ABSTRACT
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is, famously, a dispute about land, but it is no less fundamentally a dispute about law – about whether international legal norms are relevant and responsive to the issues in contention, about what the norms mean, what they require, and what they allow. These questions have proven particularly difficult to resolve with respect to issues of security, due in part to the challenge of defining “security” either as a topic for negotiation or as a bundle of legal rights and obligations.
