achieving Accountability in Gaza
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CCAS is honored to welcome Professor Noura Erakat as the 2024 Kareema Al-Khoury lecturer. She will present “The Limits and Potential of International Law in Achieving Accountability in Gaza.” Professor Erakat is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019). She will discuss international law in the context of the current crisis in Gaza.
The annual lecture is given in honor of Kareema Al-Khoury whose family established the event in 1976 to bring eminent scholars of the Arab world to Georgetown for a public lecture.
Professor Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She recently completed a non-resident fellowship of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School. Noura is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She is a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival. She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the US House of Representatives, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights, and as national organizer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Noura has also produced video documentaries, including “Gaza In Context” and “Black Palestinian Solidarity.” Her writings have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, Al Jazeera, and the Boston Review. She is a frequent commentator on CBS News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, the BBC, and NPR, among others. In 2022, she was selected as a Freedom Fellow by the Marguerite Casey Foundation.