(Ms) Hitomi Takemura has been an associate professor of international law at the Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan since April 2016. She received her Ph.D. at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway in June 2008. The thesis was published by Springer as a book entitled International Human Right to Conscientious Objection to Military Service and Individual Duties to Disobey Manifestly Illegal Orders later in 2008. She also has an LL.M. in public international law and international criminal law specialization from Leiden University, Netherlands, and an LL.M. in international law from Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. Her recent research interests include the prosecutorial discretion of international criminal justice and indicators of legitimacy of international law and international criminal justice.
| 2005-2008 | Ph.D. course, the Irish Centre of Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland) Ph.D. in law Thesis: Rights and Duties to Disobey Manifestly Illegal Orders under International Law (passed PhD defence on 8 December 07; conferring 17 June 08) |
| 2003–2004 | LL.M. course, Leiden University, Leiden (Netherlands) LL.M. Public International Law (specialization in International Criminal Law Thesis: Contemporary Relationships between the Doctrine of Superior Responsibility and the Defence of Superior Orders |
| 2003-2008 | Ph.D. course (left without degree) Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (Japan) |
| 2001-2003 | LL.M. course, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (Japan) LL.M., Public International Law, Thesis: The limit and scope of individual criminal responsibility in international criminal law—from the standpoint of the superior order defense and the doctrine of superior responsibility— |
| 1997–2001 | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo (Japan) B.A. (German) |
| 1994–97 | Tokyo Metropolitan Kokusai High School, Tokyo (Japan) International Course |
| 1/09/2022 | Professor, Public International Law, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (Japan) |
| 1/04/2016 | Associate Professor, Public International Law, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (Japan) |
| 1/10/2012 | Associate Professor, Public International Law, School of Foreign Studies, Aichi Prefectural University, Aichi (Japan) |
| 1/04/2009 | Associate Professor, Public International Law, Kyushu International University, Fukuoka (Japan) |
| 01/04/2008 | Assistant Professor, Public International Law, Kyushu International University, Fukuoka (Japan) |
| 31/08/2005 | Law Clerk, Legal Advisory Section, Office of the Prosecutor |
| 01/03/2005 | International Criminal Court, The Hague (Netherlands). |
| 14/12/2004 | Legal Intern, The Appeals Chamber |
| 01/07/2004 | International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, The Hague (Netherlands). |
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