Shuichi Furuya is a professor at Waseda Law School, and a member of the UN Human Rights Committee and of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission under the 1st Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions. He was a Co-Rapporteur of the ILA Committee on Reparation for Victims of Armed Conflict (2004–14). From the perspective of both international human rights law and humanitarian law, he is an expert on reparations issues.