July 2011

CIL continues its second year of association with the prestigious Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy. At this year’s Academy, CIL Director Prof Robert Beckman was once again invited to join the Faculty. He delivered seminars on the South China Sea claims, provisional measures in maritime delimitation, and submarine cables.

The first book ever published on Asia’s first regional human rights system, Dr Tan’s monograph provides a groundbreaking assessment of the progress in Southeast Asia on human rights beginning in the wake of the ‘Asian values’ debate of the 1990s and culminating in the establishment of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR).