Biographical Note

Nobuo Hayashi

(Japan)

Since August 2006, Mr. Hayashi has been working as a Legal Advisor at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo Law Faculty. In this capacity, he performs research and provides content for a comprehensive judicial database developed and used by the International Criminal Court on international criminal law, international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

From August 2000 until June 2006, Mr. Hayashi served in the Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). As a member of the Legal Advisory Section, he specialised in the law of armed conflict relating to the conduct of hostilities. Mr. Hayashi's areas of responsibility also included jurisdictional issues, definition of offences, modes of liability and general public international law. He prepared independent opinion papers and Prosecution briefs on conflict classification, unlawful attacks on civilians and civilian objects, property destruction, crimes against humanity, genocide, command responsibility and general principles of criminal law. In January 2004, Mr. Hayashi joined the Prosecutions Division where he authored numerous submissions on matters of law, procedure and facts, such as the elements of crimes, joinder of indictments, protective measures for prospective Prosecution witnesses, jurisdiction, co-operation with States on judicial matters and fair-trial guarantees for accused persons. During his tenure at the ICTY, Mr. Hayashi worked on well over a dozen cases at their pre-trial, trial and appellate stages, including Kvočka et al., Vasijlević, Kordić and Čerkez, Stakić, Strugar, Hadžihasanović and Kubura and Šešelj.

Before joining the Tribunal, Mr. Hayashi was based in Geneva where he drafted the proceedings of an expert conference on multilateral treaty-making and confidential observations of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the workings of various human rights bodies. In New York, he performed research on diverse topics of contemporary international law and politics for the prestigious Columbia University Seminar on the Problem of Peace.

Mr. Hayashi has published in international humanitarian law, international criminal law and legal philosophy. He has also lectured at military academies, judicial training seminars, Red Cross conferences and universities. In September 2005, Mr. Hayashi was appointed Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations, International University of Japan.

Mr. Hayashi holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service in international relations, law and organisation, from Georgetown University (1995); a Diplôme d'études supérieures in international law, from the Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales (HEI) in Geneva (1998); and a Master of Laws, from the University of Cambridge (1999). He was also enrolled in the post-graduate School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University (1995-1996), the Hague Academy of International Law (1999) and the doctoral programme at HEI (1998-2004).