Dr. Loqman Radpey is a research member at the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law (ECIGL) at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Over the past decade, he has written extensively about the legal status of the Kurdistan question and the application of international law to the right to self-determination of the Kurdish people. Routledge is publishing his monograph, titled "Towards an Independent Kurdistan: Self-Determination in International Law". The book represents the first comprehensive historico-legal account of the treatment of Kurdish aspirations to an independent Kurdistan (i.e., statehood) within the international law literature on self-determination.