M. (Maiko) Meguro
Faculty of Law
Public International Law
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
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Postbus 15859
1001 NJ Amsterdam
Contact details
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Profile
Maiko Meguro joined the Amsterdam Center for International Law in September 2016. Her research focuses on the causal mechanisms behind international law-making processes, particularly how states formalize their commitments through legal instruments. By analyzing state behavior and decision-making processes, she develops frameworks for understanding legal bindingness at the international level as well as reconstructing the notion of bindingness in international law. Her work applies social science methodologies, including process-tracing, to legal questions, contributing to the reconstruction of doctrinal concepts and theories in international law.
Research Fields :
Legal Theory | Sources of Law | Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Law | Law of International Organizations | Environmental Law | Trade and Investment Law | International Courts and Arbitrations | Transnational Law on Digital Technologies.
Professional Background:
Maiko has worked extensively in international treaty negotiations and policy development in trade, digital technology, and environmental sectors. She currently leads cross-border data flows and data free flow with trust initiatives at the OECD. She has held positions with Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) , the Digital Agency of Japan and the European Commission's DG CONNECT.
During her time with GOJ, she represented Japan in multilateral and bilateral negotiations on the digital economy, including serving as co-chair of the G7 Digital Technology Working Group during Japan's G7 Presidency. She has participated in COP/CMP processes under the UNFCCC, contributed to IPCC proceedings, engaged with WTO dispute settlement mechanisms, and worked on negotiations for trade agreements including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement.
She have also worked as a lawyer at several institutions including the Energy Charter Treaty, Brussels. For editorial experiences, she was a theme developper (topic editor) at the OXIO (Oxford International Organizations).
Maiko has a LLM in Public International Law from the University of Amsterdam, and a Master's in International Relations(specialized in international law) from the University of Tokyo, Japan.
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Publications
- key publications (5)
- refereed (8)
- academic (6)
- professional (1)
- conference contributions (8)
- recognitions (22)
2021
Meguro, M. (2021). Tracing influence in international legal studies: Beyond the antagonism between doctrine of law and social science. In R. Deplano , & N. Tsagourias (Eds.), Research Methods in International Law: a handbook (pp. 265-281). (Handbooks of Research Methods in Law). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972369.00025 [details]
2020
- Meguro, M. (2020). Between Anthropomorphism and Artificial Unity. In S. Droubi, & J. d'Aspremont (Eds.), International organisations, non-State actors, and the formation of customary international law (pp. 123-141). (Melland Schill Perspectives on International Law). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526134165.00012 [details]
- Meguro, M. (2020). Litigating Climate Change through International Law: Obligations Strategy and Rights Strategy. Leiden Journal of International Law, 33(4), 933-951. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156520000473 [details]
- Meguro, M. (2020). Pitfalls in Reconstructing Theories of International Law and Sources: [国際法・法源論再構築の陷穽]: Thinking through the Lens of ‘Aggregated State’ Concept [思考実験としての「集合体国家（Aggregated State）」理論]. Yearbook of World Law (Sekaiho Nempo), 39.
2017
- Meguro, M. (2017). Distinguishing the Legal Bindingness and Normative Content of Customary International Law. ESIL Reflections, 6(11). http://www.esil-sedi.eu/node/1959 [details]
2025
- Meguro, M. (2025). 信頼性ある自由なデータ流通が目指すもの--国際データガバナンスに向けた序論. Horitsu Jiho (法律時報 Journal of Current Legal Affairs), (1212), 40.
2023
- Meguro, M. (2023). Retreat of the State in International Law? The Case of Climate Change. In I. Aral, & J. d'Aspremont (Eds.), International Law and Universality Oxford University Press India. https://ssrn.com/abstract=5222988
2022
- Meguro, M. (2022). The Myth of 'Identification': Customary International Law and International Courts – In Response to P. Westerman. In K. Gorobets , A. Hadjigeorgiou, & P. Westerman (Eds.), Hardback Conceptual (Re)Constructions of International Law (pp. 145). Edward Elgar.
2021
- Meguro, M. (2021). 赦免の制度と国際刑事法の相克 - 法の支配と平和構築に関する序論的考察 (Conflict of Amnesty and Anti-Impunity under International Criminal Law - How the Rule of Law May or May not Contribute Transitional Justice). Horitsu Jiho (法律時報 Journal of Current Legal Affairs), (1165).
2020
- Meguro, M. (2020). AJIL 2020/4. Case note on: Sup. Ct. Neth., 20/12/19, ECLI:NL:HR:2019:2007 (State of the Netherlands v Urgenda Foundation). American Journal of International Law, 114(4), 729-735. [details]
- Meguro, M. (2020). Litigating Climate Change through International Law: Obligations Strategy and Rights Strategy. Leiden Journal of International Law, 33(4), 933-951. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156520000473 [details]
- Meguro, M. (2020). Pitfalls in Reconstructing Theories of International Law and Sources: [国際法・法源論再構築の陷穽]: Thinking through the Lens of ‘Aggregated State’ Concept [思考実験としての「集合体国家（Aggregated State）」理論]. Yearbook of World Law (Sekaiho Nempo), 39.
