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A Globalist Judge, at Home and Abroad

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Tanaka Kōtarō and World Law

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Focusing on Tanaka’s role as a judge, the chapter opens with his appointment as the Chief Justice of the Japanese Supreme Court in 1950 and ending with his 1970 retirement from the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The Tanaka Court heard some of the most important cases in modern Japanese history, but Tanaka’s importance extended beyond the decisions of the court to his critical role in establishing the independence of the court from outside influence. Both in Tokyo and at The Hague, Tanaka put into practice the principles of World Law, thus bringing to fruition the promise inherent in his life-long globalist jurisprudence. The culmination of his implementation of World Law is his famous dissenting opinion in the South West Africa Case that is still held up today as an example of the relevance of Natural Law to the defense of human rights and the struggle against racism.

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Doak, K.M. (2019). A Globalist Judge, at Home and Abroad. In: Tanaka Kōtarō and World Law . Global Political Thinkers. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02035-4_5

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