Victor Kattan

Institution: School of Law, University of Nottingham

Period of stay: October 2026 - June 2027

Contact: 

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/law/people/victor.kattan

Profile: 

Dr. Victor Kattan is Assistant Professor in Public International Law at the University of Nottingham School of Law where he is the co-director of the Nottingham International Law and Security Centre. From 2026-2027, he is a Smuts Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge where he is completing his Oxford University Press monograph on apartheid as a crime against humanity. His previous works include: From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1891-1949 (Pluto Press, 2009); Making Endless War: The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law (Michigan University Press, 2023, with Brian Cuddy); and The Breakup of India and Palestine: The Causes and Legacies of Partition (Manchester University Press, 2023, with Amit Ranjan).

Research Area:

International criminal law, histories of empire

Research Title:

Apartheid as a Crime against Humanity

Research Outline:

Apartheid as a Crime against Humanity is the title of a monograph I have under contract with Oxford University Press. The research for the monograph considers the historical development of the definition of the crime of apartheid in the Apartheid Convention and the ICC Statute. Not since John Dugard’s Human Rights and the South African Legal Order, published by Princeton University Press in 1978, has any scholar attempted to write a monograph on the law of apartheid or how it came to be defined as a crime against humanity that is applicable globally. The focus on apartheid as a crime against humanity will therefore break new ground by making a distinctive and original contribution to the law and history of apartheid.

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