Board of Advisors

Justice Iwasawa who has an LLB degree from the University of Tokyo, an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, an S.J.D. from the University of Virginia, and an Honorary Doctorate from Osaka City University, specializes on matters related to an interface between International and National Law, International Human Rights Law, International Economic Law, International Dispute Resolution and Jurisdictional Immunities.

In July 2018, Justice Yuji Iwasawa was appointed a judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).  At present he is also a Vice-Chair of the International Law Association, a member of the Science Council of Japan, and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Law Documents. He was a professor in the Department of International Relations in the University of Tokyo and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law in Osaka City University.

Prior to his election to the ICJ, he was a Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law in the University of Tokyo in Japan. A former judge and the Vice-President of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal, he has served as a member at the Permanent Group of Experts under the WTO Agreement on Subsidies,  and also as member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and the President of the Japanese Society of International Law. 

Tania Voon, who completed her Master of Laws at Harvard Law School and her PhD in Law at the University of Cambridge, is currently a Professor at Melbourne Law School at The University of Melbourne. A former Legal Officer of the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO), she has previously practiced law with Mallesons Stephen Jaques and the Australian Government Solicitor. In addition to her current role, Tania has taught law at the National University of Singapore, Georgetown University, the University of British Columbia, to name a few. 

Having published widely in the areas of public international law and international economic law, she is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of International Arbitration, and Australian Year Book of International Law, and Co-Editor of the Oxford University Press Series on International Economic Law. Besides this, she has also provided expert advice and training to entities such as the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the WTO, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. 

Pär Hallström is a Swedish legal writer and professor emeritus of Law at UmeåUniversity who graduated from Pantheon-Sorbonne University with a Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures and holds a doctorate in law from Stockholm University. Currently working as a partner at Advoka Tfirman Alsheimer, he holds membership in The Swedish Association of European Law and The Danish Association of European Law. 

Hallström is known to have introduced EC constitutional law in Sweden with his work “European Community and Political Union, 1987”, and WTO-law with his book “The GATT Panels and the Formation of International Trade Law, 1994”.  Moreover, his work experience includes a stint an associate Professor at the Institute of European Market Law and the Copehagen Business School and a Research Fellow at the University of Stockholm where he has been serving in the said capacity since 1988. 

Tomer Broude is the Sylvan M. Cohen Chair in Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law and Department of International Relations, Academic Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights, and Former Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law. He specializes in public international law and international economic law, particularly international trade and investment, human rights, dispute settlement, development and cultural diversity. One of the founders of the Society of International Economic Law and a former member of its Executive Council, he has also worked with the WTO's Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation, wherein he is involved in the training of government officials from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia in WTO law, and also acts as a consultant governments, corporations and nongovernmental organizations.

An author and editor of several books and articles that have appeared in a number of Law Reviews and journals, he served as co-chair of the International Economic Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law from 2007-09. In 2011, Mr Broude was added to the indicative list of governmental and non-governmental panelists to hear WTO disputes by the World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Body.