越智 萌｜Megumi Ochi
刑事法から世界を見る｜Watching the World through Criminal Law
越智 萌｜Megumi Ochi
刑事法から世界を見る｜Watching the World through Criminal Law
国際刑事司法に関する学術研究紹介ページ
Academic research on International Criminal Justice
Works
Research books, articles, interviews.
CV
CURRICULUM VITAE as of 5 January 2024
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Megumi OCHI
Associate Professor of International Law, International Criminal Justice
Graduate School of International Relations
College of International Relations
Ritsumeikan University
Kinugasa Campus, 56-1 Kitamachi Tojiin Kita-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto 603 8577 JAPAN
E-Mail: mtr19136@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp / Tel : +81(0)75 465 1211 / http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/ir/
INTRODUCTION
Dr. Megumi Ochi, an academic and legal professional specializing in International Law and International Criminal Justice, currently serves as an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations, College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. Beyond her academic roles, since September 2014, Dr. Ochi has been an active participant in academic networking and cooperation, contributing as a member of the Young Penalist Committee of the International Association of Penal Law (AIDP). Additionally, she holds the position of Senior Fellow at Case Matrix Network (CMN) since October 2016.
Dr. Ochi's recent research has been dedicated to the examination of philosophical and procedural issues in international criminal justice, transformative justice, sources, and standards in international criminal law, as well as domestic war crimes trials and the utilization of digital evidence. Her work includes publications such as her second monograph: The Rationales of International Criminal Procedural Law: Identifying the Premises in International Cooperation (in Japanese) and articles published from peer-reviewed journals such as International Criminal Law Review and Asian Journal of International Law.
EDUCATION
03/2015
Ph.D. in Law, Osaka University (Graduate School of law)
Legum Doctor (Osaka, Japan)
08/2012
LL.M., Leiden University
Advanced LL.M. in Public International Law (Leiden, the Netherlands)
03/2011
Master of Arts, Osaka University (Osaka School of International Public Policy)
Master of International Public Policy (Osaka, Japan)
03/2009
Bachelor of Arts, Osaka University of Foreign Studies
Bachelor of Language and Cultural Studies (Specialization in International Relations, Swedish, Spanish) (Osaka, Japan)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Megumi Ochi, The Rationales of International Criminal Procedural Law: Identifying the Premises in International Cooperation (Shinzansya, 2022) (in Japanese)
Renata Barbosa, Francesco Mazzacuva, and Megumi Ochi, eds., Contemporary Challenges and Alternatives to International Criminal Justice (Maklu, 2022).
Megumi Ochi, The System of International Procedural Criminal Law: The Premise Theory and the Principle of Ne Bis In Idem (Shinzansya, 2020) (in Japanese).
Articles
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, TimMcCormack & 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).
Book review
Megumi Ochi, “Sato Hiromi, Multilayered Structures of International Criminal Law (Springer, 2021)” Journal of International Law and Diplomacy, 121(1) (2022), pp. 96-100 (in Japanese),
Megumi Ochi, “David M. Crane, Leila N. Sadat and Michael P. Scharf, The Founders: Four Pioneering Individuals Who Launched the First Modern-Era International Criminal Tribunals,” (22) (2021), pp. 193-197.
Megumi Ochi, “Mohamed Elewa Badar, The Concept of Mens Rea in International Criminal Law: The Case for a Unified Approach,” Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 11 (2013), pp. 933-936.
Translation
Keiko Ko and Megumi Ochi, “Claus Kreß and Leonie von Holtzendorff, ‘The Kampala Compromise on the Crime of Aggression’,” Journal of Law and Economics, Mie University, Vol. 29, No. 2 (2012), pp. 47-77.
Ph.D. Dissertation
Megumi Ochi, “The Regulation on the Overlap of Criminal Proceedings in the International Criminal Justice,” Graduate School of Law, Osaka University (2015).
LL.M. Dissertation
Megumi Ochi, “The Function of the Concept of Gravity in the Selection Process before the International Criminal Court” Grotius Centre, Leiden University (2012).
MA Dissertation
Megumi Ochi, “The Effect of ne bis in idem to Domestic Trials after the Judgment by International Criminal Courts: Judgment by ICTR and Rwandan Domestic Court regarding Bagambiki Case,” Graduate School of Osaka University (2011), Best Thesis
PRESENTATIONS
(in English)
2023
Megumi Ochi, “The Revival of General Principles of Law Recognized by ‘Civilized Nations’: Internationally Recognized Human Rights before the International Criminal Court “, Victim-centered International Law, Jan 7, 2023, Ritsumeikan University
2022
Megumi Ochi, “Elements of the Local Osaka Ordinance that May be Relevant to Community Self-Regulation,” Religion, Hateful Expression and Violence, Apr 9, 2022, The Centre for International Law Research and Policy (CILRAP).
