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Kento NISUGI (二杉 健斗) is a researcher in public international law at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), the University of Osaka (UOsaka), Osaka, Japan. Are you considering pursuing a Ph.D. or Master's degree in international law in Japan? Start your journey here! You can browse my research here.

Updates

2026.03.31 New case note on Smurfit v. Venezuela, a significantly revised version of my previous note in Japanese, has been accepted and is now available as an advance article in ICSID Review. For author manuscript, see here.

2026.03.20 New paper "The Discourse of Sustainable Development in International Investment Law: Why the Logic of 'Harmony' Breeds 'Conflict'" is coming soon in Journal of World Law.

2026.01.26 Made a presentation at a Japan-Taiwan symposium at Kyoto University, on "To Borrow or Not to Borrow: Uneasy Relationship Between the ICJ and Investment Tribunals" (9 Jan. 2026).

2025.12.23 Commented for The Asahi Simbun's article on the EU's Reparations Loan plan, dated 19 Dec.

2025.09.28 Made a presentation at the 3rd CJK Conference at Korea National Diplomacy Academy, Republic of Korea (26 September 2025), on "Investor-State Arbitration as an Anti-Bribery Regime?: Its Potentials and Limitations."

2025.08.30 Made a presentation at the Annual Conference of the Japanese Society of International Law held in Okayama (26 August 2025), on "The Current Statuts of International Law Education in Japan: An Empirical Analysis of Teaching Materials."

2025.07.13 Made a book review presentation on Merchants of Legalism and Making the World Safe for Investment on 28 June at Kyoto University.

2025.05.25 This site has been created.