Saul J. TAKAHASHI

Saul J. Takahashi is Professor of Human Rights and Peace Studies at
Osaka Jogakuin University in Osaka, Japan. He 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. Saul started his career working with
refugees in Amnesty International in Japan and then in London, after
which he moved to the UN, where 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. Saul 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, and as an Expert of the Global
Network on the Question of Palestine. Saul 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).