Hiroyuki BANZAI has been a Professor of Law at Waseda University in Tokyo since April 2011, teaching public international law. His previous teaching experience includes Associate Professor of Surugadai University in Saitama and Waseda University. For his academic background, he received a Master of Laws (1998) and a Doctorate of Laws (2015) at Waseda University. He published a book, “Study on Responsibility for Internationally Wrongful Acts,” in 2015, in addition to several articles on international law. He was a member of the Wise Persons Group on Japan-EU Relationship: European Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in 2009. And he is a member of the Japanese Society of International Law; Japanese Association of World Law; International Law Association; Editorial Board of the Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law. He won the Adachi Mineichiro Award in 2016 for his contribution to the academia of international law.