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Dr Hoko Horii

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Dr
Hoko Horii
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Born1990-07-19
🏳️ CitizenshipDutch, Japanese
🏫 EducationPh.D. in Law (2020) — Leiden University (Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society, in collaboration with KITLV), Netherlands. Thesis: Child Marriage as a Choice: Rethinking Agency in International Human Rights (defended 18 March 2020). Supervisors: Prof. Adriaan Bedner and Prof. Gerry van Klinken. LL.M. (Master of Laws) (2015) — Nagoya University, Japan. Field: Comparative Law and Politics / Cross-Border Legal Institution Design. LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws) (2013) — Keio University, Japan. Focus: International Law and Law and Development.
💼 Occupation
Law Professor
🌐 Websitehttps://hokohorii.com/

Hoko Horii is a Leiden Law School professor and author.[1] She wrote Child Marriage, Rights and Choice (2021)[2] and co-edited Marrying young in Indonesia (2020).[3][4][5]

Early life and education

Hoko Horii was born in Japan and initially pursued a traditional legal career path. She earned her Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Keio University (2009–2013), focusing on international law and law and development. She then obtained her Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Nagoya University (2013–2015) in the field of comparative law and politics, with a thesis examining difficulties in implementing international human rights laws in Indonesia’s pluralistic legal system, particularly issues of child marriage in West Java.

Her interest in legal pluralism was sparked by hands-on international development projects in Jakarta, Indonesia, where she observed the coexistence and primacy of customary and religious law alongside state law. She completed her Ph.D. in 2020 at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society, Leiden University, in collaboration with the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). Her dissertation, titled Child Marriage as a Choice: Rethinking Agency in International Human Rights, was supervised by Adriaan Bedner and Gerry van Klinken (G.A. van Klinken). The work drew on extensive fieldwork in Indonesia and was later published as a monograph.[6]

Career

Horii began her academic career with a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellowship at Kobe University (2020–2023), where her project examined the role of law in balancing protection and agency for children through comparative studies of age-of-consent laws in Japan, Indonesia, and the Netherlands. She conducted court observations and interviews as part of this research.

She has held teaching and research positions at the Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden University (lecturer 2020–2023; assistant professor thereafter), Sciences Po (Paris), Sophia University (Tokyo), and the University of Indonesia (Jakarta). She currently serves as Assistant Professor at the Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden Law School, teaching courses such as Law and Society in Japan, Law and Culture, Law and Gender, Law, Gender, Race & Intersectionality, and Law and Governance in Asia. She emphasizes dialogue, co-creation of knowledge, and facilitation techniques, and is completing professional facilitator training with ICA Associates.

Horii is an editorial board member of the Asian Journal of Law and Society (since 2023) and advisory board member of Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde (BKI, since 2021). She coordinates the international research group Intimate Legal Interactions (ILI) and has received grants from the Toyota Foundation, the Canadian Embassy in Jakarta, Leiden University’s Asian Modernities and Traditions program, and others. She has also worked on development projects in Jakarta (Indonesia), Cebu (Philippines), and Yangon (Myanmar), and continues to volunteer at a shelter for adolescents while engaging with journalists and civil society.[7]

Research

Horii’s scholarship lies at the intersection of socio-legal studies, legal philosophy, human rights law, and children’s rights. Her work critically interrogates how law constructs notions of rights, agency, consent, and “righteousness,” particularly in regulating intimate relationships. Her doctoral research and monograph challenged Western-centric assumptions in international human rights campaigns against child marriage, highlighting children’s own perspectives, legal pluralism in Indonesia, and the gap between global norms and local practices in Bali and West Java.

Postdoctoral work focused on age-of-consent laws and the legal construction of consent in cases of child sexual abuse, comparing Japan, Indonesia, and the Netherlands. Her current major project, “Intimacy Outlawed,” investigates how individuals in polyamorous and other non-normative intimate relationships navigate state law, exploring trade-offs between protection, privacy, equality, and freedom. She conducts empirical research through court observations, interviews with legal practitioners, activists, and youth, and collaborates with scholars across Canada, France, Spain, Belgium, Indonesia, Japan, and the Netherlands. She also organizes international workshops on contested agency in human rights.

