Professor Takayo Ando

Institution: Nihon University

Period of stay: 18 Sep 2023 - 13 Sep 2024

Contact: ando.takayo@nihon-u.ac.jp 

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Profile: 

Takayo Ando is a Professor of public international law at Nihon University, College of Risk Management (Japan). She graduated from the University of Tokyo, holds an MA (2001) from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, and received PhD (2014) from Nihon University. Prior to her current position, she worked as an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Nihon University, College of International Relations.

Takayo participated in the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court (2002) and the Assembly of the States Parties of the ICC (2002) as a member of the Japanese Delegation. She also worked as a fixed-term official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (2006-2009). She has served as a Refugee Examination Counsellor, Immigration Services Agency of Japan since 2016.

Takayo was awarded the 54th Mineichiro Adachi Memorial Prize in 2021 for her monograph The Structure of Legal Control of International Terrorism (Kokusai Shoin, 2020).

Research Area:

International Criminal Law

Research Title:

The Analysis of the Structure and Development of International Criminal Law through the aut dedere aut judicare Principle

Research Outline:

The objective of my research is to consider the structure and development of international criminal law, primarily focusing on the aut dedere aut judicare (the duty to extradite or prosecute) principle. This principle is provided not only in the anti-terrorism conventions after the Hague Convention for the Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (1970) and other international criminal conventions, such as the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2000), but also in certain international human rights treaties, such as the Convention against Torture (1984). 
 
Since approximately 2000, more focus has been given to this principle; for example, the International Law Commission included the aut dedere aut judicare principle in its work between the years of 2006 to 2014 and debated substantive questions relating to the typology of provisions of the principle in multilateral conventions. Secondly, in the judgment of the International Court of Justice, the “Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite Case” (2012), this principle contained in the Convention against Torture was analysed in detail. In addition, this principle was also introduced in the ILC’s draft articles on the prevention and punishment of “Crimes against Humanity.”
 
My research will focus on clarifying the substantial characteristics of the protected legal interests of international criminal conventions and the related international human rights conventions and how these characteristics influence the structure of provisions for prosecution within each convention. This will lead to coherent research on the whole structure of international criminal law and provide further clarification on the development of international criminal law.

Publications:

Takayo Ando, The Structure of Legal Control of International Terrorism: An Analysis of the Jurisdictional Provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Conventions (Kokusai Shoin, 2020)

Takayo Ando, “The ‘Aut dedere aut judicare’ Principle in the UN Drug Convention of 1988: Compared with the ‘Aut dedere aut judicare’ Principle in Anti-Terrorism Conventions,” in Yuji Iwasawa et al. eds., Dynamism in International Law (Yuhikaku, 2019)

Takayo Ando, “A Study on Russian Aggression against Ukraine from the Perspective of International Criminal Tribunals,” Risk Management Studies, Vol. 7 (2023)

Takayo Ando, “The Function of ‘General Principles of Law’ in the Drafting Process of Jurisdictional Provisions in Conventions Concerning International Terrorism,” Risk Management Studies, Vol. 2 (2018).

Takayo Ando, “The Possibility of Expanding Jurisdiction Ratione Materiae of the International Criminal Court and Terrorism: Focusing on the Proposal for Amendments Regarding the Addition of the Crime of Terrorism Submitted by the Netherlands,” Studies in International Relations, Vol. 36 No.1 (2015)

Takayo Ando, “The International Criminal Court and Terrorism: Discussion about Terrorism in the Drafting Process of Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court,” Studies in International Relations, Vol.35 No.2 (2015) etc.

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