[3] His previous posts include visiting positions at Birzeit University (Palestine) and the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague Netherlands).
[4] One of the themes in the research undertaken by John Strawson is the encounter between western and Islamic law.
[5] He is Director of Law Postgraduate Programmes at the University of East London, and Director of the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict.
[6] According to Strawson, writing in 2006, the use of the term apartheid to describe Israel or Israeli policies has become commonplace in certain liberal and leftist circles.
Strawson wrote that this label does not apply to Israel, and suggests that the use of the apartheid analogy is casual, unhistorical, and unhelpful.