Mr Peter Ho, the former Head of the Singapore Civil Service and the former Permanent Secretary of the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs, spoke on the importance of international law for Singapore's foreign policy on 14 January 2011.

On 13 December 2010, Assoc Prof Michael Ewing-Chow, Head, CIL Trade/Investment Law and Policy, advised the members of the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR) on the legal implications and policy options for the food security agreement and its consistency with their existing trade obligations.

On 18 November 2010, Prof Alan Tan, head of CIL’s Air Law and Policy Programme, was invited by the Indonesian Directorate-General for Civil Aviation (DGCA) to address the Indonesian aviation community on an ASEAN Open Skies Policy.

Ms Tara Davenport, a research associate at CIL, has received a monetary prize of £1000 for a paper she submitted on submarine cables and international law. Tara’s paper, entitled "Submarine Cables: Problems in Law and Practice", was unanimously selected by the judges for first place.

CIL has been organising a groundbreaking South China Sea (SCS) Seminar Series. CIL’s SCS Seminar Series provides a select audience of researchers, policymakers and students the various Claimant States’ and Indonesia’s perspectives on the South China Sea territorial claims.

On 11 November 2010, CIL was honoured to welcome Dr Francis Deng, United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, as CIL’s third speaker in its Distinguished Speaker Series.

CIL organised the inaugural event of its 'ASEAN Charter Series' on 16 August 2010. The Regional Workshop on "Implementing Legal Personality and Privileges & Immunities" was opened by Prof Tommy Koh.

CIL was host to the International Law Panel of the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) 2010 on 23 August 2010.

CIL is proud to announce that Ms Sari Aziz, a Research Associate at CIL, will be taking up the post of Associate Legal Officer at the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in The Hague.

Pursuant to a memorandum of understanding between the Rhodes Academy and CIL, CIL sponsored two students to attend the Rhodes Academy this year, Dr Nguyen Thi Lan Anh, Vice Dean of the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam and Tara Davenport, Research Associate at CIL. CIL Director, Associate Professor Robert Beckman, also taught three classes on maritime security, the Straits of Malacca and submarine cables.

CIL Director Prof Robert Beckman conducted an “Introduction to International Law” course for the MFA Diplomatic Academy on 24-25 June 2010. Participants included policy and legal officers from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Trade & Industry, Ministry of Defense...

CIL is sad to announce the passing of Mr S. Tiwari, a senior advisor to the Centre. Our deepest sympathies and condolences are with Mr. Tiwari’s family.