The 1917 Redux—The Occupation of Palestine

Although the history of both British rule of Palestine and many of its legal aspects have been thoroughly researched, no study to date has examined the international law dimensions of British acquisition of military control and legal authority over Palestine in WWI. The legal pre-history of the British mandate—both the application of the rules governing occupied territories and their termination with the approval of the Palestine Mandate by the League of Nations Council in 1922—would however have lasting effect on the international legal framing of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its violence. This pilot project aims at developing the (archival) knowledge base required for the study of this very pre-history