Eating Popcorn like a Lawyer: Featuring Prof. Camille Marquis Bissonnette
âEating Popcorn like a Lawyerâ 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 Raâanan Alexandrowiczâ gripping documentary the ââ (winner of âbest documentaryâ at the 2011 Jerusalem Film Festival), which critically examines the creation and expansion of Israelâs 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 Israelâs war on Gaza, we will be joined by (UniversitĂ© du QuĂ©bec en Outaouais). Prof. Marquis Bissonnette is a specialist of international law and terrorism and is the author of the recently published book âLe terme terrorisme et ses incidences sur la protection des personnes en droit internationalâ(Larcier-Intersentia 2024).
Open to all. Come as you are.
The Law and Film Team
Edward van Daalen (șĂÉ«TVl Faculty of Law)
edward.vandaalen [at] mcgill.ca
