The Professor Robert Beckman Jessup National Round The legendary 1982 Jessup team, made up of Justice Steven Chong, Mr V K Rajah SC, Mr Davinder Singh SC and Mr Jimmy Yim SC, acknowledges the profound difference that Emeritus Professor Robert Beckman made to their lives in his capacity as a teacher/mentor, by renaming the Singapore …
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Professor S Jayakumar, Chairman of CIL’s International Advisory Panel, has been appointed as NUS Pro-Chancellor. Congratulations Professor! https://news.nus.edu.sg/highlights/professor-s-jayakumar-appointed-nus-pro-chancellor
Robert C Beckman, Head of CIL’s Ocean Law and Policy Programme, has been made an Emeritus Professor of the National University of Singapore. Robert played a transformative role in the lives of virtually all of Singapore’s international lawyers and the many international students with whom he has had contact. His pioneering work on the Jessup …
We are pleased to share with you the warm exchange of letters between Mr Wang Chao, President of the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs and Professor Tommy Koh on the cooperation between China and Singapore against COVID-19. A letter from the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs to Professor Tommy Koh (26 March 2020) …
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The NUS Centre for International Law mourns the passing of a special friend and a wonderful human being, Ambassador Satya Nandan of Fiji. He was a special friend of the Centre because of his deep friendship with Professor S Jayakumar, Professor Tommy Koh and Senior Judge Chao Hick Tin, a friendship forged from the early …
CIL is delighted to welcome Dr Nilüfer Oral as Director. Dr Oral brings invaluable experience as an academic, seasoned negotiator and international law practitioner. She is Turkey’s member of the International Law Commission (ILC), Second Vice-Chair of the ILC, and Co-Chair of the ILC Study Group on Sea-Level Rise in relation to International Law. She …
The CIL Governing Board and staff wish to record our deep and sincere appreciation to Professor Lucy Reed for her outstanding leadership of and contributions to the Centre for the past three and a half years. With her years of experience as an international lawyer and arbitrator, Lucy has brought about many changes to CIL …
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While the government is actively involved in shaping international law through negotiating global legal conventions, private practitioners and academics can also play their part, said Senior Minister of State for Finance and Law Indranee Rajah at CIL’s International Law Year in Review Conference.
CIL is pleased to welcome Professor Lucy Reed, an internationally renowned practitioner-scholar of international law, as the Centre’s new Director. She has also been appointed as the first Professor of Practice at the NUS Faculty of Law. Professor Reed was a partner from 2000-2016 with the international law firm of Freshfields, where she headed the …
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The Maritime Port & Authority of Singapore, organiser of the Singapore Maritime Week 2016, invited CIL to an Appreciation Reception held on 25 May 2016 at Raffles Hotel’s Halia Restaurant. The CIL-MPA Oceans Governance Research Programme was established to focus on three areas: Arctic shipping governance, transit passage regimes under UNCLOS and marine environmental governance. …
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Signing Ceremony The Centre for International Law (CIL) of the National University of Singapore (NUS) received a three-year research grant from the Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI) supported by the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) to establish the CIL-MPA Oceans Governance Research Programme. Research activities under the programme will focus on three areas: Arctic shipping governance; …
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The Centre for International Law (CIL) of the National University of Singapore (NUS) received a three-year research grant from the Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI) supported by the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) to establish the CIL-MPA Oceans Governance Research Programme. Research activities under the programme will focus on three areas: Arctic shipping governance; transit passage …
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CIL is delighted to announce that Ms Lucy Reed, an internationally renowned practitioner-scholar of international law, will join NUS in July 2016 as Director of CIL. She will also be appointed as the first Professor of Practice at the NUS Faculty of Law. Ms Reed holds degrees from Brown University and Chicago Law School and …
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CIL was officially launched on 30th October 2009 at the NUS Bukit Timah Campus by Senior Minister Professor S Jayakumar.