Professor Neve GordonProfessor of International Law and Human RightsEmail: neve.gordon@qmul.ac.ukRoom Number: Mile EndWebsite: https://twitter.com/nevegordonProfileResearchPublicationsSupervisionPublic EngagementProfileNeve Gordon is a professor of human rights law at Queen Mary University of London and the Vice President of the British Society for Middle East Studies. His first book, Israel’s Occupation , provided a structural history of Israel’s mechanisms of control in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. His second book, The Human Right to Dominate was written with Nicola Perugini and examines how human rights, which are generally conceived as tools for advancing emancipation, can also be used to enhance subjugation and dispossession. Most recently, he wrote with Perugini the first book on the legal and political history of human shielding. Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire follows the marginal and controversial figure of the human shield over a period of 150 years in order to interrogate the laws of war and how the ethics of humane violence is produced. Gordon has also edited two volumes, one on torture (with Ruchama Marton) and the other on marginalized perspectives on human rights. Gordon has been a member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, Brown University, the University of Michigan, and SOAS, and is currently a board member of the International State Crime Initiative. He writes regularly for the popular press and his articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Los Angles Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Al Jazeera, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The London Review of Books. A collage of book covers written by Neve Gordon ResearchProfessor Gordon’s current research focuses on the history and politics of human shielding. He is examining in the role of international law in producing an ethics of violence and how the production of new legal subjects such as human shields, unlawful combatants, and enemies killed in action facilitate the construction of an ethics that is conducive to specific actors. He is also interested in the politics of human rights, how human rights are interpreted and appropriated in different contexts and towards what ends. Work in progress Professor Gordon is in the process of writing a book on the history of human shielding. Simultaneously, he is working on an article about international law and virtual war games, and another article on the bombing of hospitals during conflicts in the Middle East.Examples of research funding:Professor Gordon was a Marie Curie Fellow.PublicationsBooks Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon, The Human Right to Dominate, Oxford University Press. 2015 (equal contribution). Italian translation: Il diritto umano di dominare, Roma, Nottetempo, 2016. Arabic translation: Doha Institute, (forthcoming 2017) Neve Gordon, Israel’s Occupation, University of California Press, 2008. Article in refereed journals Yinon Cohen and Neve Gordon, “Israel’s Bio-Spatial Politics: Territory, Demography and Effective Control,” Public Culture, forthcoming 2018. (equal contribution). Michal Rotem and Neve Gordon, “Bedouin Ṣumūd and the Struggle for Education,” Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. XLVI, No. 4 Summer 2017, 7-27. Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon, “Distinction and the Ethics of Violence: On the Legal Construction of Liminal Subjects and Spaces,” Antipode Vol. 49 No. 5 2017 ISSN 0066-4812, pp. 1385-1405 (equal contribution). Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon, “Introduction to Symposium on Critical Perspectives on Human Shields,” American Journal of International Law, Unbound, Vol. 110, 2017, 296-298. Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini, “Human Shields, Sovereign Power and the Evisceration of the Civilian,” American Journal of International Law, Unbound, Vol. 110, 2017, 329-334. Neve Gordon, “Palestinian Resistance and the Fallacy of Destituent Power,” Political Geography, Vol. 56, 2017, 100-103. Nitza Berkovitch and Neve Gordon, “Differentiated Decoupling and Human Rights,” Social Problems, Vol. 63, Issue 4, 2016, 499-512 (equal contribution). Neve Gordon and Moriel Ram, “Ethnic cleansing and the formation of colonial geographies," Political Geography, Vol. 53, 2016: 20-29 (equal contribution). Reprinted in Arabic التطهير الإثني وتشكيل أنماط جغرافيا الاستعمار الاستيطاني in Israel Affairs Journal, Vol. 62, 2016: 62-93. Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini, “The Politics of Human Shielding: On the Resignification of Space and the Constitutions of Civilians as Shields in Liberal Wars.” Environment and Planning D, Society and Space, Vol. 34, Issue 1, 2016, 168-187 (equal contribution). Reprinted in Italian: Gordon, Neve, and Nicola Perugini. "Le Politiche degli Scudi Umani: Sulla Risignificazione dello Spazio e la Costituzione Dei Civili Come Scudi Nelle Guerre Liberali." Cartografie sociali. Rivista di sociologia e scienze umane Vol, 3 2017. Neve Gordon and Sharon Pardo, "Normative Power Europe Meets the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," Asia-Europe Journal, Vol. 13, Issue 3, 2015, 265-274 (equal contribution). Neve Gordon and Sharon Pardo, “The European Union and Israel’s Occupation: Using Technical Customs Rules as Instruments of Foreign Policy,” The Middle East Journal, Vol. 69, Winter 2015: 74-90 (equal contribution). Neve Gordon and Sharon Pardo, “Normative Power Europe and the Power of the Local,” JCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 53. No. 2. 2015: 416–427 (equal contribution). Neve Gordon, “Human Rights as a Security Threat: Lawfare and the Campaign Against Rights NGOs,” Law and Society Review. Vol. 48:2, 2014: 311-344. SupervisionNeve Gordon has supervised several students to completion and is now accepting new students working from a critical perspective on human rights, international humanitarian law, wars and conflicts, and Israel/Palestine. His students at Queen Mary include: Alicia De La Cour Venning ‘To what extent do Kachin Independence Army perceptions of international humanitarian norms conform with development of its policies and practice?’ Michal Rotem ‘Studying Liberal Law in a non-Liberal Country’. Public Engagement Security and Law Webinar: Human Shields - A History of People in the Line of Fire - organised by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) Gaza: Human Shields | Al Jazeera World (interview available on Youtube) UNRWA and Trump's attempt to erase the Palestinian people The fallacy of Israel's human shields claims in Gaza. Related newsIsrael has taken human shields to a whole new criminal level 24 October 2024 Is Hezbollah using civilians as human shields against Israel? What does the law say? 1 October 2024 Professor Neve Gordon Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences 18 September 2024 The ICC is right to pursue Benjamin Netanyahu 3 September 2024 UK new Labour government under pressure to shift Israel-Palestine policy 30 July 2024 Israel's Universities: The Crackdown 10 June 2024 ICC seeks arrest of Israel and Hamas leaders. What happens next? 24 May 2024 Will the US adopt IHRA’s anti-Semitism definition? What’s the controversy? 13 May 2024 Israeli mass surveillance in Gaza and the use of AI to kill Palestinians 19 April 2024 The Road to Famine in Gaza 5 April 2024 War on Gaza: Killing of Gaza’s academics amounts to ‘educide,’ say campaigners 5 February 2024 Building the Case for US Complicity 12 December 2023 On Human Shields 6 December 2023 What is a ‘human shield’ and why is Israel using the term in Gaza? 17 November 2023 Israel-Gaza: Genocidal rhetoric and the fog of war 25 October 2023 New report highlights major free speech issues in UK universities 2 October 2023 The problem with Israel’s so called 'crisis of democracy' 22 February 2023 Why we need to challenge Russia’s human shields narrative 4 April 2022 Professor Neve Gordon co-authors an article on the history of hospital bombing 18 March 2022 Professor Neve Gordon runner up for International Ethics Section Book Award 2022 25 January 2022 Why did Netanyahu vote against a law he wholly embraces? 22 July 2021 Was Einstein an Anti-Semite? 1 April 2021 Redefining anti-Semitism on Facebook 22 September 2020 Portland’s voluntary human shields bring a new kind of solidarity to America 3 August 2020 The acceleration of death precipitated by Covid-19 exposes state crime 24 April 2020 The Gaza Strip has been under siege for years, COVID-19 could be catastrophic 30 March 2020 The coronavirus conundrum and human rights 23 March 2020 To survive, we need intersectional solidarity 9 December 2019 Hospital bombings and the limits of international law 19 August 2019 It’s no wonder the military likes violent video games – they can help train civilians to become warriors 15 August 2019 Silencing pro-Palestine voices 9 July 2019 Britain’s Foreign Secretary under scrutiny for ‘lack of humanity’ towards Palestinians 8 May 2019 Neve Gordon asks: Who's Afraid of Jeremy Corbyn? 30 April 2019 Prof. Neve Gordon on Israel's cyperpower & dynamics in the Middle East 18 April 2019 Professor Neve Gordon discusses the banned documentary film on the 'anti-Semitism in Labour debate' for Al Jazeera 5 March 2019 Professor Neve Gordon co-authors a blog, discussing the Airbnb boycott in the West Bank 28 November 2018 Professor Neve Gordon co-writes a piece for The Conversation, discussing the 'migrant caravan' near the US border 19 November 2018 Professor Neve Gordon co-writes a piece about Israel's Human Shield for Al-Jazeera 19 June 2018