2025

• Megumi Ochi, “Reparations to Future Generation before the ICC: Intergenerational Justice Accounts,” Journal of International Criminal Justice, 23(2), Jul 3, 2025

• Megumi Ochi, “Digital Evidence in Ukrainian War Crimes Trials: Effective Use and Challenges,” in Artem Galushko and Megumi Ochi (eds.), Collecting Cyber Evidence During Ongoing Hybrid Warfare: OSINT and Civilian-led Documentation of Core International Crimes, 273-297, Jul, 2025

• Megumi Ochi and Håvard Dagenborg, “Online War-Crimes Archives: A Call for a Universal Guideline,”Artem Galushko and Megumi Ochi (eds.), Collecting Cyber Evidence During Ongoing Hybrid Warfare: OSINT and Civilian-led Documentation of Core International Crimes, 215-244, Jul, 2025​

 

2024

• Megumi Ochi, “Towards a Transformative Reparation Process: The Communication Practice by the International Criminal Court,” Megumi Ochi, Renata Barbosa, Luyuan Bai (Eds.) Victim-Centred Criminal Justice, 217-243, Sep, 2024 

• Megumi Ochi. “Functions of the Gravity Threshold Before the ICC: Releasing the Prosecutor From the Gravity Constraint,” in Morten Bergsmo (ed.) Criteria for Prioritizing and Selecting Core International Crimes Case, Third edition, 445-470, 2024

• Megumi Ochi, “The Other Side of the Human Rights Approach to the Reparation for Victims of Armed Conflict: The Coalition of the Sword and Shield Function for Transformative Reparation,” Japanese Yearbook of International Law, 67 272-295, 2024

 

2023

• Megumi Ochi, “Impact on the International Cooperation with the International Criminal Court,” in Syuichi Furuya, Kuniko Ozaki, and Hitomi Takemura, eds, Global Impact of the Ukraine Conflict (Springer, 2023), pp. 409-430.

• Megumi Ochi, “International Human Rights Standards in the Accountability of the International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO: INTERPOL): Based on the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files (CCF) Review of Red Notices,” The Ritsumeikan journal of international studies, 36(2) (2023), pp. 125-142 (in Japanese).

• Megumi Ochi, “Influence of Legal Basis of International Criminal Tribunals on Personal Immunity: Examination of Proposed ‘Special Court for the Crime of Aggression’,” The Ritsumeikan Journal of International Studies, 36(1) (2023), pp. 31-52 (in Japanese).

• Megumi Ochi, “The Legal Consequences of Aggression: How to Hold the State and Leaders Responsible,” Jindo Kenkyu Journal 12 (2023), pp. 131-149 (in Japanese).

• Megumi Ochi, “Elements of the Local Osaka Ordinance that May be Relevant to Community Self-Regulation,” in Morten Bergsmo and Kishan Manocha, eds., Religion, Hateful Expression and Violence (Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, 2023), pp. 885-902.

• Megumi Ochi, “Is there an obligation not to cooperate with abolitionist States?: Noting the gaps in and potential of the Japan–EU Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters,” in Shin Matsuzawa, Anne Weyembergh and Irene Wieczorek, eds. Europe and Japan Cooperation in the Fight Against Cross-Border Crime: Challenges and Perspectives (Routledge, 2023), pp. 126-146.

• Megumi Ochi, “Taking Illegal Amnesties Seriously: Threefold Approach to the Admissibility Test before the International Criminal Court,” International Criminal Law Review 23(4) (2023), pp. 580-602.

• Megumi Ochi, “Expanding the Meaning of “Cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC)”: A Case in the Asia-Pacific Region,” The Ritsumeikan journal of international studies, 35(3) (2023), pp.  21-43 (in Japanese).

• Megumi Ochi, ‘The New Recipe for a General Principle of Law: Premise Theory to “Fill in the Gaps”’ Asian Journal of International Law, 13 (1) (2023), pp. 169-187.

 

2022

• Megumi Ochi, “Current Status and Issues of International Criminal Legal Assistance between Japan and Taiwan,” in Banzai Hiroyuki ed., Japan-Taiwan Economic Exchange and International Law (Seibundo, 2022), pp. 109-184 (in Japanese).

