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BiographyVictor is a Teaching Fellow at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He has an LL.B (Hons.) from Brunel University, an LL.M from Leiden University and is studying towards a PhD at SOAS on the evolution of partition in public international law for which he was awarded a scholarship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Victor was a Research Fellow in Public International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law on their Human Rights in International Law and Iran project from 2006-8. Prior to this, he was a Director with the London based media watchdog Arab Media Watch where he maintains a link as an adviser. In 2003-4, Victor worked in the Occupied Palestinian Territories as a U.N. Development Programme TOKTEN consultant on secondment to the BADIL Resource Center, a non-governmental organisation specialising in Palestinian refugee rights. Victor is the author of more than half a dozen scholarly articles on the Arab-Israeli conflict in international law journals. His book From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict was published in June 2009 by Pluto Books. Victor also compiled an edited collection of legal articles in The Palestine Question in International Law, which was published by The British Institute of International and Comparative Law in May 2008. Victor has given talks at the following institutions about his book From Coexistence and related aspects pertaining to the Arab-Israeli conflict and international law: The Arab Thought Forum, The American University, Boston University, Brunel University, Cambridge University, Cardiff University, University of Chicago, Columbia University, DePaul University, Dubai School of Government, Emory University, Fordham University, University of Georgetown, Goldsmiths, Harvard University, Imperial, King Feisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies, Manchester University, MIT, NYU, Princeton University, SOAS, Southampton University, University of Surrey, St Andrews, Tufts University, and Yale. You can see his talk at MIT here. Victor was the assistant editor of the Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law from 2005-8, a position from which he resigned in order to have more time to research, write and promote his book, and complete his doctorate.
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