Hitomi Takemura Editor & Author

Shuichi Furuya is a professor of international law at Waseda Law School, Tokyo. He was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee (2019-2022, Vice-Chair 2021-2022), a member of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (2012-2021, Vice-President 2015-16), Co-Rapporteur of the ILA Committee on Reparation for Victims of Armed Conflict (2004-2014), and the editor-in-chief of Journal of International Law and Diplomacy (2014-2016). 

Hitomi Takemura has been a professor of international law at the Graduate School of Law and the Graduate School of International and Public Policy (IPP) of Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. She lectures international law in Japan since 2008 and specializes international criminal law. She earned an LL.M. in international law from Hitotsubashi University, an LL.M. in public international law and international criminal law from Leiden University, and a PhD in law from the Irish Centre for Human Rightsat the National University of Ireland, Galway in 2008. Her publications in English include the Rohingya Crisis and the International Criminal Court (Springer, 2023) and International Human Right to Conscientious Objection to Military Service and Individual Duties to Disobey Manifestly Illegal Orders (Springer, 2008). 

Kuniko Ozaki is Professor of International Law at Chuo University, Faculty of Law. She served as a judge of International Criminal Court between 2010 and 2019. She was a Second Vice-President of the Court between 2015 and 2018.  During her tenure, she sat on various cases including Bemba, Kenyatta (Presiding) and Ntaganda cases. Professor Ozaki graduated from Tokyo University in 1978 and obtained an M. Phil. in International Relations at Oxford University in 1982. Afterwards, she worked in several positions for the Japanese Foreign Ministry and Justice Ministry. From 2006 to 2009, she worked for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime where she was Director for Treaty Affairs. She has also worked as a professor of international law at Tohoku University Graduate School of Law and at other universities and has written extensively on international criminal law, refugee law and law of human rights.