Nobuhisa Ishizuka, Life Fellow, had his article on published in The American University International Law Review. The article discusses Japan’s legal pathway to more active participation in collective security in Asia.
Following a major security policy change in 2022 that included a rapid defense build up, this article reexamines Japan’s 2015 Peace and Security Legislation in the context of the U.N. collective security system and argues that its most significant achievement has been to expand Japan’s power to engage more proactively in the Asian collective security order. In that many focused on how the law expanded constitutional limits to allow collective self-defense, this article argues the deeper significance enabled Japan to respond to a broader range of threats, not just survival-level ones.
Nobuhisa Ishizuka is currently the Executive Director of the Center for Japanese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School. Prior to joining the center, he was a Partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where he advised on corporate and financial matters, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. In addition to being a Life Fellow of the ABF, he is a member of the Board of Visitors at Columbia Law School, the Board of Visitors of Columbia College, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Japanese American Association of New York.
Read his article here.