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Loqman Radpey
Loqman Radpey is a doctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh School of Law and a research member of the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law (ECIGL) in Scotland. He has particularly focused on peopleness, self-determination, secession and statehood. Since 2013, he has studied and written about Kurdish self-determination and statehood, self-determination and the Kurds, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Rojava’s democratic confederalism, and the legal status of the Kurdish territories in international law.