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Mais A.M. Qandeel

Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences

Email: bWFpcy5xYW5kZWVsO29ydS5zZQ==

Phone: +46 19 303719

Room: L2404

Research subject

Legal Science

Research environments

LDA - Law, Digitalisation and AI

About Mais A.M. Qandeel

Dr. Qandeel is Associate Professor (Docent) of International Law / Law and Technologies and a licensed lawyer with more than 15 years of experience at national and international organizations/institutions in, among others, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, USA and Palestine. She has extensive experience in international humanitarian law and the question of Palestine.

She holds an LLM of international law from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and a Ph.D. of international humanitarian law ( with a focus on Palestine) from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. She is the author of, among others, Enforcing Human Rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Territory, Violence and State Attribution: The Case of Palestine, and The Palestinian Environment under Military Occupation: International Humanitarian Law Perspective.

Her research has three themes: i) the question of Palestine under Occupation, ii) implications of new technologies on human rights – human rights in cyberspace in connection with cyber norms and cybersecurity - and the rule of law, and iii) the protection of the environment in international law.

She teaches the courses: i) Legal Tech, AI and Automation, ii) Cybersecurity and Cybercrime and iii) Comparative Law. Her courses cover a broad range of topics, including digital discrimination, the rule of law, data protection and privacy, international cyber norms and legal aspects of cybersecurity. She also teaches legal writing, international human rights law and international humanitarian law (the law of armed conflict) in other courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Active projects

Research groups

Publications

Articles in journals

Qandeel, M. (2024). Digital Rights in Palestine: Prospects of a Constitutional Judicial Review. Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Online, 1-36. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. (2024). Facial recognition technology: regulations, rights and the rule of law. Frontiers in Big Data, 7. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. (2024). The protection of the natural environment in armed conflicts and agent-based modelling. International Review of the Red Cross, 106 (925), 450-468. [BibTeX]
Lindholm, H. , Cristiano, F. & Qandeel, M. (2024). The Visual Narrative of Conflict in Cyberspace: (Un-)Seeing as Control and Resistance in Palestine. Journal of Palestine Studies. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. (2024). Unacceptable-Risk Technologies: Regulations, Rights and the Rule of Law. Frontiers in Big Data, 7. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. (2024). Understanding Constitutional Principles for the Advancement of Digital Rights in Palestine. Middle East Law and Governance, 16 (3), 400-429. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. (2023). Violence and State Attribution: The Case of Occupied Palestine. Journal of Palestine Studies, 52 (2), 43-63. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. & Sommer, J. (2022). Syria Conflict and its Impact: a Legal and Environmental Perspective. International Journal of Humanitarian Legal Studies, 13 (2), 275-296. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. & Progin-Theuerkauf, S. (2021). Legal Implications of Dismantling UNRWA: A European Perspective. Journal of Politics and Law, 14 (3), 84-102. [BibTeX]
Hargrove, A. , Qandeel, M. & Sommer, J. M. (2019). Global governance for climate justice: A cross-national analysis of CO2 emissions. Global Transitions, 1, 190-199. [BibTeX]

Articles, book reviews

Qandeel, M. (2020). Book Review: The ABC of the OPT: A Legal Lexicon of the Israeli Control over the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Journal of Palestine Studies, 49 (4), 152-154. [BibTeX]

Articles, reviews/surveys

Qandeel, M. (2025). Territorial Annexation of Palestine: Illegality, Third States Obligations and the ICJ’s 2024 Advisory Opinion. EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. (2024). Communication Blackouts: Israeli Cyberattacks Against Civilians in Gaza. Opinio Juris (blog). [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. (2024). Israeli Digital Oppression and Cyber Surveillance in Palestine. Surveillance & Society. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. (2023). The Forcible Transfer of Civilians in Gaza: Conditions, Necessity and Legality. Opinio Juris (blog). [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. (2023). The Obligation to Ensure Respect: A Role for All States to Play in Palestine. EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law. [BibTeX]

Books

Qandeel, M. (2018). Enforcing Human Rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Territory (1ed.). Berlin, Bern, Germany: Carl Grossmann Verlag (sui generis 4). [BibTeX]

