Lecturer： Yutaka Arai

Yutaka Arai did his undergraduate study in Law and then obtained his LLM at University of Keio in 1993. During that time, he studied international relations as an exchange student from Keio at Brown University. He then moved to England and studied for his PhD at University of Cambridge (under the supervision of Prof James Crawford, now the judge of the International Court of Justice). When employed at University of Kent at Canterbury and Brussels, his PhD was published as, The Margin of Appreciation Doctrine and the Principle of Proportionality in the Jurisprudence of the ECHR"in 2002 (Antwerp/Oxford: Intersentia/Hart). This is cited in the Arbitration before the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Dispute Concerning Access to Information under Article 9 of the OSPAR Convention (Ireland v. United Kingdom), 21-25 October 2002, available at <http://www.pca-cpa.org/PDF/IREUK2.pdf >, pp. 107-8; and <http://www.pca-cpa.org/PDF/IREUK3.pdf> pp.6, 11, 30. Yutaka published his second monograph in 2009, The Law of Occupation - Interplay between International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff). This has been cited in several judgments, including by the European Court of Human Rights, Grand Chamber in the Case of Sargsyan c. Azerbaijan, Judgment of 16 June 2015, para. 94.

Lecture 1：The Relationship between Custom and Treaty with regard to the ICJ Case Law

Time：27th September 14:30-16:30

Zoom ID:  891 3148 3257

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Lecture 2：Treaty Interpretation and Jus Cogens

Time：11th October 14:00-16:00

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Lecture 3：Introduction to International Law (with Special Focus on Sources of International Law)

Time：13th October 19:00-21:00

Zoom ID: 859 2184 2032

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Lecture 4：Methodology: Research Materials of Public International Law

Time：15th October 19:00-21:00

Zoom ID: 822 5687 9975

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Lecture 5：Career Perspectives in International Law

Time：16th October 19:00-21:00

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Lecture 6：Invalidity of Treaties - Termination and Suspension

Time：18th October 14:00-16:00

Zoom ID: 848 6424 1361

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