Victor Kattan, a post-doctoral fellow at the Law Faculty of the National University of Singapore, spoke about the course of the Middle East peace process over the last 25 years, and the implications that Palestine’s decision to join the International Criminal Court might have on that process by drawing on political biography, international law, and his own experiences of working in Jerusalem and in the occupied Palestinian territories.

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Victor Kattan is Assistant Professor in Public International Law at the University of Nottingham School of Law and deputy director of the Nottingham International Law and Security Centre. He is the author of From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1891–1949 (Pluto Press, 2009) and has co-edited volumes including Making Endless War: The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law (Michigan University Press, 2023). His scholarship has been cited by the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and judges of the International Court of Justice. He holds a PhD in international law from SOAS and previously served as legal adviser to the Palestinian Negotiations Affairs Department in Ramallah and as a Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute.

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Thursday, Jan 15, 2015
2015-01-15