The Centre for International Law is pleased to announce the selection of the first batch of CIL Overseas Interns. Law Year 3 and Year 4 students Ms Sadhana Rai, Mr Alvin Yap, Ms Dharshini Prasad and Mr Ramu Nachiappan have been given the opportunity to intern with leading international institutions. Dharshini will assist Ambassador Kriangsak Kittichaisaree at the United Nations International Law Commission (ILC) in Geneva. Alvin and Ramu will work with the Khmer Rouge Tribunal Monitoring Team in Phnom Penh. Sadhana will assist the ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network (ASEAN-WEN) in Bangkok. For more information, click here.
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CIL was pleased to host the visit of Judge Rüdiger Wolfrum, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Germany, to the Centre as a distinguished visitor from 16-19 April 2012. Professor Wolfrum has been a member of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) since 1996 and served as its President from 2005-2008. Judge Wolfrum delivered a talk on the dispute concerning the delimitation of the maritime boundary between Bangladesh and Myanmar in the Bay of Bengal on 17 April 2012 as part of the CIL Distinguished Speaker Series. He also met NUS senior management, CIL’s partner organisations and senior government officials during his visit to Singapore. For more information about Judge Wolfrum's seminar, 
CIL held the 3rd Fireside Chat on "Territorial Disputes in Asia: Lessons from Pedra Branca" on 30 March 2012. The talk explored Singapore’s first experience in international litigation when Singapore and Malaysia agreed to submit their sovereignty dispute over Pedra Branca, Middle Rocks and South Ledge to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). This instalment of CIL's Fireside Chat Series was hosted by Professor Tommy Koh and featured a Panel composed of Professor S Jayakumar, the Honourable Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong and CIL Director Professor Robert Beckman. For more information, 
CIL Research Fellow T Davenport participated at the Annual Plenary Meeting of the ICPC in Lisbon, Portugal. 
CIL Research Fellow Dr Tan and CIL Research Associates L Bernard and R Yusran, participated in the 106th Meeting of the ASIL in Washington, USA. 
CIL Director Robert Beckman presented a paper on 20 April 2012 at the Plenary Meeting of the Trilateral Commission in Tokyo, Japan. 
CIL Director Robert Beckman presented a paper on “Cooperation to Combat ‘Piracy’ in Southeast Asia” at an int’l seminar in Bandung, Indonesia. 
CIL Director Beckman and CIL Research Fellow Tara Davenport participated in a South China Sea Workshop at the RSIS, Singapore. 
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