Kyoto Seminar Series on International Law　

2024

• 2 November 2024
  • Laurence Boisson de Chazournes (Professor, University of Geneva), "International Water Law: A Perspective"
  • Comment by Miharu Hirano (Associate Professor, Kobe University)

• 7 September 2024
  • Peace and Security
    • Yohei Okada (Associate Professor, Kobe University), "Military Assistance on Request"
    • Nao Seoka (Associate Professor, Kindai University), "Jus Cogens and Veto Power"
    • Erika de Wet (Professor, University of Graz)
  • International Law Education -1.0: How to Reconstruct? —In Conversation with Professor Erika de Wet
    • Miharu Hirano (Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)
    • Akinaga Yoshida (Assistant Professor, Waseda University)
    • Ayaka Doyle (Research Associate, Waseda University)
    • Erika de Wet

2019

• 19 February 2019
  • Hinako Takata (Ph.D. student, Kyoto University), "The Status and Role of Domestic Organs in UN Human Rights Treaties"
  • Shiho Sugiki (Resercher, Kyoto Human Rights Institute), ""How can human rights treaties be applicable extraterritorially?"
  • David Kretzmer (Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "State Parties Reports"
  • Ruth Halperin-Kaddari (Professor, Bar-Ilan University), "CEDAW and Civil Society: The Influence of NGO Participation"

2018

• 9 October 2018
  • Hoi Kong (Professor, UBC), "NAFTA, USMCA and Sustainable Development".
• 29 June 2018
  • Sabine Konrad (Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery) & Arnes Fuchs (Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery), "For Students Aspiring to International Careers".
• 27 June 2018
  • René Provost (Professor, McGill University), "Courts Established by Non-State Armed Groups in Conflict Zones and the Concept of the Rule of Law".
• 7 May 2018
  • Horng Der-Chin（洪徳欽）(Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica), "Risk assessment in the European Food Safety Authority and Its Lessons for Taiwan".
• 7 March 2018
  • Yoram Dinstein (Professor emeritus, Tel Aviv University), "'Imminence' in Self-defence".
• 5 February 2018
  • Ben Juratowitch (Head of Public International Law Practice, Freshfields), "Practicing law before international courts and arbitral tribunals"

2017

• 31 July 2017
  • Ronny Abraham (President, International Court of Justice), "The International Court of Justice and the Rule of Law"
• 28 May 2017
  • Paul Reichler (Partner, Foley & Hoag), "The Rule of Law and Its Limits"
• 25 May 2017
  • Philippe Couvreur (Registrar, International Court of Justice), "70 years of the International Court of Justice: how it remains relevant in a changing world?"
• 24 February 2017
  • Sir Daniel Bethlehem, KCMG, QC (20 Essex Street Chambers), "Self-Defense and Recent Practice".

2016

• 14 October 2016
  • Hon. Anisul Huq (Minister, Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs of Bangladesh [MLJPA])
  • Mohammad Shahidul Haque (Secretary, Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs, MLJPA)
  • Abu Saleh Sheikh Mohammad Zahirul Haque (Secretary, Law and Justice Division, MLJPA)
  • Taslima Monsoor (Professor and Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Dhaka)
  • Bikash Kumar Saha (Deputy Secretary, Law and Justice Division, MLJPA)
  • Mohammad Khadem Ul Kayes (Senior Assistant Secretary, Law and Justice Division, MLJPA)
  • M. Masum, Private Secretary to the Honorable Minister, MLJPA)
• 13 October 2016
  • Hoi Kong (Associate Professor, McGill University, "Curriculum Reform in the Faculty of Law, McGill University"
• 3 March 2016
  • Amy Sander (Barrister, Essex Court Chambers), "Commencing an ICSID Arbitration: practical issues and pitfalls"
• 3 March 2016
  • Jay Butler (Academic Fellow and Kellis E. Parker Teaching Fellow, Columbia Law School), "Amnesty, Accountability and the Responsibility to Protect"

2015

• 23 October 2015
  • James Harrison (Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh), "The Evolution of Investment Treaty Arbitration as a Means for the Settlement of Investor-State Disputes - remembering the past, illuminating the present and predicting the future"
  • Alina Miron (Maître de conférences, Université de Paris 13 (Paris-Nord)), "Arbitration or Adjudication? Strategy and tactics in the choice of forum”

2014

• 18 November 2014
  • Urban Rusnák (Secretary-General, Energy Charter Secretariat): "Energy Charter: Present and Future"
• 18 November 2014
  • Brooks W. Daly (Deputy Secretary-General and Principal Legal Counsel, Permanent Court of Arbitration): "PCA and the Yukos Arbitration"
• 21 October 2014
  • Philippe Gautier (Registrar, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea): "The Contribution of ITLOS to the Development of International Law"
• 3 February 2014
  • IHL in Action - 150 years of humanitarian challenges
• 2 February 2014
  • Kyoto Seminar on International Investment Law

2013

• 18 October 2013
  • Naoki Iguchi (Partner, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu): "Practicing lawyer's role in investment arbitration"
• 31 May 2013
  • Maki Kobayashi (Director, Economic Treaties Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs): "The current state of the WTO and negotiations of EPAs"

2012

• 26 May 2012
  • Tokuro Furuya (Director, Protocol Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs): "Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic and Consular Relations"
• 22 May 2012
  • Antonina Bakardjieva-Engelbrekt (Professor, Stockholm University): "Multi-layered Governance in the European Union"

2010

• Piet Eeckhout (Professor, University College London): "The new office of the EU High Representative and the new European External Action Service" (9 November 2010)
• Noriyuki Shikata (Director, Economic Treaties Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs): "FTAs in East Asia and in the Asia-Pacific Region" (23 April 2010)

2009

• 13 October 2009
  • Olivier Corten (Professeur, Université libre de Bruxelles): "Le droit contre la guerre"