Megumi Ochi, “International Norms to End Impunity and the New “Transformative” Alternatives Japan and Lebanon: Trajectories of Reconstruction, Mar 8, 2022, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut (AUB).
Megumi Ochi, “The Changing Function of the “Internationally Recognized Human Rights” at the International Criminal Court,” Research seminar: At the Juncture of International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law, APU House, Beppu, Oita, Japan (Jan 8, 2022).
2020
Megumi Ochi, “Large-Scale Environmental Destruction by Corporate Activity as a Core International Crime “, Hakubi Day 2020, on zoom (Aug 30, 2020).
2019
Megumi Ochi, “Large Scale Destruction of Environment as Core International Crime,” XX International Congress of Penal Law 2019 - Criminal Justice and Corporate Business, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali "Guido Carli" (Rome) (Nov 15, 2019).
Megumi Ochi, “Supplementing the Pitfalls of Japan-EU MLA Agreement on Death Penalty,” Core 2 Core Program Workshop: Current Problems of EU-Japan Cooperation in Criminal Matters, Waseda University (Tokyo) (Oct 31, 2019).
Megumi Ochi, "A Pragmatic Approach to the General Principles of International Criminal Law?: The Role of Asian Laws,” Asian Society of International Law, 7th Biennial Conference Manila, Philippines (Novotel Manila Araneta Center, 23 August 2019).
2018
Megumi Ochi, 'The Concept of International Procedural Criminal Law: Internationality of Institution or Jurisdiction Ratione Materiae?', the 6th AIDP Symposium for Young Penalists, “Revisiting the International vs Ordinary Crime Divide: A Turning Point for International Criminal Law?” (Kyoto University, 22 August 2018).
Megumi Ochi, "The Concept of International Procedural Criminal Law (IPCL)," 2018 Kyoto-NCCU Joint Student Seminar in International Law (Kyoto University, 12 June 2018).
Megumi Ochi, “International Procedural Criminal Law as a Legal System" Young Scholars Workshop on International Law with Professor Jean d'Aspremont (Kyoto University, 13 May 2018).
2017
Megumi Ochi, “A Modern Categorization of International Crimes,” 2017 Kyoto-SNU Joint Student Seminar in International Law (Kyoto University, Japan, 15 Dec 2017).
Megumi Ochi, “The Element of State Involvement in Crimes against Humanity: A Dichotomization of the Crime, Seminar on International Law (Kyoto University, Japan, 2 Nov 2017).
Megumi Ochi, The Protected Interests of International Core Crimes and their Impacts on States’ Obligations, 2017 NCCU-Kyoto Joint Seminar in International Law (National Chengchi University, Taiwan, 31 Oct 2017).
Megumi Ochi, Crystallizing Conception of ‘Fight against Impunity’ since Rome Statute: Interrelationship between Human Rights Courts and International Criminal Courts on Amnesty, International Conference: Righting Wrongs: Enforcing Human Rights, Administering International Criminal Justice (University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, 10 Mar 2017).
Megumi Ochi, Regulation of the ‘Community of Courts’: The Potential of General Principles of International Criminal Law, Grotius Dialogue (Leiden University, 6 Feb 2017).
2016
Megumi Ochi, Diversity in Compliance with the International Criminal Courts, Seminar on international law and politics, Domestic Compliance with International Human Rights and Criminal Tribunals (Kyoto University, 6 Oct 2016).
Megumi Ochi, New Dimension to the General Principles of International Criminal Law: A Potential Regulator for Inter-jurisdictional Issues, 2016 CUHK-Kyoto Joint Student Seminar in International Law (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 18 Mar 2016).
2015
Megumi Ochi, Different Procedures for Different Crimes: The Multi-layered International Obligations to Extradite, 2015 Kyoto-Seoul Joint Student Seminar in International Law (Kyoto University, Japan, 23 Dec 2015).
Megumi Ochi, Amnesties in the International Criminal Justice, STL-Kyoto University Joint Student Seminar in International Law (Peking University, Shenzhen, 20 May 2015).