• Megumi Ochi, “The Principle of Orality and for Excluding Illegally Obtained Evidence in International Criminal Justice: Analyzing the Impact of the Premises of Core Crimes Prosecution on the General Principles of Criminal Procedure,” Ritsumeikan Journal of International Studies, 34(3) (2022), pp. 17-38 (in Japanese).

 

2021

• Megumi Ochi, “General Principles of Law for Internal and Inter-jurisdictional Issues: The Two Faces of Ne Bis In Idem,” Ritsumeikan Annual Review of International Studies, Vol. 20 (2021), pp. 57-76.

• Megumi Ochi, “Principles Regulating Concurrent Investigations and Prosecutions in International Criminal Justice: Analyzing the Impact of the Premises of Core Crimes Prosecution on the General Principles of Criminal Procedure,” Ritsumeikan journal of international studies, 34(2) (2021), pp. 61-80 (in Japanese).

• Megumi Ochi, “Large-Scale Environmental Destruction by Corporate Activity as A Core International Crime,” International Review of Penal Law, 91(2) (2021), pp. 375-400.

• Megumi Ochi, “The Principle of Prohibition of Trial in absentia in International Criminal Justice: Analyzing the Impact of the Premises of Core Crimes Prosecution to the General Principles of Criminal Procedure,” Ritsumeikan Journal of International Studies, 34(1) (2021), pp. 27-48 (in Japanese).

• Megumi Ochi, “The Regulatory Scope of the Chambers on Prosecutorial Discretion in the International Criminal Court: Decision Pursuant to Article 15 of the Rome Statute on the Authorisation of an Investigation into the Situation in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (5 March 2020),” Tokyo Review of International Law, No. 9 (2021), pp. 190-199 (in Japanese).

 

2019

• Megumi Ochi and Saori Matsuyama, “Ethnic Conflicts in Myanmar: The Application of Law on Non-International Armed Conflict,” in Suzannah Linton, Tim McCormack & Sandesh Sivakumaran(eds), Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

 

2018

• Megumi Ochi, “Amnesty and the Exception of ne bis in idem in International Criminal Justice ―Reflecting the Concretization of ‘Combating Impunity’―”, International Public Policy Studies, Vol. 23(1) (2018), pp. 75-96 (in Japanese).

• Megumi Ochi, “Priority and Conflict concerning the Obligations to Extradite for International Crimes,” Law Review of Kansai University, Vol. 68, No. 5 (2018), pp. 143-188 (in Japanese).

 

2017

• Megumi Ochi, “The Scope of Double Trial Prohibition in International Criminal Justice: A Research on the Contents of Ne Bis In Idem as a General International Law,” Nomos, No. 39 (2016), pp. 117-152 (in Japanese).

 

2016

• ​Megumi Ochi, “The International Criminal Court’s Reparation Procedure in the Lubanga Case: The Restorative Justice’s Demand and the Significance in International Law,” International Public Policy Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2016), pp. 31-46 (in Japanese).

• Megumi Ochi, “Gravity Threshold before the International Criminal Court: An Overview of the Court's Practice,” ICD Brief 19 (January 2016), pp. 1-16.

 

2015

• Megumi Ochi, “Institutional Challenges in the Prosecutorial Regime of the International Criminal Court (ICC): From the Perspective of Redress for Violations of the Suspect’s Rights,” Journal of International Law and Diplomacy, Vol. 114, No. 4 (2015), pp. 123-148 (in Japanese).

 

2014

• Megumi Ochi, “A Pluralistic Approach to Criminal Justice in Transitional Justice: Two Decades of International, Semi-International and National War Crimes Prosecution in the former Yugoslavia,” Journal of Multicultural Innovation, No. 1 (2014), pp. 141-168 (in Japanese).

• Megumi Ochi, “Prosecutor v. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (International Criminal Court (Pre-Trial Chamber I) Decision on the Admissibility, 31 May 2013),” Osaka Law Review, Vol. 64, No. 1 (2014), pp. 237-250 (in Japanese).

 

2013

• Megumi Ochi, “Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) in the UN-led Peacekeeping Operations: The UN’s Role as an Employer and Regulator,” International Public Policy Studies, Vol. 18, No. 1 (2013), pp. 95-111.

• Megumi Ochi, “The ne bis in idem Effect of ICC Judgment towards National Trials: The Obstructive and Promotional Factors in a Vertical Relationship” Osaka Law Review, Vol. 63, No. 1&2 (2013), pp. 127-148; 261-272 (in Japanese).