Too Little, Too Late? On the Meaning and Consequences of the Recognition of the State of Palestine

Conférence-Débat GRAM - IREDIES

Organisée par la Professeure Evelyne Lagrange et le Professeur Jean Matringe

Too Little, Too Late? On the Meaning and Consequences of the Recognition of the State of Palestine

Par Ardi Imseis
Professeur associé de droit international, Queen’s University

Jeudi 25 septembre 2025
18h-20h
Salle 216 – 2ème étage de l’aile Cujas du centre Panthéon 
(12 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris)

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Dr. Ardi Imseis is Associate Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University. He is author of The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity (Cambridge University Press 2023).
In 2019 he was named by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to serve as a Member of the UN commission of inquiry into the civil war in Yemen. He has advised and served as Legal Counsel before the International Court of Justice in a number of cases, most recently the case concerning the Legal Obligations of Israel in Relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organizations and Third States in and In Relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory. 
Between 2002 and 2014, he served in senior legal and policy capacities in the Middle East with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He has provided expert testimony in his personal capacity before various high-level bodies, including the UN Security Council, the UN Human Rights Council, and the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. 
Professor Imseis’s scholarship has appeared in a wide array of international journals, and he is former Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Yearbook of International Law (Brill; 2008-2019) and Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Human Rights Fellow, Columbia Law School. Professor Imseis holds a Ph.D. (Cambridge), an LL.M. (Columbia), LL.B. (Dalhousie), and B.A. (Hons.) (Toronto).

Professor Imseis appears in his personal capacity.
 

Photographie d'illustration : UN Photo/Jean Marc Ferri - Le drapeau de l'État de Palestine est hissé aux Nations Unies à Genève, disponible sur le site internet des Nations Unies.

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