Shinya Murase is Professor Emeritus of Sophia University in Tokyo. He obtained B.A. from International Christian University, Tokyo and S.J.D. from the University of Tokyo. He was Visiting Scholar/Research Fellow at Harvard Law School from 1974 to 1976, and Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School in 1995. He served as Judge of the Administrative Tribunal of the Asian Development Bank from 1998 to 2004. He was a Member of the UN International Law Commission from 2009 to 2022 and its Special Rapporteur for the topic on the Protection of the Atmosphere from 2013 to 2021. He was also Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and of the Institute of International Law. His major publications include: International Law: An Integrative Perspective on Transboundary Issues (Sophia University Press, 2011, in English) and International Lawmaking: Sources of International Law (Toshindo, 2002, in Japanese). The latter has been translated into Chinese and published by the Chinese People’s University for Public Safety Press.
村濑信也是日本上智大学荣休法学教授。他拥有日本国际基督教大学学士学位和东京大学法律科学博士学位。他于1974-1976年任哈佛大学法学院访问学者和研究员，1995年任哥伦比亚大学法学院客座教授，1998-2004年担任亚洲开发银行行政审判庭法官。他于2009年至2022年期间担任联合国国际法委员会委员，并于2013至2021年期间担任大气保护专题特别报告员。此外，他还曾任常设仲裁法院仲裁员和国际法研究院会员。他的主要著作有《国际法问题：跨界整合的视角》（英文）和《国际立法：国际法的渊源》（日文原著，该书中文译本已由中国人民公安大学出版社出版）。