The legality of the West Bank Wall: Israel's High Court of Justice v. the International Court of Justice. From: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law | Date: November 1, 2007| Author: Kattan, Victor | COPYRIGHT 2007 Vanderbilt University, School of Law. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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This Article offers a critique of the decision reached by Israel's High Court of Justice in the Mara'abe Case (2005) as well as some aspects of the International Court of Justice's Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (2004). The Article takes a socio-legal and facts-based approach to analyzing the decisions' discussions of settlements, self-determination, and self-defense, examining all ...

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