McGill Jewish Law Students Association Presents:
Dr. Ed Morgan
“The Metastasization of Lawfare: The Arab-Israel Conflict in the Courts”
Monday, November 8, 2010
6pm-730pm
Rm 312, New Chancellor Day Hall
Faculty of Law, McGill University
For More Info: jlsa.mcgill@gmail.com
Ed Morgan teaches international and constitutional law at the University of Toronto. Professor Morgan has appeared at all levels of Canadian courts, the American Court of Human Rights, and the Decolonization Committee of the United Nations. He also served as national legal counsel for Canadian Jewish Congress (1998-2001) and provided the expert opinion cited by the U.S. courts on the legal status of the Palestinian Authority in the leading case of Ungar v. P.A.
Professor Morgan will address recent developments in “lawfare” – the use of legal challenges to damage an opponent with which one is otherwise engaged in an armed struggle. Specifically, he explores anti-Israel legal actions that have spread out of their “home” territory of criminal indictments for alleged war crimes, to include subject matters as seemingly far afield as tax law, tariffs, and international trade sanctions. Professor Morgan will also explore the different ways in which legal decision makers and foreign relations actors address the identical politico-legal questions, concluding that on occasion the courts are, contrary to standard wisdom, the most dangerous branch.