(in Japanese)
2023
Megumi Ochi, “Consideration of the Basis for the Establishment of Special Courts and the Characteristics of their Authority,” International Law Seminar, Apr 15, 2023, Kyoto University
Megumi Ochi, “The Position of War Crimes Trials in the Midst of Ongoing Hostilities: Trilemma of War Crimes Trials in Ukraine,” 2022 International Humanitarian Law and Criminal Law Study Group Public Webinar Part 2 “War Crimes and Their Punishment in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict”, Feb 18, 2023
2022
Hiroko Kawaguchi and Megumi Ochi, “Toward Reparations for Victims After the Northern Uganda Conflict: Potential for Transformational Justice Through the International Criminal Court,” Japan Association for African Studies, May 22, 2022
2021
Megumi Ochi, “Independency of the International Criminal Procedure: The Impact of the "Internationally Recognized Human Rights" on the Interpretation of Jurisdictional Rules,” Japan Association of Penal Law, zoom, May 30, 2021.
2019
Megumi Ochi, “Legal Issues Concerning the Activation of the Crime of Aggression in the International Criminal Court: Form the Perspectives of the Law of Treaty,” Kobe Gakuin University (Hyogo) (Sep 5, 2019).
2018
Megumi Ochi, “Priority and Conflict concerning the Obligations to Extradite for International Crimes, Seminar on Criminal Law” Kansai University, Osaka (10 Jan 2018)
2017
Megumi Ochi, The Theory and Practice on Evidence as Reflected in the ICC Judgments and Decisions (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, 7 Sep 2017).
2016
Megumi Ochi, Scope of Ne Bis in Idem Effect in International Criminal Justice, Japan Society of Criminal Law (Kansai University, Japan, 31 Jul 2016).
2015
Megumi Ochi, The Nature of the International Criminal Court's Reparation System: the Restorative Justice's Perspective in Observed in the Lubanga Appeal's Judgment, 27th Annual Conference of the International Human Rights Law Association Interest Group (Osaka Sangyo University, 22 Nov 2015).
2014
Megumi Ochi, International Law Framework on ‘Evidence Gathering' in Abroad, 92nd Criminal Law Society of Japan Annual Conference: Workshop (Doshisha University, 18 May 2014).
2013
Megumi Ochi, The Rights of the Suspects in the International Criminal Court Regime: In Vertical and Complementary Relationship with States, 116th Japan Society of International Law Annual Conference (Shizuoka Convention & Arts Center "GRANSHIP", 14 Oct 2013).
WORK EXPERIENCES
04/2020-present
Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University
Associate Professor
10/2019-03/2020
Hakubi Center, Kyoto University
Assistant Professor
04/2019-09/2019
Hyogo Earthquake Memorial 21st Century Research Institute
Senior Researcher
10/2018-03/2019
Graduate School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University, Japan
Visiting Researcher
04/2015-09/2018
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan
Research Fellow (SPD) (Kyoto University, Japan)
04/2013-03/2015
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan
Research Fellow (DC2) (Osaka University, Japan)
03/2011-07/2011
Osaka University, Japan
Research Assistant (International Humanitarian Law and Criminal Law Project)
OTHER ACTIVITIES
09/2023
International Association of Penal Law (AIDP) 11th AIDP Young Penalists Symposium In Kyoto Victim-Centered Criminal Justice, Sep, 2023 - Sep, 2023
Chief of the Organizing Committee
06/2023
The International Criminal Court Moot Competition
Judge, memorial and oral round (The Hague, the Netherlands)
01/2022
Reviewer for Journal of International Criminal Justice
Reviewer
06/2021
Eighth International AIDP Symposium for Young Penalists CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES AND ALTERNATIVES TO INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Member of the Organizing Committee
07/2019
Reviewer for Leiden Journal of International Law
Reviewer
08/2018
The 6th AIDP Symposium for Young Penalists
Chief of the Organizing Committee
04/2018
The International Criminal Court Moot Competition
Judge, memorial round
02/2017
The Jessup Moot Court Competition
Judge, Japan round (Doshisya University, Japan)
10/2016-present
Case Matrix Network (CMN)
https://www.casematrixnetwork.org/cmn-advisers-and-fellows/cmn-fellows/v
Senior Fellow
02/2016
ICC Legal Tools database editing team
https://www.legal-tools.org/en/what-are-the-icc-legal-tools/
Editing Member
10/2015
Kyoto University Academic Day 2015
Poster (Kyoto University, Japan)
05/2015
Specialization Course in International Criminal Law for Young Penalist, International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC)
Participants (Siracusa, Italy)
09/2014-
present
Young Penalist Committee of the International Association of Penal Law
http://ypc.youngpenalists.org/p/our-team.html
Committee member
09/2013
Participating the International Association of Penal Law XIX International Congress of Penal Law
National reporter (Helsinki, Finland and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
03/2013
Field Research Project in Serbia, Bosnia Herzegovina, and Kosovo
