Updated on 2025/04/11
Graduate School of Law Department of Law and Political Science
Associate Professor 2025.04 - Now
School of Law Department of Law
Associate Professor 2025.04 - Now
Ph.D. in International Law （ Kobe University ） ( Kobe University )
Master complémentaire en droit international （ Others ） ( Université libre de Bruxelles )
LL.M. in International Law （ Kobe University ） ( Kobe University )
LL.B. in International law （ Kobe University ） ( Kobe University )
Humanities & Social Sciences / International law / International Public Law, International Economic Law
International Investment
International Law
Diplomatic Protection
Investment Arbitration
Jurisdiction
THE JAPAN ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW
2016 - Now
JAPANESE SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
2009 - Now
JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF WORLD LAW
2009 - Now
Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Law Department of Law and Political Science Associate Professor of International Economic Law
2025.04 - Now
Nagoya University Graduate School of Law Adjunct Lecturer
2023.10 - 2024.03
Aichi Prefectural University School of Foreign Studies Associate Professor of International Law
2019.04 - 2025.03
Nagoya University School of Informatics and Sciences Adjunct Lecturer
2018.10 - 2019.03
Aichi Prefectural University School of Foreign Studies Lecturer
2017.04 - 2019.03
Kwansei Gakuin University School of International Studies Adjunct Lecturer
2015.04 - 2018.03
Kyoto University Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promoition of Science
2014.04 - 2017.03
Kobe University Doctoral Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promoition of Science
2009.04 - 2012.03
Contributory Fault in the Law of State Responsibility : An Insight from Investor Misconduct as a Circumstance Precluding Wrongfulness of the Host State Invited Reviewed
YAMASHITA Tomoko
Journal of International Law and Diplomacy 123 ( 2 ) 167 - 199 2024.08
Investors in the Formation of Customary International Law Reviewed
Tomoko Yamashita
S. Droubi and J. d’Aspremont (eds), International Organizations, Non-State Actors, and the Formation of Customary International Law, Melland Schill Perspectives on International Law (Manchester University Press) 382 - 403 2020.12（ ISBN:9781526134158 ）
外交的保護における個人の国籍の実効性ー重国籍者、長期居住外国人、難民に関する事例の検討からー Invited
山下朋子
浅田 正彦・桐山 孝信・徳川 信治・西村 智朗・樋口 一彦 （編）『現代国際法の潮流：坂元茂樹・薬師寺公夫両先生古稀記念論集』 2 317 - 338 2020.11
Procedural and Normative Competition between the WTO’s Dispute Settlement and the Investor-State Arbitration: Focusing on the National Treatment Principle Invited OA
YAMASHITA Tomoko
Public Policy Review 16 ( 5 ) 2020.08
WTO 紛争解決手続と投資協定仲裁の手続的・規範的競合―内国民待遇原則に着目して― Invited OA
山下 朋子
フィナンシャル・レビュー 140 146 - 164 2019.11
Alternative Mechanisms of Dispute Settlement Involving Individuals Reviewed
Tomoko Yamashita
M. Kamto and Y. Tyagi eds., Access of Individuals to International Justice: The Hague Academy of International Law, Centre for Studies and Research 2015 445 - 485 2019.10（ ISBN:9789004412279 ）
The Futility Exception to the Local Remedies Rule in Investor-State Arbitration Reviewed
YAMASHITA Tomoko
The Journal of international law and diplomacy 117 ( 1 ) 158 - 180 2018.05
Tomoko Yamashita
Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko (ed.), Human Rights and Power in Times of Globalisation (Brill Nijhoff) 135 - 169 2018.02
Exceptions to the Local Remedies Rule - A Study on the ILC Draft Articles on Diplomatic Protection Reviewed
YAMASHITA Tomoko
International Public Policy Studies 21 ( 1 ) 1 - 23 2016.09（ ISSN:2432-0870 ）
Responsibility to Protect as a Basis for ‘Judicial’ Humanitarian Intervention Reviewed
YAMASHITA Tomoko
Richard Barnes and Vassilis Tzevelekos (eds), Beyond Responsibility to Protect: Generating Change in International Law (Intersentia) 367 - 392 2016.04
YAMASHITA Tomoko
Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs 31(2013) 160 - 194 2015.11
YAMASHITA Tomoko
Adriana Di Stefano (ed.), Un Diritto Senza Terra? Funzioni e limiti del principio di territorialità nel diritto internazionale e dell’Unione europea /A Lackland Law? Territory, Effectiveness and Jurisdiction in International and European Law(Giappichelli) 87 - 114 2015.08
Theory and Practice in Diplomatic Protection [Ph.D Thesis in Japanese] OA
YAMASHITA Tomoko
Kobe University 2015.01
YAMASHITA Tomoko
Kobe Hougaku Zasshi [Kobe Law Journal] 60 ( 1 ) 378 - 314 2010.06（ ISSN:0452-2400 ）
Book Review (in Japanese) Martin Jarrett, Contributory Fault and Investor Misconduct in Investment Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2019, xxv+179 p.) Invited
YAMASHITA Tomoko
International Economic Law (Published by The Japan Association of International Economic Law) 31 226 - 231 2022.11
Book Review (in Japanese): The Protection of Intellectual Property Rights under International Investment Law, Simon Klopschinski, Christopher S. Gibson, Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, Oxford University Press (2021) Invited
YAMASHITA Tomoko
