Judge Tsend Tsogt, the first graduate of the Asian Satellite Campuses Institute, appointed tothe Supreme Court Justice of Mongolia
The President of Mongolia appointed Tsend Tsogt, a Judge on the Administrative Court ofAppeal of Mongolia, to serve on the country’s Supreme Court on December 15, 2020. He is
the first graduate of the Transnational Doctoral Program for Leading Professionals in AsianCountries at the Asian Satellite Campuses Institute, Nagoya University. He was admitted tothe doctoral program at the Asian Satellite Campuses Institute (ASCI) in October 2014 andwas awarded his LL.D degree in comparative law from the Graduate School of Law, Nagoya
University in 2017, having written his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Professor
Ichihashi Katsuya.
Tsend Tsogt built a celebrated judicial career since 2004 when he was appointed as a judge at
the newly established Administrative Court of Mongolia. He worked for the Administrative
Court and Administrative Court of Appeals of Mongolia for the last sixteen years and has also
been teaching at the National University of Mongolia since 2002. Having served as the Chief
Judge of the Administrative Court of Appeals of Mongolia, he is one of the pioneers in thedevelopment of administrative litigation and judicial review in Mongolia. He has been actively
involved in many professional activities as a member of the Judicial General Council ofMongolia (2004-2006), Board member of the Mongolian Judges’ Association (2009-2017),
the Head of the Judges’ committee (2013-2016), and the Head of the Administrative Law
Committee of the Mongolian Lawyers’ Association (2017-2019). He launched the very first
database providing free-of-charge access to administrative judicial decisions, which eventually
led to the establishment of an open-access database of all judicial decisions in Mongolia. Heestablished the first online research database in Mongolia and has published extensively books
and articles on various issues of administrative law.
ASCI has been established as a core component of Nagoya University’s international outreach
initiatives and has been coordinating the delivery of the Transnational Doctoral Programs forLeading Professionals in Asian Countries. It currently has satellite campuses in Mongolia,
Cambodia, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, the Philippines, and Laos.

♦♦A message from the supervisor, Dr. Katsuya Ichihashi♦♦
I am very pleased to hear the amazing news that Mr. Tsogt Tsend has been appointed asSupreme Court Justice of Mongolia. Because, while he was attending at the program of theAsian Satellite Campuses Institute, I had a hard time with him as a supervisor. At that time, I
remember like yesterday, he was struggling to find research time to write a dissertation whileengaging in the hard work of being a judge of the Ulaanbaatar City Administrative Court ofAppeals. After earning the PhD in 2017 and returning home, he contributed to thedevelopment of Mongolian administrative law as a judge in the administrative court and as ateacher at the National University of Mongolia. And this is his appointment as a Justice of theSupreme Court. It is a heavy responsibility, but my expectations are higher that this work must
be a great opportunity for him to develop the theory and practice of Mongolian administrative
law in a unified manner.

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