Seminar on Maritime Delimitation on 13 May 2013

SEMINAR ON MARITIME DELIMITATION ON 13 MAY 2013

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Ambassador Koji Tsuruoka

Ambassador Koji Tsuruoka is Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Prior to this appointment, he was Director-General of the International Legal Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2008-2010).

A career lawyer-diplomat, Koji Tsuruoka entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1976 after graduating from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law, and has served in the following positions in the Ministry and overseas: Assistant Director, Treaties Division, Treaties Bureau (1982-1986), First Secretary, Embassy of Japan in the U.S.S.R. (1986-1988), First Secretary, Embassy of Japan in the U.S.A. (1988-1991), Senior Coordinator, First International Organization Division, Economic Affairs Bureau (1991-1994), Director of the Legal Affairs Division, Treaties Bureau (1994-1996), Director of the Second North America Division, North American Affairs Bureau (1996-1998), Director of the First North America Division, North American Affairs Bureau (1998- 2000), Minister, Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Indonesia (2000-2002), Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (2002-2003), Deputy Director-General, Foreign Policy Bureau (2003-2006), Director-General for Global Issues (2006-2008), Director-General, International Legal Affairs Bureau (2008-2010), Deputy Vice-Minister for Foreign Policy (2010- 2012), Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs (Sep. 2012 – present).

Philippe Sands QC

At Matrix Chambers Philippe Sands has developed a practice in general international law, covering a wide range of subjects. Areas in which he currently advises and litigates include: maritime boundary disputes in the Caribbean, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; international claims relating to natural resources, pollution and environmental assessment; international trade disputes; issues relating to the immunity of serving and former heads of state from the jurisdiction of national and international courts; international claims relating to the use of force and allegations of torture and genocide and other violations of fundamental human rights; cases relating to individual violations of international criminal laws. He has appeared before many international courts, including the European Court of Justice; the International Court of Justice; the World Trade Organisation dispute settlement organs; the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; and the International Criminal Court; as well as in international arbitrations and before the English courts.

At University College London Philippe Sands is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals in the Faculty, and a key member of staff in the Centre for Law and the Environment. His teaching areas include public international law, the settlement of international disputes (including arbitration), and environmental and natural resources law. His academic publications include Bowett's Law of International Institutions (Sweet & Maxwell, 6th edition, 2009), From Nuremberg to The Hague (CUP, 2003), Principles of International Environmental Law (CUP, 3rd edition, 2012, with Jacqueline Peel), and the Manual of International Courts and Tribunals (2nd ed., 2010, OUP, co-editor).

Professor Malcolm D Evans OBE Malcolm Evans is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol where he has taught since 1988 and has served as Head of the School of Law (2003-5) and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law (2005-9). His areas of specialism include the international law of the sea and international human rights protection. His particular interests concern maritime boundary delimitation, torture and torture prevention and the protection of religious liberty under international law, on which he was written extensively. Major published works include: Religious Liberty and International Law in Europe (CUP, 1997), Preventing Torture (OUP, 1998), Protecting Prisoners (ed) (OUP, 1999), Combating Torture in Europe (Council of Europe, 2002), Manual on the Wearing of Religious Symbols in Public Areas (Council of Europe/Brill, 2009), The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture (OUP, 2011).

He is Chair of the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture (the SPT). He is also a member of the OSCE ODIHR Advisory Council on the Freedom of Religion or Belief, and has worked extensively with numerous international organisations on a broad range of human rights issues. In 2010 he also became a member of the Foreign Secretary’s Human Rights Advisory Group. With Professor Rachel Murray, he has published on the protection of human rights in Africa. He is also editor of the work, International Law (OUP, 3rd ed, 2010) and of Blackstones’ International Law Documents (OUP, 10th ed, 2011). He is a General Editor of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, and Co-Editor in Chief of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion.

David H Anderson CMG

David Anderson was a Judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (1996- 2005), after retiring as Second Legal Adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Whilst with the legal advisers to the FCO (1960-1996), he advised on all aspects of international law, including the law of treaties and the law of the sea. He was a member of the British Delegation to many international conferences, including the Vienna Conference on the Law of Treaties. Between 1973 and 1995, he played an active part in the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea, the Secretary General’s Consultations about Part XI, and the Straddling Fish Stocks Conference; he acted as the UK Agent in the Fisheries Jurisdiction case (UK v. Iceland) at the merits stage before the International Court of Justice in 1972; he negotiated over a dozen maritime boundary treaties in several different seas and oceans; and he spent three years with the UK Mission to the UN in New York. He is now listed as an Arbitrator under Annex VII of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

David Anderson has published extensively on law of the sea matters. He is the author of Modern Issues of the Law of the Sea: selected essays (Martinus Nijhoff, 2008). His most recent publications include ‘Islands and Rocks in the Modern Law of the Sea’ in M Nordquist et al. (eds.), The Law of the Sea Convention: US accession and Globalisation (Martinus Nijhoff, 2012); ‘The Principle of Reasonableness in the Law of the Sea’ in H Hestermeyer et al. (eds.) Coexistence, Cooperation and Solidarity – Liber amicorum Rüdiger Wolfrum (Martinus Nijhoff, 2012); and ‘Coastal State Jurisdiction and High Seas Freedoms in the EEZ in the Light of the “Saiga” case’ in CR Symmons (ed.), Selected Contemporary Issues on the Law of the Sea (Martinus Nijhoff, 2011).