Syrian Chemical Weapons and International Law

Tatsuya Abe is Professor of International Law at the School of International Politics, Economics and Communication, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan. Having received his Doctor of Laws degree from Kyoto University, Professor Abe specializes in disarmament and arms control law, having been involved for over 20 years with the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Recent publications include Weapons of Mass Destruction and International Law (2011) (in Japanese), as well as articles in The Nonproliferation Review and Japanese Yearbook of International Law.

阿部達也是日本青山學院大學國際政治、經濟與傳播學院的國際法教授。他在京都大學獲得法學博士學位，專攻裁軍與軍備控制法，並在獲得諾貝爾和平獎的化學武器禁止組織（OPCW）工作超過20年。最近的出版物包括《大規模毀滅性武器與國際法》（2011年，日文），以及在《不擴散評論》和《日本國際法年鑑》上的文章。