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Professor Yutaka Arai
Deputy-Director in Law programmes at Brussels School of International Studies (BSIS), University of Kent, Brussels
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.
Yutaka's teaching focuses on teaching postgraduates in BISR in the fields of the Law of Armed Conflict, International Human Rights, International Criminal Law and legal Fundamentals, Dissertations and Research methods.
International humanitarian law (laws of war/jus in bello); Still, he may supervise PhD candidates dealing with international criminal law.
Yutaka has successfully supervised four PhD candidates under his primary supervision:
Currently supervising the following PhD students under my primary supervision.
Acting as the principal supervisor for:
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