Interviewing with judges and prosecutors-Research grant from Osaka University
04/2012-09/2012
International Criminal Court (Pre-Trial Chamber II)
Intern (The Hague, the Netherlands)
04/2011
International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition
Speaker, Osaka University team (The Hague, the Netherlands)
LECTURING EXPERIENCE
04/2021-Present
International Law (in Japanese)
Faculty of Integrated Human Science, Kyoto University
04/2021-Present
International Relations (in Japanese)
Faculty of Integrated Human Science, Kyoto University
04/2021-present
International Human Rights (English)
Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University
04/2020-present
Advanced Seminar (English)
College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University
04/2020-present
Seminar on International Relations (Japanese)
College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University
04/2020-present
Global Studies Seminar (English)
College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University
10/2020-present
Peace and Conflict Studies (English)
College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University
04/2020-present
Global Simulation Gaming (English)
College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University
04/2020-present
Introductory Seminar (Japanese)
College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University
04/2020-present
International Organizations (English)
College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University
10/2019-03/2019
International Organizations (English)
College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University (Part-time)
10/2018-03/2019
International Law (English)
International College, Osaka University (Part-time)
04/2018-03/2019
Introduction to International Law (English), International Law (Japanese), International Institutional Law (Japanese)
Faculty of International Relations, Kwansei Gakuin University (Part-time)
04/2018-09/2018
International Law (Japanese)
Fuculty of Law, Kindai University (Part-time)
04/2004-present
Introduction to Law (Japanese)
Faculty of Law, Kansai University (Part-time)
04/2017
Lexsitus, ICC Statute Article 20 (Centre for International Law Research and Policy (CILRAP)) (English) https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/20-ochi/
Providing online audio-visual lecture
09/2017
International Law (Japanese)
Faculty of Foreign Language, Aichi Prefectural University (skype lecture)
09/2014
International Criminal Law and Procedure (Japanese)
Graduate School of International Public Policy, Osaka University and International Committee of the Red Cross
ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS
10/2009-present
Japanese Society of International Law
05/2013-present
International Association of Penal Law (AIDP) – Member of Young Penalist Committee
05/2013-present
Criminal Law Society of Japan
RESEARCH GRANTS & PROJECTS
11/2023-
Reparative Design for Creating the Future from the Present of Post-war Society: Towards Transformative Justice Linking the Global and the Local
Sub-Lead Researcher, 2023 Research Grant Program, Toyota Foundation
04/2023-03/2029
A Study on "Damage" of Core Crime: Who Should Be Remedied by International Criminal Justice?
Lead Researcher, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
04/2022-03/2024
Transformative Justice in International Criminal Justice
Lead Researcher, Research Grant, Ritsumeikan University Institute of Humanities, Human and Social Sciences
04/2019-03/2023
Legal Character and Contents of "Human Rights Standards" in International Criminal Law
Lead Researcher, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
10/2018-03/2021
Japan-Taiwan Exchange Programme of Young Scholars
Researcher, Research Grants, Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association
04/2015-03/2019
Systematic Categorization of International Criminal Substantive Law: From the Procedural and Jurisdictional Perspective
Lead Researcher, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow, The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
04/2013-05/2015
Principles of Criminal Law in the ‘Community of Courts’: Legal Regulation of the Concurrence of International Criminal Justice Bodies
Lead Researcher, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow, The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
Activities
2023年6月6日
国際刑事裁判所（ICC）模擬裁判大会の裁判官を務めました
ICCと国際弁護士協会（IBA）が主催するICC模擬裁判大会（ハーグ）で裁判官役を務めました。
2022年4月
ロシア・ウクライナ危機に関して複数のメディアに情報提供しました
・朝日放送テレビ「おかえり」（2022/04/05）
・報道ランナー（2022/04/06）
・プーチン逮捕の現実味は?ウクライナ市民が罪に問われる可能性も?「戦争犯罪」「ジェノサイド」の基礎知識 （Abema Times）（2022/04/06）
・ロシアの責任 捜査はできるが…(読売中高生新聞)（2022/04/15）
・「戦争犯罪」「ジェノサイド」とは何か その定義や“罪と罰”を解説（ShiRUto）（2022/04/30）
2019年11月15日
XX International Congress of Penal Law 2019 - Criminal Justice and Corporate Business
国際刑法協会で研究報告をしました。
Megumi Ochi, "Large Scale Destruction of Environment as Core International Crime," XX International Congress of Penal Law 2019 - Criminal Justice and Corporate Business (Rome, Italy (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali "Guido Carli"), 15 November 2019).
