The universities of Tokyo and Leiden are jointly establishing an endowed chair named after Professor Hisashi Owada. The Owada chair will focus on the interaction between international law and international relations from an interdisciplinary perspective. Dominique Moïsi, a professor at King’s College London, will be the first to hold this chair, starting this spring. He will give his inaugural lecture on 24 May, in the Grand Auditorium of the Academy Building in Leiden.

After lunch, Professor Owada will engage with the audience in a more in-depth conversation on the topical significance of this chair. He will be joined by Dean Takumi Moriyama of Tokyo University.

The Owada chair is funded by the LUF, the Leiden Asia Centre, the Ailion Foundation and Kikkoman Foods Europe B.V