On May 17th, Mr. Yozo Yokota came to the lecture of International Organizations Theory as a guest speaker. Under the theme of “International Organizations and International Law”, Mr. Yokota explained with real example that the foundation, purpose, authority and activities of the International Organizations are totally based on the International Law, however, formation of the International Organizations made change of the International Law too. In addition, there is a problem on the relationship between the National Law and the International Law, so Mr. Yokota said that we need think the International Organizations as premises. (Eri Iijima)

On May 10, the lecture of International Organizations Theory has started. First Prof. Hasegawa recommended that we should have own awareness of the issue and make a purpose of this lecture clear. Then he introduced an outline of this lecture.
Today’s main theme was “The origin and evolution and role of international organizations” and Prof. Hasegawa explained the activity of UN with his own experience.Furthermore he proposed that Japanese government should establish a committee organized by international expert of nuclear power. (Mai Nakasendo)