Maayan Geva is Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Roehampton, UK. She completed her PhD in Politics and International Studies at the Open University and has worked as a researcher for B'tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Maayan was selected as the runner up for the 2016 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize from the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies

Makes a contribution to a timely and topical issue: the debate surrounding the legality of Israel's occupation of Palestine

Combines legal and political sciences discourses to build a strong argument about the use of international law

Draws upon original interview materials with key figures in the Israeli military establishment

Preface.- 1. Introduction: Israel's Management of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and International Humanitarian Law.-Chapter 2: Conceptual Framework and Research Methods for the Israeli Legal Field in the OPT.- Chapter 3: A Map of the Israeli Legal Field Operating in the OPT: Structuring law, structuring power.- Chapter 4: Military Lawyers Making Law: The contextual transformations of the MAG Corps' legal practice and the constitution of law.- Chapter 5: The International Law Department at war in Gaza.- Conclusion: Lawfare: Law's Contemporary State.- Bibliography.- Appendices.- Index.