Amphitheater 6, Law Faculty, Monday, 30 May at 13.00-15.00pm.

Hosted by the Athens Public International Law Research Center (Athens PIL) of the Faculty of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Professor Yuji IWASAWA is Professor of International Law at the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law in Japan.  He is now on sabbatical leave in Paris as a chercheur invité au Centre de recherche sur les droits de l'homme et le droit humanitaire de l'Université Panthéon Assas.  Currently, he is a Vice-Chairperson of the Human Rights Committee under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (formerly a Chairperson), and an Associé de l'Institut de droit international.  Formerly, he was counsel for Japan in the Whaling in the Antarctic case before the International Court of Justice, the Vice-President of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal (Manila), and a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.