Personal life

Horii is the mother of a nine-year-old daughter who is Japanese, French, and Syrian and speaks multiple languages. She enjoys reading novels, visiting museums, playing tennis, climbing mountains, and engaging in philosophical and feminist discussions with her child while watching Disney movies. She continues to volunteer at a shelter for adolescents and incorporates marginalized voices into her academic and public work.[8]

Publications

Horii has produced a substantial body of work, including a monograph, edited volumes, numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, translations, and reviews. The following is the complete list of her scientific publications (as of March 2026), compiled from her official website, Leiden University staff profile, and ORCID records. All peer-reviewed items are included with full citation details where available.

Monograph

  • Horii, Hoko (2021). Child Marriage, Rights and Choice: Rethinking Agency in International Human Rights. Routledge, Oxon & New York. (Based on her 2020 Ph.D. dissertation; DOI: 10.4324/9781003184546).

Edited books

  • Grijns, Mies; Horii, Hoko; Irianto, Sulistyowati; Saptandari, Pinky (eds.) (2019). Marrying Young in Indonesia: Voices, Laws and Practices (English edition; translated from the 2018 Indonesian version). Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia, Jakarta / ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore. (Reprint edition noted in some catalogues as 2020).
  • Grijns, Mies; Horii, Hoko; Irianto, Sulistyowati; Saptandari, Pinky (eds.) (2018). Menikah Muda di Indonesia: Suara, Hukum, dan Praktik. Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia, Jakarta.

Peer-reviewed articles

  • Horii, Hoko (2024). “Law’s drawing line: Legal discourse of consent in child sexual abuse cases in Japan”. Children & Society 38(6): 2052–2070.
  • Horii, Hoko (2024). “The Limits of Sexual Autonomy for Minors: Debating Age of Consent Laws”. InterGentes: The McGill Journal of International Law & Legal Pluralism 3(2).
  • van Daalen, Edward & Horii, Hoko (2024). “Human Rights and Contested Agency”. InterGentes: The McGill Journal of International Law & Legal Pluralism 3(2).
  • Horii, Hoko & Bouland, Annelien (2023). “Drafting New Rape Law: How Dutch Legislators Talk About Sexual Consent”. Recht der Werkelijkheid 44(1): 14–38.
  • Horii, Hoko & Hirai, Hitomi (2023). “Public Support for the Death Penalty in Japan: The ‘Impermeability’ Model and the Symbolic Power of the Legal Regime”. Australian Journal of Asian Law 24(1): 1–27.
  • Horii, Hoko & Wirastri, Theresia Dyah (2022). “Living in a legal limbo: mechanisms to ‘fix’ the legal and social positions of unregistered children in Indonesia”. The Indonesian Journal of Socio-Legal Studies 2(1): 1–25.
  • Horii, Hoko (2021). “Child marriage as a ‘solution’ to modern youth in Bali”. Progress in Development Studies 20(4): 282–295 (first published online 2020).
  • Horii, Hoko (2020). “Legal Reasoning for Legitimation of Child Marriage in West Java: Accommodation of Local Norms at Islamic Courts and the Paradox of Child Protection”. Journal of Human Rights Practice 12(3): 501–523.
  • Horii, Hoko (2020). “Walking a thin line: Taking children’s decision to marry seriously?”. Childhood 27(2): 254–270.
  • Horii, Hoko (2020). “Child marriage as a ‘solution’ to modern youth in Bali”. Progress in Development Studies (online version).
  • Horii, Hoko (2019). “A blind spot in international human rights framework: a space between tradition and modernity within the child marriage discourse”. The International Journal of Human Rights 24(8): 1057–1079.
  • Horii, Hoko (2019). “Pluralistic legal system, pluralistic human rights?: teenage pregnancy, child marriage and legal institutions in Bali”. The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 51(3): 292–319.
  • Grijns, Mies & Horii, Hoko (2018). “Child Marriage in a Village in West Java (Indonesia): Compromises between Legal Obligations and Religious Concerns”. Asian Journal of Law and Society 5(2): 453–466.
  • Horii, Hoko (2018). “Child marriage, not all alike”. Inside Indonesia 134.
  • Horii, Hoko (2016). “Pluralisme dans la pratique juridique: étude de cas légaux sur le mariage des mineurs à Java Ouest”. NU Ideas 5(1): 6–15.
  • Horii, Hoko (co-translator with Hiroko Ito) (2014–2015). Series on Asian family law (volumes 60–64) and Indonesian family law (parts 1–5), translations of works by Euis Nurlaelawati (Japanese journal series).

