Yuji Iwasawa

Expert Profile
Name: Yuji Iwasawa
Japan

Current Position
Professor of International Law, and Director of the Department of International Relations, University of Tokyo

Education
LL.B. (University of Tokyo), LL.M. (Harvard Law School), S.J.D. (University of Virginia)

Selected Professional Activities
Rapporteur of the Committee on International Human Rights Law and Practice in the International Law Association, since 1995
Member, the Japanese Society of International Law (Member of the Executive Council); the American Society of International Law (Member of the Human Rights Advocacy Group); the Japanese Society of International Human Rights Law
Former Visiting Fellow at Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, and Overseas Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge
Former Member of the Faculty, Asia-America Institute of Transnational Law of Duke University (Hong Kong), teaching International Human Rights
Participated in the United Nations Experts Group Meeting on Disability, in Berkeley, U.S.A., 1998
Author of INTERNATIONAL LAW, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND JAPANESE LAW: THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ON JAPANESE LAW (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998)
TRILATERAL PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ISSUES: CONFLICT AND COHERENCE (co-editor, Washington, D.C.: American Society of International Law, 2003)
TRILATERAL PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ISSUES: RELEVANCE OF DOMESTIC LAW AND POLICY (co-editor, New York: Transnational Publishers, 1996).