{{Short description|Japanese judge (1924–2025)}} {{Expand Japanese|topic=bio|小田滋|date=May 2024}} {{No footnotes|date=February 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox judge | honorific_prefix = | name = Shigeru Oda | native_name = {{nobold|小田 滋}} | honorific_suffix = | image = Shigeru Oda cropped Shigeru Oda 19941212.jpg | alt = | caption = | office = Judge on the International Court of Justice | term_start = 1976 | term_end = 2003 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1924|10|22|df=y}} | birth_place = Sapporo, Japan | death_date = {{Death date and age|2025|09|04|1924|10|22|df=y}} | death_place = | nominator = <!--Can be repeated up to 16 times by changing the number--> | appointer = <!--Can be repeated up to 16 times by changing the number--> | predecessor = <!--Can be repeated up to 16 times by changing the number--> | successor = <!--Can be repeated up to 16 times by changing the number--> }}
{{nihongo|'''Shigeru Oda'''|小田 滋|Oda Shigeru|22 October 1924 – 4 September 2025}} was a Japanese jurist who was a judge on the International Court of Justice from 1976 until 2003, when he retired. He served as vice-president from 1991 to 1994. His main area of expertise was law of the sea. He was born in Sapporo.
Oda earned his law degree from the University of Tokyo in 1947 and his doctorate in law from Yale Law School in 1953. He turned 100 in October 2024.<ref>{{cite news |title=ICJの小田元裁判官が100歳に 「知恵あり誠実」 |url=https://www.sankei.com/article/20241023-AIWFVHTGMBOURLYUQR2WJGPPYY/ |access-date=28 October 2024 |publisher=The Sankei Shimbun |date=23 October 2024}}</ref> Oda died on 4 September 2025, at the age of 100.<ref>{{Cite web |title=国際司法裁判所元副所長の小田滋さん死去（共同通信） |url=https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/9a23ae913295d7ce972cff2aa2fa013e6f0630c0 |access-date=9 September 2025 |website=Yahoo!ニュース |language=ja}}</ref>
==See also== * ''Nicaragua v. United States''
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==External links== * {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020220172201/http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/igeneralinformation/icvjudge/Oda.htm |date=20 February 2002 |title=Official biography }}
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