Book chapters

  • Grijns, Mies & Horii, Hoko (2024). “When do ‘children’ become ‘adults’?: Transitions in children’s rights and child marriage”. In: Salvador Santino F. Regilme (ed.), Children’s Rights in Crisis: Multidisciplinary, Transnational, and Comparative Perspectives. Manchester University Press, pp. 195–214.
  • Horii, Hoko & Grijns, Mies (2019). “Introduction”. In: Marrying Young in Indonesia: Voices, Laws and Practices, pp. 1–36.
  • Horii, Hoko & Grijns, Mies (2018). “Pendahuluan” (Introduction). In: Menikah Muda di Indonesia: Suara, Hukum, dan Praktik, pp. 1–42.

Book reviews and debates

  • van Klinken, Gerry; Horii, Hoko; da Silva, Antero Benedito; Niner, Sara; Peake, Gordon (2023). “Debate on Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor, 2000–2017”. Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde 179(2): 247–268.
  • Horii, Hoko (2018). Review of Marriage, Gender and Islam in Indonesia: Women Negotiating Informal Marriage, Divorce, and Desire by Maria Platt. Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde 174: 345–347.

Other scholarly outputs

  • Horii, Hoko (2022). “Workshop on human rights and contested agency”. Leiden Law Blog (31 October 2022).
  • Horii, Hoko (2020). “Adolescents’ ‘consent’ to sex: Law and morality in the age of consent laws”. Leiden Law Blog (20 May 2020).

Awards and honors

  • ICAS Book Prize (2021) – long-listed for best dissertation in English.
  • Van Wersch Springplank Prize (2020) – Leiden University (5,000 euros).
  • Meijers Prize (2020) – Leiden Law School for best academic paper (500 euros).

References

  1. ↑ "Hoko Horii". Leiden University. Retrieved 2025-07-23.
  2. ↑ van Daalen, Edward (2023-06-21). "H. Horii, Child Marriage, Rights and Choice: Rethinking Agency in International Human Rights". The International Journal of Children's Rights. 31 (2): 525–529. doi:10.1163/15718182-31020003. ISSN 0927-5568.
  3. ↑ Mu, Zheng (2020-12-04). "Marrying young in Indonesia: Voices, laws and practices, by Mies Grijns, Hoko Horii, Sulistyowati Irianto, and Pinky Saptandari (eds.)". Asian Journal of Social Science. 48 (5–6): 654–657. doi:10.1163/15685314-04805012. ISSN 1568-4849.
  4. ↑ Saptari, Ratna (2021-03-03). "Menikah Muda di Indonesia: Suara, Hukum dan Praktek, by Mies Grijns, Hoko Horii, Sulistyowati Irianto, and Pinky Saptandari (eds)". Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia. 177 (1): 147–149. doi:10.1163/22134379-17701008. ISSN 0006-2294.
  5. ↑ Utomo, Ariane (2020-10-01). "Marrying young in Indonesia: voices, laws, practices: edited by Mies Grijns, Hoko Horii, Sulistyowati Irianto, and Pinky Saptandary, Singapore, ISEAS Publishing, 2020, xxi + 336 pp., SGD27.71 (pbk), ISBN 978-981-4881-25-8". South East Asia Research. 28 (4): 491–493. doi:10.1080/0967828X.2020.1827857. ISSN 0967-828X.
  6. ↑ "Child marriage as a choice: rethinking agency in international human rights". Scholarly Publications Leiden University. Retrieved 2026-03-17.
  7. ↑ "CV". hokohorii.com. Retrieved 2026-03-17.
  8. ↑ Horii, Hoko. "Hoko Horii – 堀井穂子". hokohorii.com. Retrieved 2026-03-17.


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