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Balfour Project Rule of Law Conference Brochure Israel/Palestine: in search of the rule of law 25 & 26 May 2021 Free online conference What is the Balfour Project for? What brings us together is a clear aim: Welcome from Sir Peace, Justice and Equal Rights in Israel/Palestine. Vincent Fean, Mission Statement Balfour Project Acknowledging Britain’s historical and Chair continuing responsibilities, through popular education and advocacy to The Balfour Project charity works for peace, justice and uphold equal rights for the Israeli and equal rights in Israel/Palestine, Palestinian peoples. To persuade the through education and British Government to recognise the advocacy. Britain governed state of Palestine alongside the state of Mandate Palestine for over 30 Israel. years. How you can help What was done then in our name is still felt today. Aware of those The conference is free, but please historic responsibilities, we seek to advance equal rights for both consider a donation to help us keep peoples, Israeli and Palestinian. The British Government should now going. recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel, www.peoplesfundraising.com/ acknowledging the right to self-determination of both peoples. donation/balfour-project Britain can promote the cause of peace with justice, for the good of We also seek sponsors for our Peace all. Advocacy Fellowship Programme. The Balfour Project plans to appoint up to 20 Balfour Project Peace Advocacy Current policy towards Israel/Palestine is not working. The UK/EU/ Fellowships for the academic year US shared aim of two sovereign states is undermined systematically, daily. The occupation is entrenched. We owe the two peoples parity 2021/22. Successful candidates are of esteem, but we do not treat them equally. Policy needs re-shaping mostly post-graduates or final year to be effective, rights-based, and to respect the law in deed as well as undergraduates with an interest in in word. promoting peaceful solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This conference compares the rule of law with “the law in these parts” – in the Palestinian territory occupied militarily by Israel in 1967. UN Security Council Resolution 242 affirms that acquiring territory by war is inadmissible. Britain helped to draft the Geneva Conventions, prohibiting the transfer by the occupying power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies. Israel’s state-sponsored settlement project breaches UNSCR 242, those Conventions and the statute of the International Criminal Court. Are there consequences? We will measure the distance between international law and harsh reality in the Occupied Palestinian Territory; discuss developments at the ICC and on the ground; listen to concerned Palestinian and Israeli voices, and ask Parliamentarians how to set about positive change. Lasting peace will only come with equality. www.balfourproject.org Conference Schedule Day 1—Tuesday 25 May 2021 3.45pm Welcome – Sir Vincent Fean & Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC 3.50pm Why the rule of law matters – Rt Hon Baroness Hale of Rich- mond 4.15pm Israel/Palestine: recent developments at the ICJ and ICC – Philippe Sands QC 4.35pm Discussion between Philippe Sands and John McHugo, Bal- four Project Trustee Measuring the 4.50pm Q&A with Philippe Sands QC 5.15pmIT SUPPORT Why a SOLUTIONS rights-based approach makes a just, lasting political distance between solution more likely, and why now – Zaha Hassan 5.45pm The dual legal system in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, international law — and the role of the Supreme Court of Israel – Michael Sfard 6.15pm Discussion between Zaha Hassan and Michael Sfard, moder- ated by Dominic Grieve QC which Britain has 6.40pm Remarks by Dominic Grieve QC 6.45pm Forward look to Day 2 with Sir Vincent Fean pledged to uphold — Day 2—Wednesday 26 May 2021 and the lived reality 2.00pm Welcome - Andrew Whitley, Balfour Project Trustee 2.05pm International Law: indispensable in the search for a just Mid- in the Occupied dle East peace – Prof Michael Lynk 2.45pm Four case studies introduced by Michael Lynk: Palestinian Territory. • The settlement project - Hagit Ofran • Palestinian children in Israeli military detention – Sahar Francis To reserve your free place, • Gaza – Issam Younis • Accountability – Nada Kiswanson visit 3.45pm Panel discussion and Q&A www.balfourproject.org/ 4.45pm Parliamentary session, chaired by Lord Alderdice 4.50pm Can international law prevail in Israel/Palestine, and if so, rule-of-law how? The role of the UK - Rt Hon Jack Straw 5.15pm Panel discussion – Jack Straw, Wayne David MP, Layla Moran MP, Joanna Cherry QC MP, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, moderated by Lord Alderdice 5.55pm Remarks by Lord Alderdice 6.00pm Conference conclusion—Andrew Whitley www.balfourproject.org Day 1—Tuesday 25 May 2021 3.45pm Welcome by Sir Vincent Fean & Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC Accessing the Sir Vincent Fean (Balfour Project Chair) was a member conference of the British Diplomatic Service (1975-2014). His last post was as Consul-General, Jerusalem (2010-14). He has also been Ambassador to Libya and High Commissioner To register for this online to Malta. conference, please visit www.tinyurl.com/ Vincent advocates equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians, and British Government recognition of the ruleoflawconference state of Palestine alongside Israel on pre-June 1967 lines. You will then receive an email with your personal joining link. The same link can be used to attend any or all of the Dominic Grieve is a sessions across this two-day barrister and a visiting conference. You are free to log professor on Law, Politics in and out as you please using and Human Rights at your personal link. Goldsmiths, University of London. From 1997-2019 Please type any questions you he was MP for have to the speakers in the Beaconsfield. He was chat box. The speakers are not Shadow Home Secretary monitoring this, but some from 2008-09 and questions will be taken Shadow Justice Secretary forward to the Q&A session at from 2008-10. He was the end of the day. Attorney General of England and Wales from 2010-14. From 2015-19 he was chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Recordings and transcripts of Parliament. the sessions will later be available on the Balfour Project Dominic will be chairing Day 1 of the conference. website. www.balfourproject.org Day 1—Tuesday 25 May 2021 3.50pm Why the rule of law matters Rt Hon Baroness Hale of Richmond Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, retired in January 2020 as President of the Supreme Court of the UnitedIT SUPPORT Kingdom, SOLUTIONS the apex court for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. She was educated at Richmond High School for Girls, in North Yorkshire, and Girton College, Cambridge, where she is now Visitor, and called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn. After graduating, she spent 18 years teaching, researching and writing in Law at the University of Manchester, also practising for a while at the Manchester Bar. She then became a member of the Law Commission, a statutory body which makes proposals for the reform of the Law. Her proudest achievement there was the Children Act 1989. In 1994, she was appointed a High Court Judge, the first to have made a career as an academic and Rt Hon Baroness Hale public servant rather than as a top barrister. In 1999 of Richmond she was promoted to the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and in 2004 became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in the House of Lords, the first and sadly the only woman ever to hold that office. In 2009 the ‘Law Lords’ were transformed into Justices of the newly established Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. She became Deputy President in 2013 and President in 2017. www.balfourproject.org (c) Antonio Olmos Day 1—Tuesday 25 May 2021 4.15pm Israel/Palestine: recent developments at the ICJ and ICC Philippe Sands QC Philippe Sands QC Philippe Sands QC is Professor of Law at University College London and a practising barrister at Matrix Chambers. He appears as counsel before international courts and tribunals, and sits as an international arbitrator. He is the author of Lawless World (2005), Torture Team (2008), East West Street (2016) and numerous books on international law, and has contributed to the New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, the Financial Times, The Guardian and the New York Times. John McHugo 4.35pm In his books, John McHugo (Balfour Project Discussion between Philippe trustee) tries to explain how we in the West have contributed to the catastrophic state of Sands and John McHugo, Balfour affairs that currently obtains in the Middle East. He is the author of A Concise History of Project Trustee the Arabs, Syria: A Recent History and A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi'is. During his legal career, he worked on international 4.50pm boundary disputes in the Middle East for over ten years. Q&A with Philippe Sands QC www.balfourproject.org Day 1—Tuesday 25 May 2021 5.15pm Why a rights-based approach makes a just, lasting political solution more likely, and why now Zaha Hassan IT SUPPORT SOLUTIONS Zaha Hassan is a human rights lawyer and visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research focus is on Palestine-Israel peace, the use of international legal mechanisms by political movements, and U.S. foreign policy in the region. Previously, she was the coordinator and senior legal Zaha Hassan advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team during Palestine’s bid for UN membership, and was a member of the Palestinian delegation to Quartet-sponsored exploratory talks between 2011 and 2012. She regularly participates in track II peace efforts and is a contributor to The Hill and Haaretz.
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