SpecialityAssociate Professor, Graduate School of Security Studies, National Defense Academy of Japan

Yurika ISHII is an Associate Professor at the National Defense Academy of Japan, where she is in charge of law of the sea and public international law courses. Her areas of interest include general public international law, the law of the sea and international/transnational criminal law. She has previously been a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School and a Guest Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. She obtained an LL.B. from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law (Political Science Course), an LL.M. from Cornell Law School (with Rotary Ambassador Scholarship), and a Ph.D from the University of Tokyo.