LEGAL PETITION AUTHORS
Our 400-page legal petition was prepared by leading human rights lawyers Ben Emmerson KC and Danny Friedman KC, together with regional experts Victor Kattan, John Quigley and Avi Shlaim. Read their full biographies below.
Ben Emmerson KC is a barrister specialising in European human rights law, public international law and international criminal law. He was the UN Special Rapporteur on Counter Terrorism and Human Rights from 2011 to 2017. He has over 30 years of experience litigating before international courts and tribunals including the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He is also a deputy High Court Judge, a Master of the Bench of Middle Temple and an Honorary Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford.
Ben Emmerson KC
Victor Kattan is Assistant Professor in Public International Law at the University of Nottingham School of Law where he is the deputy director of the Nottingham International Law and Security Centre. Victor's publications include: The Palestine Question in International Law (British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2008); From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1891-1949 (Pluto Press, 2009); Violent Radical Movements in the Arab World: The Ideology and Politics of NonState Actors (Bloomsbury, 2019, with Peter Sluglett); 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).
Victor Kattan
Avi Shlaim, FBA is an Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include Collusion across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine (Columbia University Press, 1988); War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History (Penguin, 1995); The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (Penguin, 2000, updated edition 2014); Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace (Penguin, 2007); Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations (Verso, 2009); Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab-Jew (Oneworld Publications, 2023); Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine (The Irish Pages Press, 2024); and (as editor and contributor) Deluge: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm (OR Books, 2024).
Avi Shlaim
Danny Friedman KC is a barrister specialising at the interface between crime, civil liability, human rights and public law, with additional focus on public international law. He advises private individuals, NGOs and companies, as well as UK and foreign state organisations seeking to comply with human rights and humanitarian law obligations. His public sector investigatory and advice work includes the operation of the rule of law in a number of foreign states, including in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
Danny Friedman KC
John B. Quigley is Professor Emeritus, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, USA, where his specialty is public international law. He has served as legal expert in various fora on issues relating to the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is author of numerous works in that field, including three books on the legal history of Palestine: Britain and Its Mandate Over Palestine: Legal Chicanery on a World Stage (Anthem Press, 2022); The Legality of a Jewish State: A Century of Debate over Rights in Palestine (Cambridge University Press, 2022); and The International Diplomacy of Israel’s Founders: Deception at the United Nations in the Quest for Palestine (Cambridge University Press, 2016).