AIPPI Japan Journal 66 ( 10 ) 828 - 829 2021.10
Book Review (in Japanese): Susan D. Franck, Arbitration costs: myths and realities in investment treaty arbitration (Oxford University Press, 2019, xvii+416 p.) Invited
YAMASHITA Tomoko
International Economic Law (Published by The Japan Association of International Economic Law) ( 30 ) 247 - 251 2021.10
Nationality in Diplomatic Protection Claim-Nottebohm Case Invited
YAMASHITA Tomoko
Leading Cases in International Law, 3rd ed., Jurist Supplement No. 255 (Yuhikaku Publishing, 2021)ing 144 - 145 2021.09
YAMASHITA Tomoko
International Economic Law (Published by The Japan Association of International Economic Law) 28 2019
Judicial Decisions in Japan
Shiho Sugiki, Tomoko Yamashita
Japanese Yearbook of International Law 54 499-506 - /514-552 2011
Judicial Decisions in Japan
YAMASHITA Tomoko
Japanese Yearbook of International Law 53 575 - 579 2010
Legality of International Investment and Social License to Operate: In relation to the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Invited
YAMASHITA Tomoko
Chuo University International Law Research Workshop 2024.04
Legality of Investment: An Insight into the Social License to Operate
Tomoko YAMASHITA
2022 KITLA-JAIEL International Conference 2022.10
Theories of Responsibility in International Investment Law Invited
YAMASHITA Tomoko
GRANSHIP Shizuoka Convention & Arts Centre 2022.09
投資協定仲裁判断例の論点ごとの傾向分析（石戸信平（西村あさひ法律事務所弁護士）、卜部晃史（瓜生糸賀法律事務所弁護士）、猪瀬貴道（北里大学准教授）と共同発表） Domestic conference
山下 朋子
アジア国際法学会日本支部研究会第9回秋季研究会 2018.10
”Futility Exception” to the Local Remedies Rule in the Investor-State Arbitration: Interpretation of Treaty or Incorporation of Custom? International conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
MU-ASIL Work-in-Progress Conference 2017.02 Centre for the Study of Dispute Resolution at the University of Missouri School of Law in cooperation with the American Society of International Law Dispute Resolution and Midwest Interest Groups
Investors in the Formation of Customary International Law: Cross-Referencing the Local Remedies Rule of Diplomatic protection in the Investor-State Arbitration International conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
MILC-ESIL Conference-Workshop “The Role of International Organizations and Non-State Actors in the Formation of Customary International Law 2017.01 Manchester International Law Centre in cooperation with European Society of International Law International Organisations Interest Group
An Exception to the Local Remedies Rule-Futility Claim- Domestic conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
2016 Annual Meeting of Japan Society of International Law, Panel C Investment Law 2016.09
Humanitarian Phase of Diplomatic Protection: Case Studies of Disadvantaged Detainees’ Invited International conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
International Workshop “Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Protection of Human Rights: Building Integrated Networks between Academic, State, and Societal Actors” 2016.07 Tohoku Forum for Creativity, Tohoku University
Moral Injury in Investor-State Arbitration: Reconceptualization of Damages in International Responsibility Domestic conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
International Law Forum, Kyoto University 2016.04
Principle and Exceptions of Exhaustion of Local Remedies [in Japanese] Domestic conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
International Law Forum, Kyoto University 2016.02
Moral Injury in Investor-State Arbitration: A Theoretical Shift for Reparative Modalities of International Responsibility International conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
2nd Kobe Seminar on International Investment Law 2016 Asian challenges to international investment law: Viewing from internal and comparative perspectives 2016.01 Kobe University Graduate School of Law/Global Masters Programmes (GMAP) in Law
Moral Injury in Investor-State Arbitration International conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
2015 Kyoto-Seoul Joint Student Seminar in International Law 2015.12
Citizenship as a Basis for Compulsory Diplomatic Protection: Restricting Discretion by Global Constitutionalism International conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
Conference-Workshop “Taming Power in Times of Globalization: What Role for Human Rights? 2015.11 Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway
Moral Damage in Investor‐State Arbitration: A Substantial Change for Moral Injury to State International conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
The 5th Biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law 2015 2015.11 The Asian Society of International Law
Theory and Practice of Diplomatic Protection: State Responsibility in International Protection of Human Rights and Investment Invited Domestic conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
Young Scholar Workshop 2015.10 Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization & Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University
