Victor Kattan
Victor Kattan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute and an Associate Fellow at the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he teaches a course on the use of force in international law. Previously, Victor was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law at NUS (2013-2015). Before Victor moved to Singapore, he was a legal adviser to the Government of Palestine in Ramallah on secondment from the United Nations Development Program in Jerusalem.
Victor Kattan is Assistant Professor in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 18911949, and the co-editor ofMaking Endless War: The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law,The Breakup of India and Palestine: The Causes and Legacies of Partition, and Violent Radical Movements in the Arab World: The Ideology and Politics of Non-State Actors.
Recent articles by Victor Kattan
7 August 2023
There is no legal impediment to Australias recognition of Palestine
At the Australian Labor Partys upcomingnational conference in Brisbane, recognition of a Palestinian state pursuant to Labors 2021 national platform that supports the recognition of Israel and Palestine as part of a two-state solution is on the agenda. Senior Labor party figures, including former Foreign MinistersBob CarrandGareth Evans, have already come out in support of recognition. They have made cogent moral and political cases for recognising Palestine but have not addressed the legal arguments in as much depth.