{"id":197961,"date":"2018-07-03T18:20:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T12:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=197961"},"modified":"2018-07-03T18:20:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T12:50:54","slug":"yuji-iwasawa-elected-to-international-court-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2018\/07\/03\/yuji-iwasawa-elected-to-international-court-of-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuji Iwasawa elected to International Court of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>International Court of Justice:<\/strong> Japanese international law professor Yuji Iwasawa was elected a Judge of the International Court of Justice, the UN\u2019s principal judicial body on 22.6.2018. He filled the vacancy left by 85-year-old Hisashi Owada who retired on June 7. He won the votes of 184 countries of the 193 member nations in the UN General Assembly, and the support of all 15 member countries on the UN Security Council. He will serve the remainder of his predecessor\u2019s nine-year term, which runs until 5.2.2021.<br \/>\nIwasawa is currently a professor of international law at the University of Tokyo graduate school, and most recently served as chairperson of the UN Human Rights Committee. In addition to chairing the UN Human Rights Committee, he served as President of the Japanese Society of International Law, Vice-Chair of the London-based International Law Association, and as Judge and Vice-President of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal in Manila, Philippines. Iwasawa\u2019s publications include \u201cDomestic Application of International Law,\u201d \u201cDispute Settlement in the WTO\u201d and \u201cThird Parties Before International Tribunals: The ICJ and the WTO.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[Source: today.law.harvard.edu]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Court of Justice: Japanese international law professor Yuji Iwasawa was elected a Judge of the International Court of Justice, the UN\u2019s <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":131111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[6111,30732],"class_list":["post-197961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appointments","category-news","tag-appointment","tag-icj"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with 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