Victor Kattan is a post-doctoral fellow at the law faculty of the National University of Singapore and a policy advisor to Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network. He was previously a legal adviser to the Palestinian Negotiations Support Project in Ramallah on secondment from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Jerusalem. He is the author of From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1891-1949 1891-1949 (Pluto Press, 2009) and is the editor of The Palestine Question in International Law (British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2008)