A/HRC/33/3 Kaoru Obata (Japan) Current academic appointment 2002-Present Professor of International Law, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University Current university academic appointments 2011-2013 Vice Dean, Graduate School of Law 2011-2013 Member of the Education and Research Council 2014-Present Director of the Center for Asian Legal Exchange Course currently taught International Law, International Law Seminar, International Law of Human Supervision Rights, Ph.D. Previous academic appointments Kobe University of Mercantile Marine, JAPAN Lecturer, then Associate Professor of Law, 1987-1993 Faculty of Law, Kanazawa University, JAPAN Associate Professor of International Law, 1993-1997 School of Law, Nagoya University, JAPAN Associate Professor of International Law, 1997-2002 Legal consulting activities 1999 Advocate for the Japanese Government in the Southern Bluefin Tuna Cases, Requests for Provisional Measures Education LL.M. Kyoto University, 1984 LL.D. Kyoto University, 2016 National academic services 2006-Present Member of the Council, Japanese Association of International Human Rights Law 2008-Present Member of the Council, Japanese Association of World Law 2016-Present Member of the Council, Japanese Society of International Law International academic service 2006-2012 Member of the Committee on Rights of Indigenous Peoples, International Law Association 2015-Present Member of the Study Group on Individual Responsibility in International Law, International Law Association 13