John Quigley

Biographic Data

ID1106873
NAMEJohn Quigley
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEQuigley
SIGNATUREQUIGLEY J
AFFILIATIONSThe Ohio State University
ORCID0000-0001-5623-8278
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT44
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • The Debate over British Reparations for Mandate-Era Governance of Palestine? Three views

    Open AccessJohn Quigley, John B QuigleyARTICLEThe Journal of Imperial &…2026References: 4

    As reparations are being demanded from more former colonial powers, Britain is in the crosshairs for Palestine, given the century-long conflict that has resulted. According to the view most commonly found in historical and legal literature, no reparation is required, because Britain acted in accordance with decisions made by the League of Nations. According to two more recently expressed views, reparation is in order. By the first of these, Brita…

  • Britain and the League of Nations: Was There Ever a Mandate for Palestine

    Open AccessJohn QuigleyARTICLEJournal of Palestine Studies2024

    Upon capturing Palestine in December 1917, Britain assumed the role of belligerent occupant, and therefore, it had no power to alter the legal order of the country, which it nonetheless did in 1920. In order to grant itself full power of governance over Palestine, Britain drew up the "Mandate for Palestine," a document in which it declared its aim of promoting a Jewish "national home" in Palestine. This article examines this and other documents f…

  • Britain’s failure to gain legal standing for the Balfour Declaration

    Open AccessJohn QuigleyARTICLECogent Arts and Humanities2023

    The document that Britain composed for its governance of Palestine (Mandate for Palestine) called for implementation of the Jewish national home mentioned in the Balfour Declaration. However, Britain’s governance of Palestine, purportedly under the mandate scheme of the League of Nations, never gained a lawful foundation. The League of Nations had no power under the League Covenant to attribute legal significance to the Mandate for Palestine, or …

  • Britain and Its Mandate over Palestine: Legal Chicanery on a World Stage

    John QuigleyBOOKBritain's Mandate in Palestine2022

  • The Legality of a Jewish State: A Century of Debate over Rights in Palestine

    Open AccessJohn QuigleyBOOKLegality of a Jewish State2021

    In The Legality of a Jewish State, the author traces the diplomatic history that led to the partition of Palestine in 1948 and the creation of Israel as a state. He argues that the fate of Palestine was not determined on the basis of principle, but by the failure of legality. In focusing on the lawyer-diplomats who pressed for and against a Jewish state at the United Nations, he offers an explanation of the effort in 1947-48 by Arab states at the…

  • Legality of a Jewish State: A Century of Debate over Rights in Palestine

    John QuigleyBOOKLegality of a Jewish State2021

  • Extraordinary Justice: Law, Politics, and the Khmer Rouge TribunalsCraig Etcheson

    Open AccessJohn QuigleyARTICLEHolocaust and Genocide Studies2021

    Extraordinary Justice is an inside account of the interaction among judges, investigators, and prosecutors who fashioned criminal charges against perpetrators of atrocities during the Khmer Rouge government in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. It deals not with the trials themselves, but the apparatus the United Nations and the next government of Cambodia set up to investigate suspects and decide whom to charge. Etcheson headed for a time the inves…

  • Raphael Lemkin and the Struggle for the Genocide ConventionJohn Cooper

    John Quigley, John B QuigleyARTICLEHolocaust and Genocide Studies2017

    This paper and electronic version updates a hardcover publication of 2008 on the life and work of Raphael Lemkin, a central figure in efforts to expose the atrocities committed in the name of the Third Reich, and in efforts at legal reform to prevent such atrocities in the future. During World War II, Lemkin wrote Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, a weighty tome that documented Nazi atrocities and introduced a term Lemkin devised—“genocide”—to descri…

  • Leon Trotsky and the Prohibition against Secret Treaties

    John QuigleyARTICLEJournal of the History of…2017References: 2

    A requirement was written into the Covenant of the League of Nations that treaties be communicated to the League for publication. This innovation is widely attributed to US President Woodrow Wilson, who drafted the language for the League Covenant on this issue. What is less remembered is that behind Wilson’s initiative lay an action by Leon Trotsky, Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the fledgling Soviet Russian government, who revealed treaties t…

  • The International Diplomacy of Israel's Founders: Deception at the United Nations in the Quest for Palestine

    Open AccessJohn M Quigley, John QuigleyBOOKInternational Diplomacy of…2016

    During the early to mid-twentieth century, the Zionist Organization secured a series of political victories on the international stage, leading to the foundation of a Jewish state and to its ability to expand its territorial control within Palestine. The International Diplomacy of Israel's Founders provides a revisionist account of the founding of Israel by exposing the misrepresentations and false assurances of Zionist diplomats during this form…

