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The 2016 Palestinian Juvenile Protection Law: A Quest for Further Reform

Qafisheh, Mutaz (International Journal for Legislative Drafting and Law Reform, London, 2016)

The State of Palestine became party to the International Convention on the Rights of the Child of 20 November 1989 (CRC) on 2 April 2014. Less than two years later, on 4 February 2016, President Mahmoud Abbas enacted ...
Article 1D (Commentary on Article 1D of the 1951 Refugee Convention)

Qafisheh, Mutaz; Azarov, Valentina (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2011)

Article 1 D forms part of the first article of the 1951 Convention which is dedicated, as appears from its heading, to the 'definition of the term “refugee”'. Section D is one of four sections (Art. 1 C, D, E, and F) that ...
Citizens of the State of Palestine and the Future of Palestinian Refugees

Qafisheh, Mutaz (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK, 2013)

Palestinian refugees constitute many different groups, depending on the status accorded to them in their places of residence. Thus, they may be considered as ordinary refugees, stateless, immigrants, permanent residents, ...
Clinical Legal Education in Palestine: A Clinical Case under Military Occupation

Qafisheh, Mutaz (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2015)

Patrick Geddes’ slogan ‘think global, act local’ is reversed in the case of the Legal Clinic of Hebron University. Although started to serve the local community in a relatively marginalized area in a southern Palestine’s ...
The Consistency of the Applicable Legislation in Palestine with International Law: The Two Human Rights Covenants

Qafisheh, Mutaz (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), United Nations, Geneva and Ramallah, 2014)

After its establishment, the State of Palestine would have, like any State, a set of rights under various branches of international law. It could become member of international courts, international organizations, party ...
Defining the Role of National Human Rights Institutions with Regard to the United Nations Human Rights System

Qafisheh, Mutaz (Independent Commission for Human Rights, Ramallah, Palestine, 2004)

The present study intends to define the legal status of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in their relations with the UN human rights system. It is therefore attempting to answer two main questions. First, is there ...
Experimental Legal Education in a Globalized World: The Middle East & Beyond

Qafisheh, Mutaz; Rosenbaum, Stephan (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK, 2016)

Legal education is currently undergoing a paradigm shift. Traditional law instruction, lecturing and memorizing have become a fading fashion, with legal clinics increasingly cropping up. These allow law students to practice ...
Human Rights at the Time of Transition: How Security Forces Can be Held Accountable in a Divided Community?

Qafisheh, Mutaz (Oxford University Press, 2020-01-09)

The Palestinian Authority has established various mechanisms to monitor its security forces and hold them accountable over human rights violations. This article explores and assesses the accountability measures that deal ...
The International Law Foundations of Palestinian Nationality: A Legal Examination of Palestinian Nationality under Britain’s Rule

Qafisheh, Mutaz (Martinus Nijhoff (Brill), Leiden and Boston, 2008)

By the end of British rule in Palestine on 14 May 1948, Palestinian nationality had become well established in accordance with both domestic law and international law. Accordingly, the legal origin of Palestinian nationality ...
The Israeli Violations of Palestinian Citizens’ Rights during 2001

Qafisheh, Mutaz (Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens’ Rights, Ramallah, Palestine, 2002)

This chapter addresses the various violations against Palestinian human rights committed by Israel during the year 2001, the second year of Al-Aqsa Intifada. These violations breach international humanitarian law and human ...
La nationalité palestinienne selon du droit local et du droit international

Qafisheh, Mutaz (Institut national des langues et civilisation orientales, Paris, 2001)

This chapter deals with the question of Palestinian nationality in the traditional period after the Oslo Accords, based on the applicable law in Palestine as well as on international law.
Modern Legal Education in Palestine: The Clinical Programs of Hebron University

Qafisheh, Mutaz (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK, 2016)

From 1948 until 1994, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza had no law school; lawyers and judges received their legal training mainly from Europe or in neighboring countries, notably Egypt and Jordan. In 1986, an ambitious ...
Nationality and Domicile in Palestine

Qafisheh, Mutaz (brahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies, Birzeit University, Ramallah, 2000)

This book consists of three parts. Part I deals with the history and legal aspects relating to Palestinian nationality based on applicable domestic legislation in Gaza and the West Bank as well as on public international ...
Palestine Membership in the United Nations: Legal and Practical Implications

Qafisheh, Mutaz (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK, 2013)

This book aims to bridge the scientific gap that exists with regard to Palestine’s membership of the UN as a State. As international law cannot operate outside the context of the global political atmosphere, the book focuses ...
Palestine: Lawyering between Colonisation and the Struggle for Professional Independence

Qafisheh, Mutaz (Hart Publishing, Oxford/London/New York, 2020-02-19)

Regulation of the Palestinian legal profession dates from the arrival of British forces during World War I and is an amalgam of the legal systems that have governed Palestine since its detachment from the Ottoman Empire ...
‘Palestine’, in Scott Decker & Nerea Marteache (Arizona State University), eds., International Handbook of Juvenile Justice

Qafisheh, Mutaz (2017)

The State of Palestine became a state party to the International Convention on the Rights of the Child of 20 November 1989 (CRC) on 2 April 2014. This accession sheds the light, once again, on the situation of children in ...
Palestine’s Accession to CEDAW: One Step of the Thousand-mile Journey

Qafisheh, Mutaz (Routledge, London and New York, 2019)

The State of Palestine acceded to Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on April 1, 2014. By reviewing the list of state parties to CEDAW on the United Nations Treaty System, ...
Palestine’s Obligations under the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Qafisheh, Mutaz (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK, 2013)

It might be relevant, in the light of Palestine’s initiative aimed at securing membership of the United Nations (UN), to start thinking of the obligations of this projected State towards the people under its jurisdiction ...
Palestinian Nationality: Present Situation, Legal Status, and Human Rights Standards

Qafisheh, Mutaz (Palestinian Independent Human Rights Commission, Ramallah, 2000)

This book focuses on nationality as a human right in Palestine based on international standards. It evaluates the applicable municipal law in light with international law relating to nationality that is considered ‘the ...
Palestinian Prisoners in Israel versus Namibian Prisoners under the Apartheid: A Potential Role for the International Criminal Court

Qafisheh, Mutaz (Routledge, London, 2016)

This article compares the status of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails with the experiences of Namibian prisoners during apartheid South Africa. The situations in South Africa and Israel have much in common: both adopted ...

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