Brown Bag Lunch Series

Speaker: Zinaida Miller, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School and author of ‘Perils of Parity: Palestine’s Permanent Transition’ (Cornell International Law Journal, forthcoming 2014) and ‘Effects of Invisibility: In Search of the ‘Economic’ in Transitional Justice’ (International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2008)

Last summer’s events in Gaza not only raised a host of human rights and humanitarian law issues but highlighted a question that has been fundamental since the 1993 Declaration of Principles between Israel and the Palestinians: who governs the West Bank and Gaza? What role do international actors and international law play in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? This talk will focus on the effects that international aid and expertise have had on the conflict and the dilemmas faced by human rights and humanitarian actors who work and litigate in Israel and the occupied territories.

Zinaida Miller is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy and a doctoral candidate in International Affairs at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. Her work examines the law and policy of post-conflict reconstruction, focusing on the interplay between ideas and institutions in the fields of transitional justice, state- and peacebuilding, human rights, and humanitarian aid.  Her dissertation examines international intervention in Palestine and Rwanda after the Cold War, mapping the allocation of power and authority among national and international actors in the aftermath of conflict, the institutionalization of the international post-conflict agenda on the ground, and the effects of international discourses on resistance and political struggle. She is currently co-editing Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda (Cambridge University Press) with Judge Dennis Davis (High Court, Cape Town) and Professor Karen Engle (UT-Austin). Previous publications include “Perils of Parity: Palestine’s Permanent Transition” (Cornell International Law Journal, 2014) and “Effects of Invisibility: In Search of the ‘Economic’ in Transitional Justice” (International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2008). She holds a B.A. from Brown University, a Masters in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Kosher pizza will be served.

Photo credit: Muhammad Sabah/B’Tselem (Creative Commons)

Brown Bag Lunch Series