Michelle Burgis-Kasthala
Lecturer
Room: 135
Office Hours
Tel: 1943
Email: mb107
st-andrews.ac.uk
Teaching
- IR3036: Introduction to Public International Law and International Legal Theory
- IR4099: Dissertation
- IR4533: The Arab-Israeli Conflict
- IR5099: Dissertation
- IR5525: The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Past & Present
Research
Keywords: International Law, International Court of Justice, International Legal Theory, Jurisprudence, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Arab Legal Traditions
Michelle Burgis is an international lawyer interested in the legitimacy of international legal norms and institutions for Arab states. Her work has focussed on the use of international dispute resolution by Arab states and the discursive avenues available to Third World states in the postcolonial era. Currently, she plans to assess the legitimacy of international legal norms at the local level within selected Arab states by looking at how international law has been used as a political resource for competing interests
Publications
- 2011 ‘Transforming (Private) Rights through (Public) International Law: Readings on a ‘strange and painful Odyssey’ in the PCIJ Mavrommatis Case’ (forthcoming) 24 Leiden Journal of International Law
- 2011; ‘Mandated Sovereignty? The Role of International Law in the Construction of Arab Statehood during and after Empire’, S Cummings & R Hinnebusch (eds), Sovereignty after Empire: Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press), at 104-126
- 2009; "A Discourse of Distinction? Palestinians, International Law and the Promise of Humanitarianism" 15 Palestine Yearbook of International Law 41-68
- 2009; M Burgis, Boundaries of Discourse in the International Court of Justice: Mapping Arguments in Arab Territorial Disputes (Leiden: Brill, 2009) More info
- 2009; "Faith in the State? Traditions of Territoriality and the Emergence of Modern Arab Statehood"; Journal of the History of International Law; 11
- 2008; "Discourses of Division: Law, Politics, and the ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory"; Chinese Journal of International Law; 7:33-63
- 2008; "The Promise of Solid Ground: Arab States, Territorial Disputes and the Discourse of International Law"; The International Community Law Review; 10(1):73-99
- 2007; "Judicial Reform and the Possibility of Democratic Rule in Jordan? A Policy Perspective on Judicial Independence"; Arab Law Quarterly; 21(2):135 -170
- 2005; ‘(De)limiting the Past for Future Gain: The Relationship between Sovereignty, Colonialism and Oil in the Qatar v Bahrain Territorial Dispute’ Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law 557-586
