Stolen Nation: The Right to Reparation of Palestinian Refugees
Key information
- Date
- Time
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6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
- Venue
- Main Building, SOAS
- Room
- Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)
- Event type
- Book launch
About this event
While Palestinians continue to face the threat of expulsion from their homes, identifying legal mechanisms that can be used to assert Palestinian's property rights is needed more than ever. Stolen Nation: The Right to Reparation of Palestinian Refugees (2024, Bloomsbury) provides a legal analysis of the right to reparation of Palestinian refugees under international law for the destruction and expropriation of their property during the Nakba.
Discussing the legal landscape related to property ownership prior to the creation of the State of Israel and the legal basis for the right to reparation under international law, Lena El-Malak advocates for a law-based approach to enforce this right and the form it should take.
The book demonstrates how the legal rights of Palestinian refugees, specifically as related to their properties, have been marginalized and excluded from the political discourse of the “peace process”. Here, the legal rights of Palestinian refugees are demonstrated, challenges for invoking these rights in international and domestic courts are determined, and forms of restitution and compensation outlined. This study offers a timely contribution to provide a comprehensive legal, as opposed to a political, economic or historical analysis, of the right to reparation of Palestinian refugees for their property losses. Additionally, the book seeks to demonstrate the importance of adopting a legal framework in any future negotiation for a peaceful resolution to this long standing struggles for liberation.
This book launch is part of the SOAS Palestine Studies Book Series.
Photo by Benno Rothenberg / Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / CC BY 4.0
About the speaker
Lena El-Malak is an independent legal consultant with expertise in tech law, data privacy, public international law and refugee law. She has worked as a commercial attorney for Fortune500 companies, and as a legal and development consultant in the nonprofit sector.
She completed a doctoral thesis in public international law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK and her bachelor degrees in law at McGill University. She is the author of Stolen Nation.
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