Keynote Speech by Judge Yuji Iwasawa, International Court of Justice

Co-sponsored event:

HILJ 2023 Symposium

Reassessing Enforcement: Strengthening Compliance with International Law

12:20-1:20 PM
Edward A. Smith Lecture
Judge Yuji Iwasawa, International Court of Justice
Moderator: Professor Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Judge Yuji Iwasawa (LL.M. 1978) has been a Judge of the International Court of Justice since June 2018.

He is currently also a Vice-Chair of the London-based International Law Association and a member of the Institut de droit international.

Prior to his election, he was a professor of international law at the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law. He served on the Human Rights Committee under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights for nearly 12 years. He was elected as its Chairperson twice (2009-2011, 2017-2018). He was also formerly President of the Japanese Society of International Law, Judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal, and a member of the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

He was also a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge three times (1991-1993, 1997, 2000-2001), a Visiting Fellow at the University of Paris (2015-2016), and a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School (2014). He has also lectured at The Hague Academy of International Law (2002).

His books include: International Law, a standard textbook on international law in Japanese (University of Tokyo Press 2020); Domestic Application of International Law (Nijhoff 2022); International Law, Human Rights, and Japanese Law (Oxford University Press 1998); and WTO Dispute Settlement (Sanseido 1995) (in Japanese).

Judge Iwasawa holds an LL.B. from the University of Tokyo; an LL.M. from Harvard Law School; an S.J.D. from the University of Virginia, and an Honorary Doctorate from Osaka City University.

Event details, including full Symposium schedule and registration link, on the HILJ website

Sponsored by Harvard International Law Journal. Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program and East Asian Legal Studies.