2017
- Meguro, M. (2017). Distinguishing the Legal Bindingness and Normative Content of Customary International Law. ESIL Reflections, 6(11). http://www.esil-sedi.eu/node/1959 [details]
2023
- Meguro, M. (2023). 「人間によるコントロール」の理論的基礎と実践への反映. Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan (ロボット学会誌), 41, 27. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jrsj/41/1/41_41_27/_pdf
2022
- Meguro, M. (2022). Appraisal of Diversity in International Law:A Note on Self-Serving Biases and Interdisciplinarity. In P. Westerman, K. Gorobets, & A. Hadjigeorgiou (Eds.), Philosophical (De)Constructions of International Law (pp. 105). Edward Elgar. https://ssrn.com/abstract=3871186
2021
- Meguro, M. (2021). Tracing influence in international legal studies: Beyond the antagonism between doctrine of law and social science. In R. Deplano , & N. Tsagourias (Eds.), Research Methods in International Law: a handbook (pp. 265-281). (Handbooks of Research Methods in Law). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972369.00025 [details]
2020
- Meguro, M. (2020). Between Anthropomorphism and Artificial Unity. In S. Droubi, & J. d'Aspremont (Eds.), International organisations, non-State actors, and the formation of customary international law (pp. 123-141). (Melland Schill Perspectives on International Law). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526134165.00012 [details]
2019
- Meguro, M. (2019). Backlash against international law by the East? How the concept of ‘transplantation’ helps us to better understand reception processes of international law. Web publication or website, Völkerrechtsblog. https://doi.org/10.17176/20190115-100552-0 [details]
2018
- Meguro, M. (2018). The Whaling case and the Duty to Cooperate: Responding to Professors Thirlway and d’Aspremont. Web publication or website, EJIL: Talk!. https://www.ejiltalk.org/ejil-debate-the-whaling-case-and-the-duty-to-cooperate-responding-to-professors-thirlway-and-daspremont/ [details]
2017
- Meguro, M. (2017). Eliminating barriers to the entry and to the establishment of energy investments: Negotiating non-discriminatory pre-investment obligations, market access and facilitating investment in the energy sector. (OCCASIONAL PAPER SERIES). Energy Charter Secretariat . http://www.energycharter.org/what-we-do/publications/eliminating-barriers-to-the-entry-and-to-the-establishment-of-energy-investments/ [details]
2019
- Meguro, M. (2019). Behind the fiction of opinio juris: the actors that actually create international law. Paper presented at First ECTPIL and TRICI-Law Conference The Theory and Philosophy of Customary International Law and its Interpretation, Groningen, Netherlands.
- Meguro, M. (2019). Changing the narrative in international economic partnership: ‘exception’ and ‘convergence’ in linking different markets and societies. Abstract from TRILATTRADE- On UK-EU-Japan relations in Trade, Regulation & IP, London, United Kingdom.
- Meguro, M. (2019). Pitfalls in Reconstructing Theories of International Law and Sources: Thinking through the Lens of ‘Aggregated State’ Concept. Paper presented at 2019 Annual Conference of Japanese Association of the World Law, Tokyo , Japan.
- Meguro, M. (2019). The Perpetual Relation between the Normative and the Empirical in International Legal Scholarship: the Framework of ‘Transplantation’. Paper presented at Special workshop: ’Philosophical Perspectives on International Law’ at IVR World Congress 2019 of Philosophy of Law and social Philosophy, Lucern, Switzerland.
2018
- Meguro, M. (2018). A Retreat from Universality in International Environmental Law? Law’s Limbo between Universality and Particularity. Paper presented at 14th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law, Manchester, United Kingdom. https://ssrn.com/abstract=3246691
- Meguro, M. (2018). Programming for a World and Constituted Expertise: The Case of Climate Change. Paper presented at IGLP: The Conference 2018 (Harvard Law School), Cambridge, United States.
- Meguro, M. (2018). The Inextricability of Methods:Qualitative Causality and Process Tracing in International Law. Paper presented at The neglected methodologies of international law, Leicester, United Kingdom.
2017
- Meguro, M. (2017). International and comparative perspective on the implementation of the Paris agreement. Abstract from FORUM SUR LA MISE EN OEUVRE DE L’ACCORD DE PARIS SUR LE CLIMAT , Paris, France.
Media appearance
- Meguro, M. (14-03-2023). Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) [Web]. Operationalizing Data Free Flow with Trust (DFFT) - CSIS Panel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsJ195LO5nA
- Meguro, M. (07-09-2021). AsianSIL 101 (Episode 4): We, the Robots [Web] Asian Society of International Law Podcast (AsianSIL). AsianSIL 101 (Episode 4): We, the Robots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W6QCjzi0G0
Journal editor
- Meguro, M. (member of editorial board) (2017). Oxford International Organizations (OXIO) (Journal). http://opil.ouplaw.com/home/OXIO
Talk / presentation
- Meguro, M. (speaker) (6-9-2022). Analysis on ‘Ensuring Human Control’ as an element of ELSI on Artificial Intelligence, Annual Conference of Robot Society of Japan (RSJ2022), Tokyo.
