June 27, 2024
On Tuesday, May 28, 2024, at Teikyo University's Hachioji Campus, a special alumni award was presented to graduate Kazuki Kanda (graduated from Faculty of Law in 2022) by Chairman and President Yoshihito Okinaga of the university. This special award was given to Kanda for winning the Encouragement Award at the 9th Oda Shigeru Award, sponsored by the International Law Association, for a paper he wrote while enrolled in the Faculty of Law.
When Kanda submitted her paper for the Oda Shigeru Award, she wrote on the theme of "The principle of exhaustion of domestic remedies in individual complaint procedures related to the Convention on the Rights of the Child - focusing on unaccompanied children." There had been no Japanese-language paper on this theme until now, and she was recognized for being the first to write a paper based on English-language materials and papers. Our university has never had a recipient of the Oda Shigeru Award before, so Kanda's receipt of the Oda Shigeru Award is a great honor for us at the university, and she was presented with a special alumni award. We look forward to Kanda's continued success and will continue to support our successful alumni.