Nobuo Hayashi
Universitetslektor Docent
- Nobuo.Hayashi@fhs.se
- +46 8-55342663
- Department of International and Operational Law
- International Law
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Nobuo Hayashi is Associate Professor (Docent) and Senior Lecturer at the Department of 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-five 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. In 2023, he published a co-edited anthology entitled “Honest Errors? Combat Decision-Making 75 Years After the Hostage Case” from Asser/Springer. His single-author monograph, “Military Necessity: The Art, Morality and Law of War”, was published from Cambridge University Press in 2020.
Major positions previously 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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Conclusion: The Hostage Case, Present Day Knowledge, and Future ImplicationsPart of Honest Errors? Combat Decision-Making 75 Years After the Hostage Case
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Honest Errors in Combat Decision-Making : State of Our Knowledge 75 Years after the Hostage CasePart of Honest Errors? Combat Decision-Making 75 Years After the Hostage Case
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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