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‘Eating Popcorn like a Lawyer’ 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’anan Alexandrowicz’ gripping documentary the ‘’ (winner of ‘best documentary’ at the 2011 Jerusalem Film Festival), which critically examines the creation and expansion of Israel’s 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 7^th attacks and Israel’s war on Gaza, we will be joined by (Université du Québec en Outaouais). Prof. Marquis Bissonnette is a specialist of international law and terrorism and is the author of the recently published book ‘Le terme terrorisme et ses incidences sur la protection des personnes en droit international’(Larcier-Intersentia 2024).

Open to all. Come as you are.

The Law and Film Team

Edward van Daalen (³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ Faculty of Law)

edward.vandaalen [at] mcgill.ca