Case Study: ICJ, Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (Republic of Guinea v. Democratic Republic of the Congo) -Judgment of 30 November 2010 Domestic conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
78th Meeting of Jurisprudence Study Group 2015.06
Principles concerning Nationality in Diplomatic Protection [in Japanese] Domestic conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
International Law Forum, Kyoto University 2014.12
Waiver of Right of Diplomatic Protection-Restricting a State's Discretion [in Japanese] Domestic conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
International Law Forum, Kyoto University 2014.10
Reconstructing Sovereignty-'Judicial' Humanitarian Intervention Domestic conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
Annual Conference of Japanese Society of International Law 2013.10 Japanese Society of International Law
Responsibility to Protect as a basis for “Judicial” Humanitarian Intervention International conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
Conference for research students and early career scholars:“Beyond Responsibility to Protect: Towards Responsible Use of International Law?,” McCoubrey Centre for International Law, University of Hull 2013.07 McCoubrey Centre for International Law, University of Hull
Jus Cogens Norm invalidates “Waiver of Claims”? : Impact of Japanese War Compensation Cases to Asian Legal Order International conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
10th Asian Law Institute Conference 2013.05 Asian Law Institute
Jus Cogens Norm invalidates State Immunity? : International Restorative Justice and Japanese War Compensation Cases International conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
2013 ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum “International Law and Dispute Resolution: Challenges in the Asia Pacific” 2013.05 ILA Chinese (Taiwan) Branch
Bottom-up” Assessment of State’s Damages: Does the Legal Fiction Still Work in the case of Moral Damages Suffered by an Individual? International conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
7th International Graduate Legal Research Conference 2013.04 King’s College London
“Bottom-up” Assessment of State’s Damages: Does the Legal Fiction still work in the case of Moral Damages Suffered by an Individual? [in Japanese] Domestic conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
International Law Forum, Kyoto University 2013.03
Non-Territorial Phenomena in International Criminal Law: Dilemma between Effectiveness and Legitimateness for Restorative Justice International conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
10th Young International Lawyers Research Forum “A Lackland Law? Territory, Effectiveness and Jurisdiction in International and European Law 2013.01 Italian Society of International Law
Book Review：Sébastien Touzé, La protection des droits nationaux à l'étranger: Recherches sur la protection diplomatique, Pedone, 2007, 513 p. [in Japanese] Domestic conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
International Law Forum, Kyoto University 2011.03
A theory of transformation in diplomatic protection [in Japanese] Domestic conference
YAMASHITA Tomoko
International Law Forum, Kyoto University 2010.07
A Study of the Emergence of the Law of International Responsibility Regulating Investors' Conducts
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists 2027
A Study of the Emergence of the Law of International Responsibility Regulating Investors' Conducts
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists 2026
A Study of the Emergence of the Law of International Responsibility Regulating Investors' Conducts
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists 2025
Applicability of General Rules of Inter-State Law to the Global Legal Order
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists 2017.04
Damage and Responsibility in International Investment Arbitration: From Perspective of International Public Law
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows 2014.04
Diplomatic Protection as a Crossing of Intersection of International Human Rights Law and State Responsibility
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows 2009.04
The Role of Investors in the Formation of Customary International Legal Norms within the Current Global Legal Order
The Suntory Foundation Research Grant for Challenging Young Researchers 2016 2017.04
'Judicial' Humanitarian Intervention by Reconstructing Sovereignty-Protection of Individuals at the ICJ
The Konosuke Matsushita Memorial Foundation Research Grant 2013.09
Professional Studies in International Economic Law II
Introduction to Law
International Law and Environment
English Research Reading for 3rd and 4th year university students
Information literacy and research practice
Research Seminar for 3rd and 4th year university students (International Law)
International Law I
International Law II
Seminar for 1st year university students
The Constitution of Japan
Introduction to International Law