Staff

Director

Yasunobu Sato

Yasunobu SATO is Professor at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate Program on Human Security (HSP). He holds a Ph.D in law (University of London 2000), LLM (Harvard 1989), and BA in political science (Waseda University 1982). As Attorney-at-Law (admitted in Tokyo in 1984 and in New York in 1991), he practiced law in Japan, the United States and Europe and is currently a part time advisor to the law firm Nagashima, Ohno and Tsunematsu. After working on refugee protection, peace keeping/preacebuilding and law and judicial reform as a legal official with international organizations (UNHCR as legal officer in Canberra, Australia in 1991-92; UNTAC as Human Rights Officer in Cambodia in 1992-93; and EBRD as Counsel in London in 1995-97), he joined the Graduate School of International Developments at Nagoya University in 1999 and then moved to the University of Tokyo in 2005.
He has represented the Peace-building Study Group since 2002 and been a Council member of the Centre of International Assistance for Judicial Reform, the Committee of International Relations, Japan Federation of Bar Associations since 2006. Since April 2009, he has been managing Project of Compilation and Documentation on Refugees and Migrants (CDR).

Related Links

• 「人間の安全保障」プログラム
• 長島大野常松法律事務所
• 「人間の安全保障」フォーラム
• 平和構築研究会

Research activities, treatise

• Yasunobu Sato. 2015, “Human Security Approach to Human Rights Due Diligence: Why business needs human security index,” 4 Journal of Human Security Studies 2 Autumn (査読有) 87-108.Yasunobu Sato. 2015 “NuclearPower and Human Security: Lessons from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear PowerPlant’s Accident,” Patrick Keyzer, et al (eds.),Access to International Justice, Routledge, London and New York, 241-254.
• 佐藤安信=山本哲史 2014 難民の権利　（J. Hathaway 2005 The Rights of Refuges under International Lawの抄訳とその解説書、日本評論社
• 佐藤安信=墓田桂 2014第3部第11章「[問題提起]ビジネスと難民支援『人間の安全保障志向のビジネスの可能性』」墓田桂ほか編著『難民・強制移動研究のフロンティア』現代人文社、365-372頁
• Yasunobu　Sato 2012 “Human Security and Peace-Building Paradigm: A Japanese Experience and Perspective,” in Nishikawa, Jun, et al (eds.) Economic and Policy Lessons　from Japan to Developing Countries, Palgrave Macmillan, pp 255-268.
• Yasunobu Sato, “Human security and disaster: lessons from the great eastern Japanese earthquake” in William T. Tow, David Walton and Rikki Kersten (eds) (2013) New Approaches to human　security in Asia, Ashgate 79-92, Ashgate.
• 佐藤安信 2011「人間の安全保障」のための法整備支援：カンボジアの事例再考　国際開発研究 第20巻２号、p 79-92.
• 佐藤安信　2010 「ブイ・ムアン事件」渡邊彰悟外編『日本における難民訴訟の発展と現在』現代人文社26-37.