Notice of the Online Lecture Series on International Dispute Settlement

Lecture 1：Relationship between Treaty and Custom

Time: 19:10-20:40 16 October 2025

Venue: Microsoft Teams (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software)

Meeting ID: 390 998 951 863 1

Passcode: bA7JW2Tb

Lecture 2：ICJ and Dispute Settlement

Time：19:00-20:30 22 October 2025

Venue: Microsoft Teams

Meeting ID: 390 998 951 863 1

Passcode: bA7JW2Tb

Lecture 3：Use of Force under jus ad bellum

Time: 19:00-20:30 30 October 2025

Venue: Microsoft Teams

Meeting ID: 390 998 951 863 1

Passcode: bA7JW2Tb

Speaker：Professor Yutaka Arai

Yutaka Arai is a Professor of international human rights law, Univ. of Kent, Brussels, Belgium. Yutaka bypassed the mandatory fourth undergraduate year to obtain his LLM (public law) at Keio Univ. in 1993. He obtained LLM (int'l law) and PhD at Univ. of Cambridge in 1998. He has published two monographs and more than fifty papers on human rights law, international law and legal theories in peer-reviewed journals. Yutaka has been invited as an expert at various UN and ICRC expert meetings. He is fluent in Japanese, English and French, while reading German and Spanish.