- Meguro, M. (speaker) (30-1-2021). Amnesty and Institutionalisation of "Anti-Impunity Norms - For Whose Peace and Justice?" (赦免と処罰の国際制度化), Workshop Series on 'Peace through Punishment or Peace through
Reconciliation?'("処罰による平和、和解による平和"). - Meguro, M. (speaker) (18-9-2019). Changing the narrative in international economic partnership: ‘exception’ and ‘convergence’ in linking different markets and societies, TRILATTRADE- On UK-EU-Japan relations in Trade, Regulation & IP, London. https://www.city.ac.uk/events/2019/september/trilattrade-on-uk-eu-japan-relations-in-trade-regulation-and-ip
- Meguro, M. (speaker) (11-7-2019). The Perpetual Relation between the Normative and the Empirical in International Legal Scholarship: the Framework of ‘Transplantation’, Special workshop: ’Philosophical Perspectives on International Law’ at IVR World Congress 2019 of Philosophy of Law and social Philosophy, Lucern. https://www.ivr2019.org/special-workshops
- Meguro, M. (speaker) (25-5-2019). Behind the fiction of opinio juris: the actors that actually create international law, First ECTPIL and TRICI-Law Conference The Theory and Philosophy of Customary International Law and its Interpretation, Groningen. https://www.rug.nl/rechten/congressen/archief/2019/theory-and-philosophy-customary-international-law/
- Meguro, M. (speaker) (14-9-2018). A Retreat in International Environmental Law? Law's Limbo between Universality and Particularity (Agora 10: Questioning Universality in International Regimes), 14th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law, Manchester. https://ssrn.com/abstract=3246691
- Meguro, M. (speaker) (2-6-2018). Programming for a World and Constituted Expertise: The Case of Climate Change, IGLP: The Conference 2018 (Harvard Law School), Cambridge. http://iglp.law.harvard.edu/iglp-the-conference/
- Meguro, M. (invited speaker) (12-5-2018). Going Beyond State vs non-State Dichotomy in International Law, University of Kyoto (International Law Seminar).
- Meguro, M. (speaker) (11-3-2018). Creation of Bindingness: Whose Voice Matters?, Critical Research in Public International Law, Stockholm Center for International Law and Justice.
- Meguro, M. (speaker) (30-1-2018). The Inextricability of Methods:Qualitative Causality and Process Tracing in International Law, Workshop: the Neglected Methodologies of International Law.
- Meguro, M. (speaker) (30-1-2018). The Inextricability of Methods:Qualitative Causality and Process Tracing in International Law, The neglected methodologies of international law, Leicester.
- Meguro, M. (invited speaker) (26-1-2018). Reporter: Can a source be a tool of critique?, THE SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF SOURCES by the Oxford Handbook on the Sources of International Law, Fribourg.
- Meguro, M. (invited speaker) (3-11-2017). Collective State Consent - the Collapse of Democratic Legitimacy Thesis, Manchester International Law Center.
- Meguro, M. (speaker) (14-6-2017). International law does not arise out of nowhere - the process of law-making and the role of non-state actors, Manchester International Law Center.
- Meguro, M. (invited speaker) (31-5-2017). Perspectives internationales and comparées sur la mise en œuvre de l’accord de Paris, FORUM SUR LA MISE EN OEUVRE DE L’ACCORD DE PARIS , Paris.
Others
- Meguro, M. (visiting researcher) (20-8-2018 - 7-9-2018). The Hague Academy of International Law (visiting an external institution).
- Meguro, M. (chair) (18-5-2018). Japan and International Law. The present workshop is organized by Maiko Meguro (co-chair) and Yota Negishi,with co-chairmanship of Jean d’Aspremont under the auspices of Mari (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Meguro, M. (organiser) (8-5-2018). Closed Workshop-Expert Meeting THE CREATION OF BINDINGNESS IN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, Amsterdam. The workshop will be held 8 May 2018 at the University of Amsterdam. Participants include experts of international environmental law making from both (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). http://acil.uva.nl/content/events/workshops/2018/05/non-state-actors-in-international-environmental-law-making.html?origin=mRJepSkVRiCZdz7ANaNezQ
- Meguro, M. (visiting researcher) (11-3-2018 - 13-3-2018). Stockholm Centre for International Law, University of Stockholm (visiting an external institution).
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Meguro, M. (2021). Tracing influence in international legal studies: Beyond the antagonism between doctrine of law and social science. In R. Deplano , & N. Tsagourias (Eds.), Research Methods in International Law: a handbook (pp. 265-281). (Handbooks of Research Methods in Law). Edward Elgar Publishing.