Tetsuya Toyoda

Tetsuya Toyoda is the deputy director of the Institute for Asian Studies and Regional Collaboratoin at Akita International University (AIU) in Japan. He has been teaching international law and international organisations at AIU since 2007, with an interruption from August 2013 to April 2014 for his fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at Washington, D.C. in the U.S. Before joining AIU, he was a project researcher at the University of Tokyo (2006-2007) and an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1994-2000). He graduated from the University of Tokyo and obtained his Diplôme d'études approfondies from the University of Paris II-Panthéon-Assas in France. He is a visiting professor at the Far Eastern Federal University in Russia since October 2012, and also has given lectures and talks at Wuhan University (2009), Moscow State University (2011), Seoul National University (2012), UC Berkeley (2013), Georgetown University (2013), Vietnamese National University of Humanities at Hanoi (2013), National University of Laos (2013), Hong Kong Baptist University (2014), Stanford University (2014) and the University of New South Wales (2015). Having authored a book on Theory and Politics of the Law of Nations (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 2011), he is now interested in the 19th-century development of international law as a result of contacts between the European and non-European civilizations. He also takes much interest in the future architecture of East Asian / Asia-Pacific economic integration.