Nobuo Hayashi
Associate Senior Lecturer
International Law
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Department of Political Science and Law
Centre for International and Operational Law

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Nobuo Hayashi is an Associate Senior Lecturer at the Centre for International and Operational Law, Swedish Defence University. He also holds visiting professorships at the UN-mandated University for Peace (San José, Costa Rica) and the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (Turin, Italy). Nobuo specialises in international humanitarian law, international criminal law, jus ad bellum and international weapons law. He has twenty years of experience performing advanced research, providing expert advice, teaching postgraduate students and training senior professionals in these areas. Nobuo’s work has been cited in international war crimes trials and diplomatic negotiations. His latest monograph, Military Necessity: The Art, Morality and Law of War, was published from Cambridge University Press in 2020.
Major positions held: Senior Legal Advisor, International Law and Policy Institute (Oslo, Norway); Visiting Professor, International University of Japan; Researcher, Peace Research Institute Oslo; and Legal Officer, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Degrees earned: PhD (Leiden), LLM (Cantab.), DÉS (Graduate Institute/Geneva), BSFS (Georgetown).
Latest publications
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Weapons of Mass DestructionPart of Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights
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General Principles of International Humanitarian LawPart of The Handbook of International Humanitarian Law
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Is the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty Accessible to Umbrella States?Part of Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law - Volume IV : Human Perspectives on the Development and Use of Nuclear Energy
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