Assoc Prof Michael Ewing-Chow and Research Fellow Geraldine Fischer were consulted by Prof Sophia Listrani of Syiah Kuala University in Aceh about developing the first course on International Investment Law to be taught in English in Indonesia.

Mr Bilahari Kausikan, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore, delivered a motivating career talk on 19 October 2011 as a CIL Distinguished Speaker.

CIL is proud to announce that its own Head of Trade and Investment Law and Policy, Assoc Prof Michael Ewing-Chow, was selected to represent Singapore as a World Trade Organisation (WTO) chair, one of only 15 WTO chairs in the world.

CIL welcomed its first United Nations Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Fellow on the Law of the Sea, Ms Sri Asih Roza Nova of Indonesia, in September 2011. The Fellowship is intended to advance the proficiency and capability of government officials, research fellows or academics from developing countries who are involved in the law of the sea or ocean affairs.

CIL and the International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU) of Durham University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on 19 September 2011. The MOU enabled CIL to bring IBRU’s celebrated training workshop on International Maritime Boundaries Delimitation to Asia and Singapore for the first time this year with another run planned for next year.

We are pleased to announce that former Senior Minister Professor S Jayakumar, who has returned to the NUS Faculty of Law upon his retirement from politics, has agreed to provide guidance and advice to the Centre for International Law (CIL).

A conference report on the CIL Conference on Joint Development and the South China Sea is now ready for download in PDF format.

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).

CIL organized a two day Conference on Joint Development and the South China Sea on the 16th and 17th of June 2011. The Conference brought together international legal experts on joint development and law of the sea, representatives from the oil and gas industry and Government Officials from the region to examine the law and policy issues relating to the joint development of oil and gas resources in areas of overlapping claims in the South China Sea.

CIL hosted a 2-day closed-door international conference on Joint Development and the South China Sea from 16-17 June 2011 at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel. Professor S. Jayakumar, the Patron of CIL, was the Guest-of-Honour.

CIL hosted the 2nd Singapore Conference on International Investment Arbitration on 31 May 2011. As with the inaugural conference in 2010, the second conference was organised to be back to back with the Singapore International Arbitration Forum.