Professor Yuji IWASAWA is Professor of International Law at the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law in Japan.

He is now on sabbatical leave in Paris as a chercheur invité au Centre de recherche sur les droits de l'homme et le droit humanitaire de l'Université Panthéon Assas.

Currently, he is a Vice-Chairperson of the Human Rights Committee under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (formerly a Chairperson), and an Associé de l'Institut de droit international.

Formerly, he was counsel for Japan in the Whaling in the Antarctic (Australia v. Japan: New Zealand intervening) case before the International Court of Justice, the Vice-President of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal (Manila), and a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Positions:

• Professor of international law, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, Japan (since 2005)
• Chercheur invité, Centre de recherche sur les droits de l'homme et le droit humanitaire, Université Panthéon Assas (since 2015)
• Visiting Fellow, Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, Cambridge (1991-93, 1997, 2000-01)
• Associé, Institut de droit international (since 2015)
• Member, Human Rights Committee (since 2007); Chairperson (2009-11), Vice-Chairperson (2011-13, since 2015), Special Rapporteur on Follow-up to Views (2013-15)
• Counsel for Japan, International Court of Justice, Whaling in the Antarctic
• Judge, Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal (2004-13); Vice-President (2010-13)
• Member, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2002-04)
• Director for Research Planning, Japanese Society of International Law (since 2014)

Education:

• S.J.D., School of Law, University of Virginia, 1997
• LL.M., Harvard Law School, 1978
• LL.B., Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, 1977

Principal Publications:

• International Law, Human Rights, and Japanese Law: The Impact of International Law on Japanese Law (Oxford University Press, 1998)
• Domestic Applicability of Treaties: What are “Self-executing” Treaties? (Yuhikaku, 1985) (Japanese)
• Dispute Settlement in the WTO (Sanseido, 1995) (Japanese)
• Lectures on International Law (co-edited, Yuhikaku, 2d ed., 2010) (Japanese)
• International Law Documents (editor-in-chief, published annually, Yuhikaku) (Japanese)
• "Domestic Application of International Law", Recueil des cours de l'Académie de La Haye (forthcoming)