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Rikkyo University International Law Research Center (Annex NI)

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Name

Naoki IWATSUKI (Mr.)

1973	Born in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
1992	Graduated from Okazaki High School, Aichi Prefecture
1996	Received LL.B from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
1998	Received LL.M from the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Law and Politics
2000	Received D.E.A. from the University of Paris 1(Panthéon-Sorbonne)
2002	Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo
2003	Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Politics, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan
2005.4 ~ 2012.3	Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and Politics, Rikkyo University
2010.9 ~ 2011.3	Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute
2011.4 ~ 2011.9	Visiting Fellow at Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, the University of 　Cambridge
2011.10 ~ 2012.9	Visiting Scholar at the University of Rome "La Sapienza"
2012.4~	Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan

　Fields of Interest

　
One of his main concerns lies in the linkage of countermeasures and amicable dispute settlement procedures. In order to complete this project, he is now conducting an in depth study of the institutional mechanisms of the European Union on the export/import control. In particular, he is much interested in the European Union’s policy concerning economic measures as stipulated in Agreements on Partnership and Cooperation concluded by the EC/EU.

- Development of International Law as an Integral Legal Order (constitutionalization, legalization, changing conception of States and their sovereignty, etc.) and Its Impact on the Process of International Dispute Settlement.

- Countermeasures/Economic Sanctions

- Enforcement of International Law (Peaceful Settlement of International Dispute, International Responsibility, Implementation of International Law by States and through Compliance Mechanisms).　

Principal Publications

1.	"Curbing Another War in the Wake of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Keeping World War III from Becoming a Reality (1)(2)," Horitsyjiho, Vol. 96, No. 6 (2024), pp. 70-74 & Vol. 96, No. 7 (2024), pp. 95-100 [in Japanese].
2.	"Challenge from Russia Against Jus Contra Bellum Under Contemporary International Law and Legal Responses to Be Taken by the International Community," in Shuichi Furuya, Hitomi Takemura, Kuniko Ozaki eds., Global Impact of the Ukraine Conflict: Perspectives from International Law (Springer, 2024), pp. 3－23.
3.	"Treaty Interpretation Developed by the Supreme Court of Korea in the 2018 Decision on the Liability of Japanese Company for Forced Labor during Japanese Colonial Era," Etrandute, Vol. 3 (2020), pp. 248-289 [in Japanese].
4.	Advanced Readings in International Law (Nihon Hyoron Sha, 2020) [co-edited with Tadashi MORI,in Japanese].
5.	"Legal Nature of Non-forcible Unilateral Measures by Third States in Case of Grave Violation of Human Rights: Critical Analysis on the Doctrine of "Third-party Countermeasures"," in Yuji IWASAWA, Koichi MORIKAWA, Tadashi MORI, and Yumi NISHIMURA eds., Dynamics of International Law: In Memory of Professor Akira KOTERA, vol. 765 (2018), pp. 49-55 [in Japanese].
6.	"Third Party Countermeasures," Law Seminar, vol. 765 (2018), pp. 49-55 [in Japanese].
7.	"International Law-Making and Legislative Policy in the International Law Commissio in Light of Its Work on Third-Party Countermeasures in the State Responsibility Articles," Law Times, vol. 89, no. 10 (2017), pp. 33-39 [in Japanese].
8.	International Law and World Events (Iwanamihoten, 2016) [co-edited with Koichi MORIKAWA, Tadashi MORI, Iwao FUJISAWA, and Tomofumi KITAMURA, in Japanese].
9.	"South China Sea Arbitration and Peacuful Settlement of International Disputes," Law Classes, vol. 435 (2016), pp. 48-56 [in Japanese].
10.	"Japan-Korea Agreement on So-called Comfort Womes and Its Implementation," Quarterly Jurist, vol. 19 (2016), pp. 74-82 [in Japanese].
11.	"Legal Relationship between Investors and Their Home States under International Investment Agreements," in Jyunichi Eto (ed.), Diversified Aspects of the Discipline of International Law (Yuhikaku, 2015) [in Japanese].
12.	"Denial of Benefit," Akira Kotera and Kozo Kawai (eds.), Energy Investment Arbitration: Case Studies (Yuhikaku, 2013) [in Japanese].
13.	"Reconstruction of the Law of State Responsibility as a System for Ensuring Legality in International Legal Order " in Shinya Myrase and Koji Tsuruoka (eds.), International Law Commission at Time of Reform: Festschrift for Ambassador Chusei Yamada (Shinzansha, 2011), pp.163-192 [in Japanese].
14.	"Chapter 81 Procedural Conditions of Countermeasures," J. Crawfords et als (eds.), The Law of International Responsibility (Oxford UP, 2010), pp. 1149-1156 (in collaboration with Yuji IWASAWA) [in English].
15.	“Securing Proportionality of Countermeasures in Contemporary International Law: Principles and Its Interpretation in the light of Peaceful Dispute Settlement Process,” Rikkyo Law Review, vol. 78 (2010), pp. 206-299 [in Japanese].
16.	"Chapter 12 Jurisdiction and Admissibility of International Investment Arbitrations" in Kotera Akira (ed.), International Investment Agreements － Legal Protection of Investments through Arbitration (Sanseido, 2010), 214-241 [in Japanese].
17.	“Legal Structure of International Dispute Settlement and Countermeasures: A Reflection on the Legal Basis of Countermeasures in Contemporary International Law,” Journal of International Law and Diplomacy, vol. 107 (2008), pp. 204-237 [in Japanese with English summary].
18.	“Legal Foundation of the Notion of Reprisals in Traditional International Law,” Rikkyo Law Review, vol. 67 (2005), pp. 23-83 [in Japanese].
19.	“Principle of Proportionality in the Law of Countermeasures: a preliminary study,” Journal of Social Science, vol. 54, no. 1 (2003), pp. 245-259 [in Japanese].
20.	“The Significance of ‘Peaceful’ Settlement of Disputes: The Gap between Reprisals and Countermeasures,” Hongo Journal of Law and Politics, vol. 7 (1998), pp. 383-426 [in Japanese].