Chapters in books

Qandeel, M. (2025). The Palestinian Environment under Israeli Military Occupation: An International Humanitarian Law Perspective. In: Riccardo Bocco; Ibrahim Saïd, De/Colonising Palestine: Contemporary Debates (pp. 201-238). Genève: Graduate Institute Publications. [BibTeX]
Sunesson, A. & Qandeel, M. (2024). Automated Administrative Decisions and the Principle of Legality. In: Rigmor Argren, Rule of Law in a Transitional Spectrum (pp. 389-403). Uppsala: Iustus förlag. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. (2024). Blockchain Technology: A Matter of Legal Certainty. In: Rigmor Argren, Rule of Law in a Transitional Spectrum (pp. 353-368). Uppsala: Iustus förlag. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. (2023). Blockchain Application in Information Ecosystems: The Right to Privacy in Cyberspace. In: Magnus Kristoffersson, Proceedings from the First Annual International FIRE CONFERENCE 10th–11th of November 2022, Örebro University, Sweden (pp. 177-192). Uppsala: Iustus förlag. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. (2023). De Facto Discrimination. In: Rainer Grote; Frauke Lachenmann; Rüdiger Wolfrum, Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (pp. 175-. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. & Kristoffersson, E. (2021). Introduction: Evolving Sustainable Development and the Swedish Approach. In: Eleonor Kristoffersson; Mais Qandeel, Law and Sustainable Development: Swedish Perspectives (pp. 11-18). Uppsala: Iustus förlag. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. (2021). Legal Considerations of Corporate Responsibility for Sustainability: A Just Business. In: Eleonor Kristoffersson; Mais Qandeel, Law and Sustainable Development: Swedish Perspectives (pp. 21-51). Uppsala: Iustus förlag. [BibTeX]

Collections (editor)

Qandeel, M. (ed.) & Kristoffersson, E. (ed.) (2021). Law and Sustainable Development: Swedish Perspectives. Uppsala: Iustus förlag. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. (ed.) (2021). The Pre-emption Right in Palestine: A Comparative Study of Land Laws. Jordan / Palestine: Jordan Publishing Limited. [BibTeX]

Conference papers

Qandeel, M. (2025). Cyber Surveillance and Data Violence in Palestine: Protection, Practice, and Legality. Paper presented at 18th international conference CPDP.ai: Computers, Privacy and Data Protection, Brussels, Belgium, May 21-23, 2025. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. , Cristiano, F. , AbuArqoub, O. & Topak, Ö. (2025). Digital oppression and cyber surveillance in Palestine. Paper presented at 13th edition of RightsCon, Taipei, Taiwan (and online), February 24-27, 2025. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. (2025). Mass Surveillance and Datafication of People in Occupied Territory: Limitations and Obligations. Paper presented at TLCP Symposium: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and International Humanitarian Law, University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa, USA & online, April 4, 2025. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. & Mjörnander, R. (2024). Blockchain Technology for Sustainability in Supply Chains: A Legal Assessment. Paper presented at 15th Conference of the International Association for Research in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (AIRL-SCM 2024), La Rochelle, France, May 29-31, 2024. France: [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. (2024). Digital Oppression and Cyber Surveillance in Palestine. Paper presented at 10th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network / Surveillance & Society Conference (#SSN2024): Surveillance in an Age of Crisis, Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 28-31, 2024. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. (2024). Litigating environmental damage: How can international and domestic law help prosecute the perpetrators of environmental crimes in times of conflict?. Paper presented at Second Annual Conference on Conflict, Climate Change and the Environment in the Middle East and North Africa Region, Amman, Jordan, March 5-6, 2024. [BibTeX]
Cristiano, F. & Qandeel, M. (2024). Rethinking Internet Access and Digital Rights After Gaza: From Infrastructural Harm to Data Violence. Paper presented at Boğaziçi University International Law Conference, Rethinking International Law After Gaza, Istanbul, Turkey, August 3-4, 2024. [BibTeX]
Duaibes, L. , Jaber, A. , Jarrar, M. , Qadi, A. & Qandeel, M. (2024). Sina at FigNews 2024: Multilingual Datasets Annotated with Bias and Propaganda. Paper presented at 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Bangkok, Thailand, August 11–16, 2024. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. (2024). Territorial Annexation of Palestine and International Law. In: The Israel-Palestine Conflict Recent developments at the ICJ. Paper presented at The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Recent developments at the International Court of Justice, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, May 15, 2024. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. & Cristiano, F. (2023). Human Rights Governance in Cyberspace. In: Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) Conference 2023 Leiden University, The Hague Campus, The Netherlands, 7-9 June 2023. Paper presented at Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) Conference 2023, Leiden University, The Hague Campus, The Netherlands, June 7-9, 2023. [BibTeX]
Qandeel, M. (2023). Human Rights in the Cyberspace: Jurisdiction and Extraterritoriality. In: European Human Rights Law Conference 2023. Paper presented at European Human Rights Law Conference, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, September 28-29, 2023. [BibTeX]

Other

Qandeel, M. (2024). Surveillance and Oppression. Brussles [BibTeX]