Eating Popcorn like a Lawyer: Featuring Prof. Camille Marquis Bissonnette
鈥楨ating Popcorn like a Lawyer鈥� is a Law and Film seminar series that seeks to establish a continuous dialogue between the two fields.
For our special event this fall term, we will screen and discuss Ra鈥檃nan Alexandrowicz鈥� gripping documentary the 鈥樷�� (winner of 鈥榖est documentary鈥� at the 2011 Jerusalem Film Festival), which critically examines the creation and expansion of Israel鈥檚 military Law of Occupation for the Palestinian territories. Revolving around tense interviews with some of the architects and custodians of this legal framework (judges, prosecutors and legal advisors), the film is a damning indictment of an unjust and violent system imposed on a people who had no say in making it.
To discuss the film in the light of the October 7th attacks and Israel鈥檚 war on Gaza, we will be joined by (Universit茅 du Qu茅bec en Outaouais). Prof. Marquis Bissonnette is a specialist of international law and terrorism and is the author of the recently published book 鈥楲e terme terrorisme et ses incidences sur la protection des personnes en droit international鈥�(Larcier-Intersentia 2024).
Open to all. Come as you are.
The Law and Film Team
Edward van Daalen (不良研究所 Faculty of Law)
edward.vandaalen [at] mcgill.ca
