SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Overview

School of Law

Lecturer in Law

Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law

Member

SOAS Food Studies Centre

Member

Name:

Yoriko Otomo

Email address:

yo4@soas.ac.uk

Biography

Yoriko Otomo joined SOAS in October 2012 as a Lecturer in Law, having previously been a Lecturer in Law at Keele University. She is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, where she also undertook a PhD.

She has previously taught at Birkbeck College, University of London, the International Center for Legal Studies (registered center with the University of London International Programmes) and Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Most recently she has also worked at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics, for the Danish Institute for Human Rights, and for the United Nations University’s Institute of Advanced Studies.

Yoriko’s main areas of research interest are animal law, environmental law, international law and legal theory. Her co-edited book (with Edward Mussawir), ‘Law and the Question of the Animal’ will be published in early 2013. Current projects include the preparation of her doctoral thesis, ‘Unconditional Life: The Time and Technics of International Law’ for publication as a monograph, and research for another monograph, ‘Corpus Animalis: The Politics of Being’, for publication in 2014.

She has recently convened an online workshop, ‘Law’s Animal’, an international workshop, ‘The Phenomenology of Global Order: Inquiries into the Materiality of International Law’ at SOAS, and an international workshop at Keele University, ‘Global Order in Context’. She was also co-convenor of an interdisciplinary workshop and theatre piece, ‘Her Proper Name: A Revisionist History of International Law’ at Birkbeck College, University of London. In 2013 Yoriko will be convening a conference, ‘Dogs, Pigs and Children: Changing Laws in 19th Century Colonial Britain’ at SOAS.

Yoriko is a member of the Food Studies Centre and the Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law at SOAS. She is on the editorial board of the Australian Feminist Law Journal.