Malcolm Shaw’s recent Opinion on Palestine’s statehood and recognition

Earlier I have commented on the UK Government’s intention to recognise Palestine if certain conditions (do not) materialise. Issues I have touched upon have later been discussed in Professor Malcolm Shaw’s opinion on Palestine, in which he concludes that UK’s recognition of Palestine would contradict international law. In this post, I intend to discuss Shaw’s principal arguments and evidence alluded to in support of these arguments.

• Read the full article on the Birmingham Law School Research and Scholarship Blog

Professor Orakhelashvili was also recently cited in the Greek newspaper Tovima in a piece on the UK plan to back Palestinian statehood.