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NAKAJIMA, Kei

Division | Department of Comparative Contemporary Law |
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Research Fields | International Law, International Economic Law, Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals |
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Teaching and Research Appointments
April 2020 − | Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo |
Topics of Research
- 1Law and practice of international courts and tribunals
- 2Investment treaty law and arbitration
- 3International law of sovereign debt restructuring
Selected Publications
Monographs
- The International Law of Sovereign Debt Dispute Settlement (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Series, Cambridge University Press, September 2022), 349pp+xxx.
- Evidence before International Courts and Tribunals, Shinzansha Publications, Ltd., 2016 (in Japanese). Awarded 50th Mineichiro Adachi Medal (Mineichiro Adachi Memorial Foundation, 31 October 2017).
Journal articles and book chapters
- "Gramercy v Peru: Vintage Sovereign Land Bonds Protected by a New-Generation International Investment Agreement", ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal, Vol. 38, No. 3 (2023), pp. 547-554. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/icsidreview/siad031
- "Fact-Finding by Trade-off: Questions of Evidence and Its Interactions with Valuation in Compensation Cases before the International Court of Justice", Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, Vol. 26 (2023), pp. 428-452.
- "Faut-il établir l’existence d’un autre différend pour que des demandes reconventionnelles soient déclarées recevables ? Une étude complémentaire sur la notion de différend devant la Cour internationale de Justice", Revue belge de droit international,2020/1, pp. 268-286.
- “Beyond Abaclat: Mass Claims in Investment Treaty Arbitration and Regulatory Governance for Sovereign Debt Restructuring”, Journal of World Investment & Trade, vol. 19, no. 2 (2018), pp. 208-247.
- “Traditional and Modern Designs for the International Law of Sovereign Debt Restructuring: A Way Forward", in Holly Cullen, Joanna Harrington and Catherine Renshaw (eds.), Experts, Networks and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 230-256.
- “Parallel Universes of Investment Protection? A Divergent Finding on the Definition of Investment in the ICSID Arbitration on Greek Sovereign Debts", Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, vol. 15, no. 3 (2017), pp. 471-489.
- “An Elusive Safeguard with Loopholes: Sovereign Debt and its ‘Negotiated Restructuring’ in International Investment Agreements in the Age of Global Financial Crisis", International Review of Law, Vol. 2016-3 (2016), 20 pp; republished in Transnational Dispute Management, no. 2018-1 (2018).
Miscellaneous
- "Sovereign defaults during and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine", Cambridge University Press Blog Fifteeneightyfour,25 October 2022
- "Mass Claims", Jus Mundi- Wiki Notes (June 2020) at https://jusmundi.com/en/document/wiki/en-mass-claims
- “European Communities—Customs Classification of Frozen Boneless Chicken Cuts, WT/DS269/AB/R, WT/DS286/AB/R, Appellate Body Report (adopted on 27 September 2005)”, Oxford Reports on International Law (ITL 100, 2016).
- “Korea—Definitive Safeguard Measure on Imports of Certain Dairy Products, WT/DS98/AB/R, Appellate Body Report (adopted on 12 January 2000)”, Oxford Reports on International Law (ITL 064, 2015).
- “Tax Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) and International Economic Law”, Centre for Trade and Economic Integration (CTEI) Working Papers, no. 2013-2 (Geneva: The Graduate Institute, 2013), 82 pp (with Isabel Lamers and Pauline Mcharo).
Educational Activities
Graduate School of Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo | The Jurisprudence of International Courts and Tribunals International Business Transaction Law |