Nagi Koriki

Nagi Koriki is a DPhil candidate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS), University of Oxford, and Oxford-Uehiro Graduate Scholar, supervised by Professor Fernanda Pirie. His research investigates the emergence and maintenance of order across different scales of human organisation, from international institutions to autonomous communities, examining what law symbolises within these social contexts. His work combines approaches from legal anthropology and public international law.

Strongly motivated by the 2011 tsunami and nuclear accident that have been severely affecting his mother's hometown in coastal Fukushima, he moved to Germany at age 18. He completed his BA in Political Science at the Otto Suhr Institute, Freie Universität Berlin (2022), followed by an MSc at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2023) and an MA at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2024).

His academic trajectory bridges multiple disciplines, including legal and political theory, anthropology, and international relations. He examines how concepts of order, self-determination, and sovereignty operate in practice across contexts where state authority manifests in varying degrees of presence and absence.