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The United Kingdom's views on elections to the International Court of Justice during the Cold War (2021)
Journal Article
Kattan, V. (2021). The United Kingdom's views on elections to the International Court of Justice during the Cold War. Melbourne Journal of International Law, 21(3), 789-811

This article considers the process of nominating and electing candidates to the International Court of Justice ('ICJ') during the Cold War by focusing on a specific national encounter: the views of the United Kingdom government during elections to th... Read More about The United Kingdom's views on elections to the International Court of Justice during the Cold War.

The persistence of partition: Boundary-making, imperialism, and international law (2021)
Journal Article
Kattan, V. (2022). The persistence of partition: Boundary-making, imperialism, and international law. Political Geography, 94, Article 102557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102557

This article implores political geographers to engage with the sub-discipline's imperial roots in which international law was foundational. It does so by revisiting the practice of partition – defined here as an imposed boundary – which remains centr... Read More about The persistence of partition: Boundary-making, imperialism, and international law.

The Special Role of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in the Muslim Holy Shrines in Jerusalem (2020)
Journal Article
Kattan, V. (2021). The Special Role of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in the Muslim Holy Shrines in Jerusalem. Arab Law Quarterly, 35(5), 503-548. https://doi.org/10.1163/15730255-bja10031

This article explores the meaning of the Jerusalem clause in Article 9(2) of the Israel- Jordan Peace Treaty. It begins by considering the drafting of the clause, before analysing subsequent agreements between Israel, Palestine, and Jordan. The artic... Read More about The Special Role of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in the Muslim Holy Shrines in Jerusalem.

Furthering the ‘war on terrorism’ through international law: how the United States and the United Kingdom resurrected the Bush doctrine on using preventive military force to combat terrorism (2017)
Journal Article
Kattan, V. (2018). Furthering the ‘war on terrorism’ through international law: how the United States and the United Kingdom resurrected the Bush doctrine on using preventive military force to combat terrorism. Journal on the Use of Force and International Law, 5(1), 97-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/20531702.2017.1376929

Self-Determination during the Cold War: UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (1960), the Prohibition of Partition, and the Establishment of the British Indian Ocean Territory (1965) (2016)
Journal Article
Kattan, V. (2016). Self-Determination during the Cold War: UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (1960), the Prohibition of Partition, and the Establishment of the British Indian Ocean Territory (1965). Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law Online, 19(1), 419-468. https://doi.org/10.1163/18757413-00190015

This article uses the history of partition to assess when self-determination became a rule of customary international law prohibiting partition as a method of decolonization. In so doing it revisits the partitions of Indochina, Korea, India, Palestin... Read More about Self-Determination during the Cold War: UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (1960), the Prohibition of Partition, and the Establishment of the British Indian Ocean Territory (1965).