CIL is pleased to announce that our Research Fellow Dr. Hao Duy Phan has won the Best Oralist Award at the 18th session of the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy, which took place from 30 June -20 July 2013 in Rhodes, Greece.

CIL launched the findings of one of its flagship research projects "ASEAN Integration Through Law: The ASEAN Way in a Comparative Context" on 4 July 2013. This Plenary on "The General Architecture of ASEAN" focused on the political and economic aspirations of ASEAN and the domestic and regional institutions which play a part in the region's community-building.

Students from the Graduate School of Politics, Government and Communication, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), South Korea, visited CIL on 26 June 2013.

Mr Youri van Logchem, a PhD Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS), received the 2013 ICPC-Rhodes Academy Writing Competition on Submarine Cables and International Law award from the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy and the International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC).

CIL hosted a visit by Mr Evan Rogerson, Director of Agriculture and Commodities Division of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on 19 June 2013.

The NUS Centre for International Law is pleased to announce that it has been accepted as a full sponsor of the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy.

CIL is pleased to announce that one of its Researchers, Ms. Harpreet Kaur Dhillon, is the recipient of the first prize in an essay competition jointly organised by the Singapore branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Thirty Nine Essex Street Chambers. The competition targets young practitioners working or resident in Singapore, giving them an opportunity to air their views on a critical issue which has arisen in the developing field of international arbitration.

CIL hosted a visit by the students and lecturers of Udayana University, Faculty of Law, Bali, Indonesia on 23 May 2013.

Senior Principal Research Fellow Mr. Christopher Thomas, QC, was invited by Thailand’s Department of International Economic Affairs to participate in a panel discussion on 27 March 2013 organised by the Thailand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, together with the Royal Thai Embassy in Brussels and the Mission of Thailand to the European Union, on the issue of investor-state dispute settlement under the current EU investment regime.

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A 20-member delegation from Office of the Council of State of Thailand headed by Deputy Secretary-General Mr Chukiert Ratanachaichan visited CIL on 23 April 2013.

Prof Surya Subedi, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Cambodia, visited CIL on 8 April 2013.