Waad Abualrob is a final year PhD student at the University of Westminster. Waad has an LLB in Law from An-Najah National University (Palestine), a high diploma in Business, Law and Social Science from the UK, and an LLM in International Law from the University of Westminster. Waad’s PhD thesis focuses on the protection of the environment in times of occupation. His research interests focus on the protection of the environment in armed conflict and on the law of occupation.