The following is what I have recently found about my ancestral journey by the results of a DNA test administered by the Genographic Project https://www.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/, a joint project by the National Geographic Society and IBM, whose goal is to analyze human DNA samples and understand the routes which human populations took. After submitting my DNA…… Continue reading My Ancestral Traces

Murase Comments on General Principles of Law (GPL) at ILC (2019-) Note: I made comments on the topic of customary international law six times over the years at ILC, which are reproduced below. These are the original manuscripts. They are reproduced in the ILC summary records, which are however shortened versions of the original statements.…… Continue reading Murase Comments on General Principles of Law at ILC (2019-)

Murase Comments on Jus Cogens at ILC (2016-2019) Note: I made comments on the topic of jus cogens four times over the years at ILC, which are reproduced below. These are the original manuscripts. They are reproduced in the ILC summary records, which are however shortened versions of the original statements. I often had to…… Continue reading Murase Comments on Jus Cogens at ILC (2016-2019)

Murase Comments on Customary International Law at ILC Note: I made comments on the topic of customary international law six times over the years at ILC, which are reproduced below. These are the original manuscripts. They are reproduced in the ILC summary records, which are however shortened versions of the original statements. I often had…… Continue reading Murase Comments on Customary International Law at ILC (2012-2018)

Obituaries at ILC (Professor Alexander Yankov) Shinya Murase We were all deeply saddened to learn of the death of Professor Alexander Yankov on 17 October 2019. Professor Yankov (22 June 1924 – 2019) was a prominent jurist, a successful diplomat and a brilliant scholar. He was a former member of the UN International Law Commission…… Continue reading Obituaries at ILC (Professor Alexander Yankov)

I retired from Sophia University in Tokyo in March 2014 at the mandatory age of 70. Immediately afterwards, I started teaching in Beijing, and I did not have time to worry about my post retirement then. But this time, it is so different. I gave my farewell lecture at Peking University in late September this…… Continue reading Retirement Syndrome