Victor KATTAN

Dr Victor Kattan is Assistant Professor in Public International Law at the University of Nottingham School of Law, and a former legal adviser to the Palestinian Negotiations Affairs Department in Ramallah. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Asian Journal of International Law and is Area Editor for the Middle East and Islam for Oxford Bibliographies of International Law. Dr. Kattan's publications include an edited book, Making Endless War: The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law (Michigan University Press, 2023, with Brian Cuddy). His also the editor of The Breakup of India and Palestine: The Causes and Legacies of Partition (Manchester University Press, 2023, with Amit Ranjan). His other publications include From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1891-1949 (Pluto Press 2009) and The Palestine Question in International Law (British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2008). Dr Kattan's scholarship has been cited by the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), states and international organisations in advisory proceedings before the ICJ, Special Rapporteurs to the UN Human Rights Council, and leading academics. Victor is an associate member of Temple Garden Chambers in London.