Hisashi Owada
| Hisashi Owada 小和田 恆 |
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Owada in 2005
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| President of the International Court of Justice | |
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In office 6 February 2009 – 5 February 2012 |
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| Vice President | Peter Tomka |
| Preceded by | Rosalyn Higgins |
| Succeeded by | Peter Tomka |
| Member of the International Court of Justice | |
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Assumed office 6 February 2003 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Hisashi Owada 18 September 1932 Shibata, Niigata, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Spouse(s) | Yumiko Egashira (m. 1962) |
| Children |
Crown Princess Masako Setsuko Owada Reiko Owada |
| Alma mater |
University of Tokyo University of Cambridge Trinity College, Cambridge |
Hisashi Owada (小和田 恆 Owada Hisashi?, born 18 September 1932) is a former Japanese diplomat and law professor, and a judge on the International Court of Justice since 2002.
Hisashi Owada was born in Shibata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, the third of seven children.
After earning a B.A. from the University of Tokyo in 1955, he passed the civil service examinations to join the Diplomatic and Consular service, now known as the Foreign Service .
Because of sponsorship from his Foreign Ministry, Owada was sent to study at Trinity College, Cambridge in the United Kingdom where he earned a law degree in 1959 and later a doctorate of philosophy.
"In between postings he was to take semesters as a visiting professor in international treaty law, his specialty, at Harvard and at Oxford."
Overall Owada has served as a law professor for three decades at the University of Tokyo, Harvard Law School, New York University Law School, Columbia Law School, the Hague Academy of International Law, Waseda University, and the University of Cambridge. He also served as the Bright International Jurist-in-Residence at the University of Hawaii's William S. Richardson School of Law in 2010. He has received honorary degrees from Keiwa College, Banaras Hindu University, and Waseda University.
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