  • William Yale: Witness to Partition in the Middle East, WWI-WWII

    John QuigleyARTICLEBritish Journal of Middle Eastern…2016

    In William Yale: Witness to Partition in the Middle East, WWI-WWII, historian Janice Terry tells a tale that will fascinate anyone with even a passing interest in the Middle East. The tale begins i

  • Pre‐existing condition: Taking media coverage into account when preparing for H1N1

    Open AccessKevin Quigley, Colin Macdonald et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Administration2016Cited by: 1References: 35

    This article examines the claim that the media exaggerated the threat of H1N1, prompting an immediate demand for limited vaccine. We compare The Australian 's and the Daily Telegraph 's coverage of H1N1 with that of The Globe and Mail , which was comparatively critical of government performance. The events of October 2009 underscore the difficulty and importance of responding to media coverage of “uncertain risks” (Renn ), risks for which there i…

  • The Six-Day War and Israeli Self-Defense: Questioning the Legal Basis for Preventive War

    Open AccessJohn M Quigley, John Quigley et al.BOOKSix-Day War and Israeli…2012

    The war of June 1967 between Israel and Arab states was widely perceived as being forced on Israel to prevent the annihilation of its people by Arab armies hovering on its borders. Documents now declassified by key governments question this view. The UK, USSR, France and the USA all knew that the Arab states were not in attack mode and tried to dissuade Israel from attacking. In later years, this war was held up as a precedent allowing an attack …

  • Britain's Secret Re-Assessment of the Balfour Declaration. The Perfidy of Albion

    John QuigleyARTICLEJournal of the History of…2011

  • The Statehood of Palestine: International Law in the Middle East Conflict

    Open AccessJohn Quigley, John B QuigleyBOOKStatehood of Palestine2010

    Palestine as a territorial entity has experienced a curious history. Until World War I, Palestine was part of the sprawling Ottoman Empire. After the war, Palestine came under the administration of Great Britain by an arrangement with the League of Nations. In 1948 Israel established itself in part of Palestine's territory, and Egypt and Jordan assumed administration of the remainder. By 1967 Israel took control of the sectors administered by Egy…

  • Palestine Refugee Repatriation in the American Discourse

    John QuigleyARTICLECR The New Centennial Review2008

    Palestine Refugee Repatriation in the American Discourse John Quigley (bio) The most critical issue standing in the way of an Israeli-Palestinian peace is barely on the radar screen in the United States. The question of the Palestinians displaced from their homes in 1948 has been high on the international agenda ever since. It is seen on the one hand as a humanitarian issue–that the bulk of Palestine’s population was displaced beyond the borders …

  • S ecurity C ouncil R esolution 242 and the R ight of R epatriation

    John QuigleyARTICLEJournal of Palestine Studies2007Cited by: 1References: 2

    Israel takes the position that UN Security Council 242's call for a ““just settlement of the refugee problem”” does not require the repatriation of the Arabs displaced from Palestine in 1948. However, the background to the drafting of that phrase, reviewed in this article, suggests that this was in fact the intention of the resolution's drafters

  • The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective

    John QuigleyBOOKThe Case for Palestine2005

  • The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective

    John M Quigley, John QuigleyBOOKCase for Palestine2005

  • Bhutanese refugees in Nepal: What role now for the European union and the United Nations high commission for refugees

    John QuigleyARTICLEContemporary South Asia2004Cited by: 1

    Starting in 1990, through a mixture of coercion and fear, an estimated 80,000–85,000 ethnic Nepalese who had lived and worked in Bhutan for generations were obliged to leave the country. In an effort to resolve the fate of the refugees, the Bhutan and Nepal governments have held some fifteen ministerial‐level meetings that, to date, have produced limited results and no implementation. This research note outlines the recent response of the Europea…

  • Genocide in Cambodia: Documents from the Trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary

    Pol Pot, Howard J De Nike et al.BOOKGenocide in Cambodia2000

    The Khmer Rouge held power in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 and aggressively pursued a policy of radical social reform that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians through mass executions and physical privation. In January 1979, the government was overthrown by former Khmer Rouge functionaries, with substantial backing from the army of Vietnam. In August of that year a special court, the People's Revolutionary Tribunal, was con…

  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent

    John QuigleyREVIEWAmerican Journal of Legal History1999Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent Get access Morsink Johannes, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, xiv, 379 pp. $49.95. John Quigley John Quigley Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 43, Issue 3, July 19…

  • Legal View of Peace: From Occupation to Interim Accords: Israel and the Palestinian Territories. . Raja Shehadeh

    John QuigleyARTICLEJournal of Palestine Studies1998

  • Legal View of Peace

    John QuigleyARTICLEJournal of Palestine Studies1998

  • Dictated by Consensus

    John M Quigley, John QuigleyARTICLEJournal of Palestine Studies1996