Dr Loqman Radpey

Background
His main areas of research lie in all aspects of international law, with current particular emphasis on peoplehood, self-determination, secession, and statehood. Since 2012, he has studied and written extensively on Kurdistan and statehood, self-determination and the Kurds, the use of force in Rojava (Western Kurdistan), the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Rojava’s democratic confederalism, and the legal status of the Kurdish territories in international law. The ‘Social Contract’ (known as the constitution) of Rojava has been another main focus of his research.
Previously, Loqman was a lecturer in Kurdistan, where, between 2008 and 2017, he taught various courses on international law.
Loqman completed the PhD in Law at the University of Edinburgh in early 2022. His thesis offers a Middle Eastern perspective on the right of self-determination. Its distinctive historical innovation is the observation that the Kurds are poised between the ideal of the unitary nation-state and the reality of multinational states. It represents the first comprehensive historico-legal account of the treatment of Kurdish aspirations to statehood within the international law literature on self-determination over time.
Qualifications
- PhD 2022
- LL.M (Hons) 2014
- MA (Hons) 2008
- BA (1st Class) 2005
Undergraduate teaching
- Public International Law, Private International Law, International Organisations, International Law of Armed Conflict, International Law of the Sea, International Human Rights Law, and Principles and Theories of Research
- International Law Ordinary (1 & 2)
- International Law in Global Affairs
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Past PhD students supervised
Law Research Projects (undergraduate)
Research summary
- Public International Law
- Human Rights
- Self-Determination
Current research interests
Public International Law and Human RightsPast research interests
Translation Studies and English LiteratureProject activity
- RA on the Referendums, Secession and Self-determination
- RA on the Effect of Covid-19 on the International Support for Peacebuilding and Conflict Management
Conference details
14th Annual International Conference on International Studies
Organiser
Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), 13-16 June 2016, Athens, Greece
- Edinburgh Law School and Cameron PhD Studentships
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University of Edinburgh Library Fund, for purchasing Records of the Kurds: Territory, Revolt and Nationalism, 1831–1979 (CUP, 13 Volume set worth £5000)
- The Legal Status of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in International Law, Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies (George Mason University 2014)
- The Kurdish Self-Rule Constitution in Syria, CJIL (Oxford University Press 2015)
- Kurdish Regional Self-rule Administration in Syria: A new Model of Statehood and its Status in International Law Compared to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq, JJPS (Cambridge University Press 2016)
- A New Creative Kurdish Constitution in the Middle East, Creativity Studies (Routledge 2017)
- The Turkish Operation in Afrin (Syria) and The Silence of the Lambs, Blog of the European Journal of International Law (EJIL), Professor Anne Peters, Ebtekar Newspaper (10 February 2018)
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The Sèvres Centennial: Self-Determination and the Kurds, ASIL Insights (10 August 2020)
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Self-Determination and Use of Force in Rojava, Journal of Human Rights and Social Work (Springer 2021)
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Kurdistan on the Sèvres Centenary: How a Distinct People Became the World’s Largest Stateless Nation, Nationalities Papers (The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity) (CUP 2021)
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The Violations of Sovereignty and the Right to Self-Determination in Rojava and Ukraine, Opinio Juris (2022)
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Kurdistan in Tehran: What the Murder of Jina Amini Means for the Future of Iran, Religion & Ethics, ABC News (2022)
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Die Frau, die zum Symbol des Widerstands wurde (The Woman Who Became a Symbol of Resistance), Zeit Online (2022)
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Jina Amini: The Woman whose Death Sparked Protests in Eastern Kurdistan, The National (2022)
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Remedial Peoplehood: Russia’s New Theory on Self-Determination in International Law and its Ramifications beyond Ukraine, EJIL:Talk (2002)