Teaching & Supervision

Understanding, as distinguished from having correct information and scientific knowledge, is a complicated process which never produces unequivocal results. It is unending activity by which, in constant change and variation, we come to terms with and reconcile ourselves to reality, that is, try to be at home in the world. – Hannah Arendt

Teaching activities

I teach in various courses such as Law and Society in Japan, Introduction to Socio-legal Studies, Law and Culture, Law and Gender, and Law and Governance in Asia. In teaching, I value the dialogue and intellectual curiosity. I try to create and facilitate the environment where students can demonstrate their curiosity and practice dialogue with their fellow classmates and with me. In my class, students are not an empty vessels to be filled with knowledge, but are co-creators of knowledge.

Leiden Law School

  • Course coordinator and lecturer for the Bachelor-level course Law and Culture (2023-2026)
  • Course coordinator and lecturer for the Bachelor-level course Law, Gender, Race and Intersectionality (2022-2026).
  • Course coordinator and lecturer for the Bachelor-level course Law and Society in Japan (2019-2025).
  • Course coordinator and lecturer for the Bachelor-level course Law and Governance in Asia (2017-2026).
  • Guest lecturer for the Master-level course L.L.M. Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights (2017-2019).
  • Guest lecturer for the Bachelor-level course Law and Development (2019).
  • Guest lecturer for Law and Culture (2019).
  • Lecturer for College Mensenrechten, a series of lectures for the Bachelor-level law students (2023).
  • Guest lecturer for the Master-level course on women’s rights in European and International Human Rights Law (2023).

Leiden University College the Hague

  • Course coordinator and lecturer for the Bachelor-level course Law and Culture (2024).
  • Course coordinator and lecturer for the Bachelor-level course Introduction to Socio-Legal Studies (2021).
  • Lecturer for the Bachelor-level course Law and Governance in Asia (2018-2019).
  • Guest lecturer for the Bachelor-level course Law and Development (2019-2021).
  • Guest lecturer for the Bachelor-level course Comparative Justice (2021-2022).

Science Po (Paris, France)

  • Guest lecturer for the Bachelor course Feminist Legal Theory (2021-2023).

Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan)

  • Guest lecturer for the Bachelor course Sex(uality) and the Law (2021).

University of Indonesia (Jakarta, Indonesia)

  • Lecturer for Socio-legal Studies Program, Master of Law (2022).

Supervision of students

PhD students

Nanda Amalia (2020-present, thesis: Access to Justice in Aceh: A Socio-legal Study of Family Legal Disputes and The Limits of Redress. PhD candidate at VanVollenhoven Institute).

Chalalai Taesilapasathit (2022-present, thesis: Child Marriage in Thailand: Theorizing the perpetuation of its existence. PhD candidate at Mahidol University, The Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies).

Kat Watson (2024-present, thesis: the utility and application of the ‘evolving capacities’ principle in the context of adolescent sexuality)

Neha Gauhar (2024-present, thesis: The role of the informal justice system in perpetuating and legitimising violence against women and the girl child in Pakistan)

Priscilla Yovia (2024-present, thesis: The pertinency of age of consent in the case of sexual violence between adolescents)

Masters students (selected)

Xin Xu (2021-2022, thesis: The Paradox of Gender Equality Theory in Teacher’s Law of China. MSc in Law and Society: Governance and Global Development, Leiden, the Netherlands).

Joan Weber (2021-2022, thesis: Online child sexual abuse material in a globalized world: The role of NGOs in the face of the current legal framework. MSc in Law and Society: Governance and Global Development, Leiden, the Netherlands).

Willemijn Vulperhors (2020-2023, thesis: The Lay Judge System in Japan v. Rule of Law. MSc in Law and Society: Governance and Global Development, Leiden, the Netherlands).

Alma Saez (2020-2021, thesis: Feminist activism and social media. MSc in Law and Society: Governance and Global Development, Leiden, the Netherlands).

Ai Hitomi (2017-2018, thesis: The Function of Prosecutoral Review Commissions in Japan. LL.M. in Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights, Leiden, the Netherlands).

Bachelor students (selected)

Hitomi Hirai (2018-2019, thesis: The Death Penalty in Japan. BA in International Justice, Leiden University College the Hague, the Netherlands).

Margarita Avramtcheva (2017-2018, thesis: The Function of Prosecutoral Review Commissions in Japan, BA in International Justice, Leiden University College the Hague, the Netherlands).