title: Of Tactics, Illegal Occupation and the Boundaries of Legal Capability: A Reply to Ardi Imseis
abstract: Abstract This contribution engages with Ardi Imseis’s article ‘Negotiating the Illegal: On the United Nations and the Illegal Occupation of Palestine, 1967–2020’. In reply, I contemplate whether an occupation’s legal status can or should affect the requirement that an occupying power must withdraw from the territory that it controls. I consider Imseis’s claim that it is necessary to declare that an occupation has become illegal to move beyond the tension that exists between the requirements of s
journal: European Journal of International Law