For prospective students interested in studying international law in GSICS, Kobe University
Details on the research environment, fellow students, programs and scholarships are here --->
Information on the MEXT scholarship (This is a link to a webpage of Kobe University)
Current students' work: We are going strong!
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Receiving a prestigious award for young scholars from Ishibashi Tanzan Foundation, 2023 (a link to a page in Japanese).
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Receiving a prestigious grant from Egusa Foundation for International Cooperation in the Social Sciences, 2022 (EFICSS, a link to a page in Japanese).
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Participating in panels in the ISA Annual Convention, 2022, as panelists.
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Writing a co-authored book review, “State-Sponsored Cyber Operations and International Law: Book review of Henning Lahmann, Unilateral Remedies to Cyber Operations (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and François Delerue, Cyber Operations and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2020)", International Cybersecurity Law Review 2:1 (2021) 195-200.
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Writing a book review independently, Book Note on Fortin, Katharine (2017) The Accountability of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in Journal of Peace Research (April 2019).
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Writing an analysis of topics related to the dissertation or the thesis:
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Japan under the Suga Administration and the security questions, in Les Yeux du Monde (November 2020, in French).
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"France and the Cyberspace" (Part I and Part II) in Les Yeux du Monde (July and September 2020, in French).
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"Future of the Japanese Constitution" (Part I and Part II) in Les Yeux du Monde (April 2020 in French).
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Students are also active in participating external activities such as:
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Internship with the United Nations University in Tokyo (a Ph.D student, spring 2022)
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Internship with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Kobe (a master student, summer 2017).
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EUSPACE Summer School (a master student, September 2020) and Annual Strategic Space Law Course, McGill University (November 2020).
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Summer Program for Research Fellows in Korea University (a master student, summer 2019, funded by the Campus Asia Program of Kobe University);
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IFLOS Summer Academy in Hamburg (a Ph.D student, summer 2019, partially funded by a travel grant from Kobe University);
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Hague Academy of International Law, winter course (a Ph.D student, January 2019);
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Northeast Asia Training Course for University Lectures on International Humanitarian Law under the auspices of the ICRC (a master student, 2018).
Our institutional strength
Currently (as of February 2023), on-campus resources for students include the access to:
and many more!
Keywords for the research areas: Public international law, international security, international humanitarian law, law of armed conflict, use of force, self-defence, collective security, the United Nations Security Council, weapons of mass destruction, the NPT, the TPNW, the CWC, arms trade, terrorism, arms control, disarmament, economic sanctions, territorial disputes, International Court of Justice.