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Ata Hindi

Assistant Professor of Law

Education

J.D., Emory University School of Law, 2020

LL.M., Leiden University, 2013

M.S., Rutgers University, 2008

B.A., Rutgers University, 2006

A.A., Union County College, 2004

Departments

  • College of Law
  • Law

Bio

Ata Hindi joins Loyola University New Orleans College of Law from Tulane University School of Law where he was a Murphy Institute Visiting Assistant Professor and, before that, from the Institute of Law at Birzeit University in Palestine. His research and scholarly interests are in the field of international law with a focus on human rights, humanitarian law, criminal law, and international organizations.

Ata earned his BA in Political Science and a Masters of Science in Global Affairs from Rutgers University-Newark, an Advanced LLM in Public International Law from Leiden University, and a JD from Emory University School of Law.

Publications

Managing Expectations: Palestine and the International Criminal Court’s Office of the Prosecutor [job talk; forthcoming, UCLA LAW REVIEW].

A “Global South/Third World” Perspective on International Law Teaching, in TEACHING INTERNATIONAL LAW: REFLECTIONS ON PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE IN CONTEXT 42-62 (Jean-Pierre Gauci & Barrie Sander eds., 2024).

Unlawful Occupation: Assessing the Legality/Illegality of Occupations, Including for Serious Breaches of Peremptory Norms, 4 THIRD WORLD APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW 1-35 (2023).

Can We (or Must We) Delete Paragraph 6? Blanket Immunities and United Nations Security Council Referrals to the International Criminal Court, 4 RUTGERS JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS 37-82 (2023).

Membership in an Exclusive Club: International Humanitarian Law Rules as Peremptory Norms of International Law, 19 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY-CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW 127-155 (2023).

The “Visible” and “Invisible” College of Legal Advisers, Vol. XXII PALESTINE YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 217-232 (2019-2020). This essay reviews THE ROLE OF LEGAL ADVISERS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (Andraž Zidar & Jean-Pierre Gauci eds., 2016).

The Palestine Yearbook of International Law: A Medium for a Principled International Law on Palestine and the Palestinian People, Special 50th Anniversary Volume, NETHERLANDS YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 253-264 (2019).