2018年4月1日
LEXSITUS 講師
Centre for International Law Research and Policyが提供するオンライン講義LEXSITUSで、ICC規程20条の講師を担当しました。
→レクチャーを見る
2016年1月30日
オランダ・ハーグ 国際弁護士協会年次会議に参加
オランダ・ハーグの平和宮において行われた国際弁護士協会による国際刑事法に関する年次会議「現代の戦争の法的挑戦」に参加しました。
また、国際刑事裁判所の新庁舎を訪問し、バグボ事件及びンタガンダ事件を傍聴しました。
2014年8月31日
ブラジル・リオデジャネイロ 国際刑法学会第19回国際会議に参加
2014年8月31日から9月6日まで、リオで行われた国際刑法学会第19回国際会議に、Young Penalistとして参加しました。
テーマはサイバー犯罪で、主に国際刑事法の部会に出席しました。
また、ブラジルのスラム（ファベーラ）の見学ツアーにも参加しました。
2012年7月
アウシュビッツ・ビルケナウを訪問
アウシュビッツ強制収容所・ビルケナウ強制収容所の記念博物館を訪問しました。
2023年6月5日
国際刑事裁判所（ICC）にてインタビューを行いました
ICCを訪問し、被害者参加賠償局（VPRS）のスタッフらと被害者とのコミュニケーションに関するインタビューを行いました。
2021年1月22日
ハイブリット授業について講演
立命館大学第3回教学実践フォーラム（教育開発推進機構）において、「対面／Webのハイブリッド式ゼミ授業～3タイプの参加形態確保の試み～」と題した講演をZoomにて行いました。
2019年8月23日
Asian Society of International Law, 7th Biennial Conference
アジア国際法学会で研究報告をしました。
Megumi Ochi, "A Pragmatic Approach to the General Principles of International Criminal Law?: The Role of Asian Laws,” Asian Society of International Law, 7th Biennial Conference Manila, Philippines (Novotel Manila Araneta Center, 23 August 2019).
2018年4月1日
オランダ・ハーグ 国際弁護士協会年次会議に参加
オランダ、ハーグの平和宮で行われた、国際弁護士協会（International Bar Association）が主催する国際会議「危機にある世界）に参加しました。難民、裁判免除、テロ資金供与、Jus Post Bellumといったホット・トピックについて専門家らの講演を聞きました。
別日には、ライデン大学でセミナー報告（上記参照）、また国際刑事裁判所（ICC）を訪問し、Ntaganda事件及びGbagbo事件を傍聴しました。
2015年10月4日
京都大学 アカデミックディ2015でポスター報告
2015年10月4日に京都大学で行われたアカデミックディ2015の「研究者と立ち話」で、「目を背けたい世界の大規模犯罪のその後」と題した、国際犯罪に対する処罰や被害者救済の動向に関するポスター報告を行いました。
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2018年4月1日
シンガポール 「アジアにおける国際犯罪裁判会議」に参加
2013年10月16日から10月19日にシンガポール国立大学において行われた「アジアにおける国際犯罪裁判会議」に参加しました
2012年4月4日~9月30日
オランダ・ハーグ 国際刑事裁判所予審裁判部でインターン
International Criminal Court (Pre-Trial Chamber II) (The Netherlands, April 2012-September 2012)
Intern
2012年4月1日から9月30日まで、トレンダフィロヴァ判事付きのインターンとして、半年間国際刑事裁判所で裁判実務に携わりました。
2022年5月29日
NHKクローズアップ現代でウクライナでの戦争犯罪裁判について解説しました
「“戦争犯罪”は裁けるのか ウクライナ検察・知られざる闘い」（NHKクローズアップ現代、2022年8月1日出演）
2022年4月9日
国際学会でヘイトスピーチに関する日本の制度についての研究報告をしました
OCHI Megumi, Elements of the Local Osaka Ordinance that May Be Relevant to Community Self-Regulation at Religion, Hateful Expression and Violence (Florence, 8-9 April 2022)
報告内容はオンデマンドで視聴できます。
2020年7月31日
メディア引用
フォーサイト記事「「大規模爆発」「内閣総辞職」でレバノン逃亡中「ゴーン」日本引き渡しの可能性」に、私のインタビューが引用されました。
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2018年8月22日
Chief of the Organizing Committee, the 6th AIDP Symposium for Young Penalists
国際刑法協会で研究報告をしました。
第6回国際刑法協会若手部会シンポジウムを、京都大学において主宰しました。
I held the 6th AIDP Symposium for Young Penalists at Kyoto University.
