Professor Miho Omi

Biography

Miho Omi is Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law and the Dean of the Graduate School of Law, Kanagawa University in Yokohama, Japan. She teaches International Public Law and International Human Rights Law. Before joining Kanagawa University, she taught at Nagasaki University as well as lectured part-time at several universities in Tokyo area. Miho received BA in Liberal Arts and MA in Public Administration from International Christian University in Tokyo, MA in Public Affairs from Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, and PhD in Law form Kanagawa University.

Her research interests lie in International Human Rights Law, especially the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Convention) and Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee). She has been also interested in feminist approaches to international law since she joined a translation project of the book by Hilary Charlesworth and Christin Chinkin titled the Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis into Japanese, which was published in Japan in 2004.

She wrote her doctoral dissertation in which she analysed the relationship between women and trade liberalisation through the WTO system, using the discussions of feminist international law, international relations/political economy, and international economics as well as the third world feminism. Her book, based on the PhD dissertation, Trade Liberalization and Women: A Feminist Analysis of the WTO System (Shogakusha, 2013, in Japanese) received the 7^th Nishio Academic Encouragement Award of the Japan Association of Gender and Law. Miho is a member of the Boards of the International Human Rights Law Association (in Japan) and Japan Association of Gender and Law. She is also a guest editor of the special issue on gender of Peace Studies, vol.64 to be published online in June 2025 by Peace Studies Association of Japan.