Guy Serle Goodwin-Gill (born 25 December 1946) is a barrister and a professor of public international law at

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and a Fellow of

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. His research areas include international organisations, human rights, migrants and refugees, elections and democratisation and children’s rights; he teaches Human Rights and International Law. He currently serves as the Acting Director of the Andrew and Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at the

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The Palestine Question

Goodwin-Gill became noted for his contributions to the debate around international law and the Palestine question. He served as part of the advisory team which presented the Palestinian point of view with regards to the Israeli "Separation Wall" or "Separation Fence" on the Palestinian West Bank, which culminated in a 2004 ruling by the UN-affiliated International Court of Justice that the barrier was illegal. He later used his work on this case as part of a BDS-led push to have Israel's bid for membership to the

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rejected, but Israel membership was granted in 2010. In 2011, Goodwin-Gill wrote a legal opinion which recommended that the

Palestinian National Authority The Palestinian National Authority (PA or PNA; ar, السلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية '), commonly known as the Palestinian Authority and officially the State of Palestine,

not seek recognition of Palestine as a member state of the

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on the grounds that such a move would deprive the considerable

Palestinian diaspora The Palestinian diaspora ( ar, الشتات الفلسطيني, ''al-shatat al-filastini''), part of the wider Arab diaspora, are Palestinian people living outside the region of Palestine. History Palestinian individuals have a long history of ...

of legal representation within the putative state.

Lectures

''Migrants' Rights''
in th

* ttp://legal.un.org/avl/faculty/Goodwin-Gill.html ''International Migration Law - A General Introduction''in th
Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

in the ttp://legal.un.org/avl/lectureseries.html Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
''Expulsion in Public International Law''
in th

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Goodwin-Gill, Guy Members of the Inner Temple Living people Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford 1946 births Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford People educated at Mill Hill School Carleton University faculty University of New South Wales faculty

The Palestine Question

Lectures

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