(University of Oregon School of Law, 2015-09-10) Sayed, Hani
Academic and policy discussions dealing with the State of Israel’s control of the West Bank and Gaza strip (WBGS), are permeated by judgments about legality. Whenever confronted with an institutional imperative to act in reaction to any political, economic, or security/military development in the WBGS, discussions among academics, policy makers or governmental and non-governmental institutional actors working on the ground are quickly framed as questions of whether this development is legal.