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"Rethinking International Law After Gaza" Book of Proceedings presents contributions delivered at the first International Law Conference (BILC 2024) organized by the Boğaziçi University Faculty of Law. Held in Istanbul, the conference set out to critically reassess the role and limits of international law in the face of contemporary crises. At a time when the genocide in Gaza continued to be met with silence, the conference emerged as an attempt to break this silence, rendering unavoidable a renewed interrogation of international law’s claims to universality, legitimacy, and justice.

The chapters collected in this volume examine the colonial legacies, structural inequalities, and normative contradictions embedded within the international legal order from a range of perspectives. Spanning debates on decolonisation, the relationship between law, war, and violence, these contributions engage with ongoing discussions on the future of the discipline. The volume aims to provide a critical perspective on the existing international legal order while contributing to broader scholarly debates. The Book of Proceedings is fully available below in open access.