Shahd Hammouri

1 week ago | middleeasteye.net | Sondos Asem |Shahd Hammouri

The United Kingdom delegation to the UN's top court on Thursday criticised Israel's two-month ban on humanitarian aid to Gaza as legally unjustifiable.

Sep 16, 2024 | qoshe.com | Shahd Hammouri

On September 2, the British government announced the suspension of 30 of 350 arms export licences to Israel. It said these weapons exports could be used to “commit or facilitate a serious violation of international humanitarian law”. While this announcement was hailed by some as a positive development that reflects growing international pressure on Israel to stop its genocidal war in Gaza, it in no way fulfils the United Kingdom’s obligations under international law.

Jul 3, 2024 | electronicintifada.net | Shahd Hammouri

Last month, an independent UN Commission of Inquiry presented its findings on the situation in Palestine and Israel since 7 October during the 56th session of the Human Rights Council.

Mar 11, 2024 | opiniojuris.org | Shahd Hammouri

A Forgotten Detail: The Right of Return was a Condition of the Establishment of the State of Israel 11.03.24 | [Shahd Hammouri is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent. She researches tensions arising at the intersection of the public and the economic in international law from a global south perspective using tools of critical theory. In the past few years, her focus has been corporate profiteering and war economies. She has experience as an international legal consultant with...

Jan 22, 2024 | lpeproject.org | Brian Callaci |Ivana Isailovic |Shahd Hammouri

The Biden administration has taken welcome steps to reform antitrust policy, including a long overdue abandonment of the dominant pro-corporate “consumer welfare” approach to antitrust. In particular, the antitrust agencies have raised the hopes of the labor movement and labor advocates by stating repeatedly that harms to labor from restraints of trade, mergers, and monopolistic practices will, at long last, be taken as seriously as harms to consumers when bringing cases and setting policy.