Saul Takahashi
Visiting Professor of Legal Studies
Affiliation: Visiting
Education: LLM University of Essex
Research Areas: International human rights law; International humanitarian law; Palestine; Third world approaches to international law; Islamophobia
Saul J. Takahashi is an international human rights and humanitarian lawyer, and his main research interests include human rights in Palestine, third world approaches to international law, and Islamophobia in Europe. Takahashi started his career working with refugees in Amnesty International in Japan and then in London, after which he moved to the UN. He served as Deputy Head of Office of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Occupied Palestine from March 2009 to May 2014, during which time he traveled throughout both the West Bank and Gaza, monitoring the documentation of human rights violations and coordinating support to the Government of the State of Palestine and Palestinian civil society organizations. He holds an LLM in international human rights law from the University of Essex, and also serves as Senior Non-resident Fellow at the Hashim Sani Centre for Palestine Studies, University Malaya.
Takahashi is the author of several books in English and in Japanese, including Civil and Political Rights in Japan: a Tribute to Sir Nigel Rodley (Routledge, ed.); Human Rights and Drug Control: the False Dichotomy (Hart Publishing); and The Palestinian People Continue to Suffer: Why the UN Can’t Solve the Problem (Japanese, Gendai Jinbun-sha). He is currently working on a book on different forms of sumud in Palestine.