Professor, University of Copenhagen
Yoshifumi Tanaka is Professor of International Law with specific focus on the law of the sea at the
Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and a member of Centre for Enterprise
Liability (CEVIA). He holds a DES and a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International Studies,
Geneva (currently the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva) and a
LLM from Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. He is the single author of four books, i.e. Predictability
and Flexibility in the Law of Maritime Delimitation (Hart 2006; 2 nd edn forthcoming), A Dual
Approach to Ocean Governance: The Cases of Zonal and Integrated Management in International
Law of the Sea (Ashgate, 2008), The International Law of the Sea (2 nd edition, Cambridge
University Press, 2015; 3 rd edn forthcoming), and The Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes
(Cambridge University Press, 2018). He has published widely in the fields of the law of the sea,
international environmental law and peaceful settlement of international disputes.