Kentaro Wani, LLB (Sophia University, 1999), MA (the University of Tokyo, 2001), PhD (the University of Tokyo, 2007), is Associate Professor of Public International Law at Osaka University, Japan (since October 2010). From 2007 to 2010 he was Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the University of Tokyo. He maintains a special interest in the law of armed conflict; the use of force in international law; the law of the sea; and the history of international law. His principal publications include Neutrality in International Law: From the Sixteenth Century to 1945 (Routledge, 2017); “Development of the Law of the Sea and the Legal Status of International Straits in Time of International Armed Conflict,” Japanese Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 61 (2019); and “The Status of Rebels in Non-International Armed Conflict: Do They Have the Right to Life?,” in Karen N. Scott, Kathleen Claussen, Charles-Emmanuel Côté, and Atsuko Kanehara, eds., Changing Actors in International Law (Brill, 2020). He has won the 43rd Adachi Mineichiro Memorial Award (Adachi Mineichiro Memorial Foundation) in 2010 for his work on the law of neutrality.