Crisis as Precedent: Population Exchange and the Making of Israel - Itamar Mann Seminar
Location:
Edinburgh Law School
Date/time
Tue 12 October 2021
14:00-15:30
The Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law presents
Crisis as Precedent: Population Exchange and the Making of Israel
Dr Itamar Mann, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, The University of Haifa
About the seminar
By tracing the genealogy of population exchange starting from the Greek-Turkish precedent formalized in the 1923 Lausanne Agreement, this article provides a novel understanding of hierarchical relations in contemporary Israel-Palestine. British mandate authorities relied on the Lausanne model when they proposed a population swap to create two states in Palestine. After WWII, the bulk of the proposed model was adopted in the “Partition Plan” articulated in UN General Assembly Resolution 181. Yet with the rise of human rights, international law generally rejected legalized population exchange. The article contributes a generalizable insight to transnational legal theory by offering an understanding of “legal fossils.” Such are legal doctrines and arrangements that are seemingly no longer with us, but which, upon close inspection, remain as partially-acknowledged imprints of a legal past.
About the speaker
Dr. Mann's research and teaching interests are in international law (especially at the intersections with refugee and migration law), environmental law, and legal theory. Alongside an introductory course on public international law, and one on jurisprudence, he teaches electives on human rights and environmental law. In 2021 attorney Sharon Madel Artzy of FBC & co and Dr. Mann started a workshop on law and climate change, first of its kind in Israel.
A large part of Dr. Mann's research focuses on legal, political, and ethical questions that arise from largescale migration. His book, Humanity at Sea: Maritime Migration and the Foundations of International Law, came out with Cambridge University Press in 2016. His articles appeared in leading journals including the European Journal of International Law, the Texas Law Review, and more. He also works as a legal advisor to the international human rights organization GLAN (the Global Legal Action Network).
Prior to coming to Haifa Dr. Mann was a National Security Law Fellow at Georgetown Law Centre. He holds JSD and LLM degrees from Yale Law School, and an LLB degree from Tel Aviv University.
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