2025 Leiden Journal of International Law Lecture

For what and for whom does international law and organization operate? From knowledge production to practice, is the discipline truly universal? In this lecture, Professor Ardi Imseis explores these themes to examine why the Question of Palestine now presents the international legal order with its most serious existential crisis since the Second World War.

Speaker: Professor Ardi Imseis

Associate Professor, Queen’s University, Canada

Barrister and advocate before the International Court of Justice

Author of The United Nations and the Question of Palestine

About the Speaker

Dr. Ardi Imseis is Associate Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, where he Co-Directs the International Law Program. He is the 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 as a Member of the UN commission of inquiry into the civil war in Yemen. He has advised and served as Legal Counsel and advocate before the International Court of Justice, most recently in the case concerning 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.