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Kei Nakajima

Division Department of Comparative Contemporary Law
Research Fields International Law, International Economic Law, Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals
E-mail kei.nakajimaiss.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Personal Website https://www.keinakajima.com/

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

  • "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
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