Researcher Shadi Sakran has published a paper at Kobe University entitled “Revisiting the ‘Recognition’ of the Palestinians’ Right to Self-Determination: Peoples as Territories.” The paper argues that the question of whether the Palestinian people, as a people, are entitled to exercise the right to external self-determination which has been highly controversial over the years.  In 2004, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Wall Advisory Opinion observed that the Palestinians’ right to self-determination is no longer in the issue. This observation serves as the benchmark for this paper to revisit the identification of people under international law. Besides, this paper critically examines whether constitutive and declaratory theories of recognition in statehood can assist in understanding the concept of people in the law of self-determination. To check the paper, click here