Yūji Iwasawa

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Yūji Iwasawa ( Japanese 岩 澤 雄 司 Iwasawa Yūji ; born June 4, 1954 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese lawyer and judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague since 2018 .

education

Yūji Iwasawa was born in Tokyo Prefecture in 1954. He first studied at the law faculty of the University of Tokyo and graduated in 1977 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). In 1978 he obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts . In 1997 he received his Doctor of the Science of Law (SJD) from the University of Virginia School of Law .

Career

Iwasawa initially worked as an assistant at the Tokyo Faculty of Law, then from 1982 as a junior professor at Osaka City University and in 1996 was appointed professor at Tokyo University in the Department of International Relations . Since 2005 he has been a professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Tokyo.

On June 22, 2018, Iwasawa was elected judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. There was no opponent in the election, he received the votes of 184 of the 195 member countries of the UN General Assembly and all 15 votes in the UN Security Council . He succeeded his compatriot, the former Deputy Foreign Minister Hisashi Owada, who had been a judge at the ICJ since 2003 and left office prematurely. Owada is the father of the then Crown Princess Masako , who was enthroned as Empress of Japan on May 1, 2019.

Outside employment

Iwasawa is widely involved in academic exchange and works as a lecturer at universities and academies around the world. He is himself the author of a large number of legal specialist articles, as well as the editor and reviewer of several renowned periodical publications. He is and was active in an advisory capacity for the Japanese government and for international organizations such as the World Trade Organization and the UN working group on indigenous peoples . He is also President of the Japanese Law Society for International Law and, since 2016, Vice Chairman of the International Law Association .

From 2014 to 2018 Iwasawa was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee .

Web links

Commons : Yūji Iwasawa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Source references

  1. ↑ a b c https://www.icj-cij.org/files/members-of-the-court-biographies/iwasawa_en.pdf Short biography on the website of the International Court of Justice, accessed on July 29, 2019
  2. ↑ https://sumikai.com/nachrichten-aus-japan/japanischer-universitaetsprofessor-wird-neuer-richter-am-internationalen-gerichtshof-in-den-haag-223894/ accessed on July 29, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Iwasawa, Yūji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 岩 澤 雄 司 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese lawyer, judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague
DATE OF BIRTH 4th June 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo prefecture