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2016年2月21日
ICC Legal Tools Projectに参加
本HPのDatabasesでも紹介しているICC Legal Tools のデータベース編集チームに参加しています。
協力者を募集しています。
2015年5月30日
イタリア・シラクーザでの国際刑事法に関する特別コースに参加
Participated in 15th Specialization Course in International Criminal Law for Young Penalist, "Global Issues and Their Impact on the Future of Human Rights and International Criminal Justice, International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC) (Siracusa, Italy).
2015年5月30日～6月9日に行われた、刑事科学における高等教育の国際機関（ISISC）によるサマーコース「グローバル・イシューとそれらの人権と国際刑事司法の将来に対する影響」に参加
2013年6月9日
フィンランド・ヘルシンキ 国際刑法学会第四部会準備コロキアムに参加
国際刑法学会第四部会準備会にナショナル・レポーターとして参加（フィンランド、2013年6月9日～12日）
Participating the International Association of Penal Law XIX International Congress of Penal Law, Preparatory Colloquium, Section 4 (Helsinki, Finland)
National reporter
2022年5月29日
ウクライナでの戦争犯罪裁判についてフジテレビ日曜討論ザ・プライムに出演しました
日本の戦争犯罪関連の国内法制についても議論しました。
2022年4月
ロシア・ウクライナ危機に関して複数のメディアに出演しました
・「キーウ近郊で虐殺か「戦争犯罪」になる?プーチン氏が裁かれる可能性は?」（Abema Prime）（2022/04/05）
・「ロシアのウクライナ軍事侵攻 ゼレンスキー大統領「ジェノサイド」訴え」（TBSラジオ萩上チキSession）（2022/04/05）
・特集「ロシアのウクライナ軍事侵攻。ロシア軍を国際法で戦争犯罪に問えるのか」越智萌（立命館大学・准教授）×荻上チキ×南部広美（TBSラジオ萩上チキSession）（2022/04/11）
・ロシアの戦争犯罪を裁くことはできるのか｜ウクライナ侵攻で注目を集める戦争犯罪と国際刑事裁判所。ロシアを国際法で裁くことは可能なのか専門家に聞く｜ゲスト：越智萌（4/26）（ポリタスTV）（2022/04/26）
2018年4月1日
Judge, ICC Moot Court Competition
国際刑事裁判所（ICC）模擬裁判大会において、書面審査員を務めました
2016年5月18日
ルーマニア・ブカレスト 国際刑法学会世界会議に参加
2016年5月18日～20日にブカレストで行われた、国際刑法学会の世界会議「刑法を通じた環境の保護」に参加しました。
2015年1月31日
オランダ・ハーグ 国際弁護士協会年次会議に参加
2015年1月31日から2月1日に、オランダ・ハーグの平和宮において行われた、国際刑事法に関する国際弁護士協会年次会議「2015に向けた国際的な法的挑戦」に出席しました。
併せて、国際刑事裁判所を訪問し、エカテリーナ・トレンダフィロヴァ判事や、モハメド・エル・ゼイディ法務官とインタビューを行いました。
2018年4月1日
セルビア、ボスニア、コソヴォ 裁判実務家とのインタビュー
平成24年度未来共生フィールド調査「加害者と被害者の『隣人化』と移行期正義の取組み―旧ユーゴスラヴィア戦争犯罪実行者裁判と法の支配ミッションの現状」（セルビア、ボスニア・ヘルツェゴビナ、コソヴォ、2013年3月10日～21日）（「未来共生イノベーター博士課程プログラム」により派遣）
Field Research Project: ‘”Neibourization” of the Criminals and Victims and the Effort of Transitional Justice: Current Status of Prosecutions of War Criminals of the former Yugoslavia and Rule of Law Mission’
Researcher