Shotaro Hamamoto

LL.B.(Kyoto), LL.M.(Kyoto), Docteur en droit (Paris II). Professeur invité, Paris I (2009) and Sciences Po de Paris (2012). Counsel and Advocate for the Japanese Government in Whaling in the Antarctica (ICJ, Australia v. Japan, New Zealand intervening, 2010-2014), Hoshinmaru (ITLOS, Japan v. Russia, 2007), and Tomimaru (ITLOS, Japan v. Russia, 2007). Assistant for the Spanish Government in Fisheries Jurisdiction (ICJ, Spain v. Canada, 1997-98). Japanese Representative to the UNCITRAL WG II (Arbitration/Conciliation) (2010-) and to the OECD Investment Committee (2011). Arbitrator, Japan Sports Arbitration Agency (2008-). Co-chair, Committee on Procedure of International Courts and Tribunals, International Law Association (2016-). Fields of research: theory of international law, international dispute settlement, law of the sea, international investment law, international sports law, and institutional law of the European Union. Recent publications include: "Articles 220, 270-277; Annex V", in Alexander Proelß ed., The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: A Commentary, München, Beck / Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2017; "Is investment arbitration inimical to the human right to water?" (co-authored with Miharu Hirano (first author), in Julien Chaisse ed., Charting the Water Regulatory Future, Cheltenham, Elgar, 2017; "Paradoxical Role of Experts in the Whaling in the Antarctic Case", Japanese Yearbook of International Law, vol. 59 [2016]; “Le Règlement de la CNUDCI sur la transparence dans l'arbitrage entre investisseurs et États fondé sur des traités et la Convention de Maurice sur la transparence”, Journal du droit international (Clunet), t. 143, 2016; "From the Requirement of Reasonableness to a 'Comply and Explain' Rule: The Standard of Review in the Whaling Judgment", in Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Dai Tamada eds., Whaling in the Antarctic: Significance and Implications of the ICJ Judgment, Leiden, Brill/Nijhoff, 2016; “Parties to the ‘Obligations’ in the Obligations Observance (‘Umbrella’) Clause”, ICSID Review, 2015; “État situé dans le droit international de l’investissement”, in Shotaro Hamamoto, Hironobu Sakai & Akiho Shibata eds., Essays in Honour of Professor Ryuichi Ida, Brill, 2015; “Domestic Review of Treaty-Based International Investment Awards: Effects of the Metalclad Judgment of the British Columbia Supreme Court”, in Machiko Kanetake & André Nollkaemper eds., Rule of Law at the National and International Levels: Contestations and Deference, Routledge, 2015.