Prof. Hitoshi Nasu, Ph.D.

Hitoshi Nasu, Ph.D., is a professor of law at the United States Military Academy, where he is a member of the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare and the Robotic Research Center. He also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Stockton Center for International Law, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, and a Principal Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading, United Kingdom.

Prior to his current appointment, he was a professor of international law at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. From 2007-17, he taught law at Australian National University, where he was also co-director of the Centre for Military and Security Law and the Australian Network for Japanese Law.

Professor Nasu has a wealth of expertise in public international law, with many years of research and teaching experience in Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He has extensively published in the areas of international security law, the law of armed conflict, and the law of weaponry. His expertise extends to a wide range of international security law issues, such as collective security, peacekeeping, protecting civilians in armed conflict, and in different domains, including maritime, cyber, and space. In particular, he has produced a world-class body of scholarship on various legal issues arising from military applications of advanced technology, such as nanotechnology and artificial intelligence, as well as contemporary security challenges in the Indo-Pacific theatre.