CIL is pleased to announce the launch of the webpages of the Centre’s major research project: “ASEAN Integration through Law: The ASEAN Way in a Comparative Context” (ASEAN ITL). The ASEAN ITL research project examines the role of law and the rule of law in Asian legal integration.

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Professor S Jayakumar hosted the second CIL Fireside Chat on International Law and Diplomacy on Friday, 2 March 2012. The topic was on “The Land Reclamation Case: Lessons in Law and Diplomacy”.

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The second installment of CIL’s Fireside Chat Series on International Law and Diplomacy - "The Land Reclamation Case: Lessons in Law and Diplomacy" - took place on 2 March 2012.

The annual Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy will be held from 1-21 July 2012 in Rhodes, Greece. CIL continues its third year of association with the prestigious Academy in accordance with the CIL-Rhodes Academy MOU signed in 2009.

The Centre for International Law (CIL) and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) jointly held a 3-day Workshop on Treaty Law and Practice from 16-19 January 2012.

The first in the Centre for International Law’s Fireside Chat Series on International Law and Diplomacy took place yesterday, 13 January 2012. Professor S. Jayakumar had a frank exchange with students on the topic "Diplomacy and International Law: A Singaporean Perspective".

The S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) of the Nanyang Technological University and the Centre for International Law (CIL) jointly hosted the 4th meeting of the Ocean Policy Institute Network in the East Asian Region (OPINEAR) in Singapore.

CIL is pleased to announced that a Global Associate of our Centre, Ambassador Kriangsak Kittichaisaree of Thailand, has been elected to the International Law Commission (ILC) of the United Nations for a 5-year term.

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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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.

On 25 April 2011, CIL Director Robert Beckman launched Gerd Droesse’s edited volume “Funds for Development: Multilateral Channels of Concessional Financing”. The book examines the concessional windows of the AfDB, ADB, CDB, IFAD, World Bank Group, and other multilateral development banks and financial institutions.

CIL has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the renowned Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea of Utrecht University (NILOS) effective from 1 April 2011.

CIL together with the Korean Society of International Law (KSIL) and the Society of International Law Singapore (SILS) organised a joint international conference on the topic of “Regional Cooperation: Looking Back and Moving Forward”.

CIL and the International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC) jointly organised a 1 ½ day Workshop on the Protection of Submarine Cables on 14-15 April 2011. The Workshop began on the last day of the ICPC Annual Plenary Meeting in Singapore from 12-14 April 2011.

CIL is pleased to have 3 new members to join the CIL Team in March 2011. In addition, CIL welcomes 2 visiting researchers.

CIL and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on 21 March 2011 with a view to developing collaboration on a variety of public international law subjects of mutual interest to both organisations.

A/P Michael Ewing-Chow, Head of CIL’s Trade/Investment Law and Policy and A/P Dora Neo, CIL Associate, were invited by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to participate as experts at the WTO Advanced Regional Workshop on the GATS from 8-10 February 2011 in Singapore.

This inaugural publication of the Centre for International Law (CIL) offers a broad overview of public international law issues that confronted Singapore in its formative years. It gives the general reader a sense of the importance of international law to the life of a small state like Singapore. The volume is dedicated to Mr S Tiwari, a senior adviser to CIL, who passed away on 26 July 2010.

CIL is proud to have become a participating institution of the United Nations Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Fellowship on the Law of the Sea. A Memorandum of Arrangement to the effect was signed in January 2011 by CIL’s Director Prof Robert Beckman and Mr. Serguei Tarassenko, Director of the United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (UNDOALOS).