Professor Hitomi Takemura

Hitomi Takemura is a professor of international law at Hitotsubashi University, Japan.

Her research focuses on the effectiveness, efficiency, and legitimacy of international criminal justice, as well as the obligations and responsibilities of states and individuals for core crimes. She has gained a wealth of experience researching and teaching international law at Japanese universities. She is passionate about participating in international activities. She earned an LL.M. in international law from Hitotsubashi University, an LL.M. in public international law and international criminal law from Leiden University, and a PhD in law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland. She also worked as an intern at the Appeal Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2003 and for the International Criminal Court in 2005. She was a Fulbright researcher at the Fletcher of Law and Diplomacy in 2024. She has a strong commitment to publishing in English. For instance, her Ph.D. thesis was published as: International Human Right to Conscientious Objection to Military Service and Individual Duties to Disobey Manifestly Illegal Orders, Springer, 2008. She also published another monograph: The Rohingya Crisis and the International Criminal Court, Springer, 2023. Together with Professor Shuichi Furuya and Professor Kuniko Ozaki, she co-edited the timely book entitled Global Impact of the Ukraine Conflict, Springer, 2023. In 2022, she published a manuscript in Japanese that was titled “Prosecutorial Discretion of the International Criminal Court”.