DATE
Monday
April 1, 2024
12-1:30pm
LOCATION
Scheps Library, Room 457,
Department of Anthropology
Schermerhorn Extension
Much of what we are experiencing with respect to the American government's position on the current assault on Gaza reflects how American law has been structured to deny both solidarity with, and resistance by, the Palestinian people to Israeli military occupation and apartheid. This talk will examine this state of affairs and offer remarks on whether there is room for reimagining an American legal landscape to offer the possibility of truly supporting the Palestinian people in their quest for self-determination.
WADIE SAID is Professor of Law and Dean's Faculty Fellow at the University of Colorado School of Law, where he teaches courses in Criminal Law and Procedure. He is a former assistant federal public defender and author of Crimes of Terror (Oxford University Press), the first study of terrorism prosecutions in the United States.
Poster image Naim Sharif, Aiad Barakat and Bashar Amer wave to supporters outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles after being released on bail. The three men, along with four other Palestinians and one Kenyan woman, faced years of deportation proceedings over their association with a faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. 1987. (UCLA Library Special Collections)