CIL Dialogues
An International Law Blog
CIL Dialogues is the re-imagination of the existing blog of the Centre for International Law (CIL) of the National University of Singapore (NUS). The editorial team’s approach to CIL Dialogues reflects two shared commitments. First, we share a generalist perspective of international law, viewed as raising shared foundational questions across specialised fields, institutions, regions, and inquiries. Secondly, we are appreciative that CIL Dialogues is not based in (the virtual space of), or associated with institutions in the ‘Western European and Others States Group’. The blog will therefore be interested in international law broadly conceived and seek to be attentive to regional perspectives to questions of universal and general relevance, particularly relating to Asia Pacific, as well as the views and voices that may have been traditionally excluded. More...
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Benefit v Consent: CJEU’s Front Polisario II Judgment and the Law of Self-Determination
by Andrea Maria Pelliconi and Jed Odermatt
CIL organized a Workshop on International Maritimes Crimes: Legal Issues and Prospects for Co-operation in ASEAN on 17-18 January in Singapore. The Workshop brought together international experts on the law of sea and transnational crimes, government officials from the 10 ASEAN countries and academics from around the world.
The ASEAN Economic Community Law and Policy course was launched on January 11th 2011 in the Faculty of Law, NUS. This is the first course in the world on ASEAN EC Law and it seeks to address the increasing integration and legalization efforts of ASEAN after the ASEAN Charter was ratified in 2008.
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.
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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.
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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.
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CIL was host to the International Law Panel of the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) 2010 on 23 August 2010.
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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.
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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.
CIL participated in the Asian Society of International Law and Indonesian Society of International Law (ISIL) Conference, “International Law as a Political Instrument?” in Jakarta on 10 June 2010.
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CIL co-organised the prestigious International Conference on Air Transport, Air Law and Regulation conference with McGill University’s Institute of Air & Space Law (IASL) and the Singapore Aviation Academy (SAA) from 24 to 26 May 2010.
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The Protocol to the ASEAN Charter on Dispute Settlement Mechanisms (“Protocol”) was concluded by the Foreign Ministers of ASEAN in Ha Noi, Vietnam on 8 April, 2010. This is a significant step forward towards a rules based community.
CIL launched its Distinguished Speaker Series with Dr Patrick Low, Chief Economist of the World Trade Organization (WTO), as the Centre’s first CIL Distinguished Speaker.
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CIL is pleased to report that its newly launched Documents Database has been incorporated into the NUS Libraries Electronic Databases and the ASEAN Law Association’s (ALA) list of Legal Resources in Singapore. We hope this will help to further promote the CIL Documents Database and make it more accessible to policy-makers, diplomats, international civil servants, …
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CIL officially launched its Documents Database on 18 March 2010. The event was graced by His Excellency Mr Bagas Hapsoro, ASEAN’s Deputy Secretary-General, who specially made the journey from Jakarta to speak at the launch.
CIL has implemented a number of measures to help fight climate change and promote environmental sustainability.
On 11 January 2010, a CIL team led by Director Prof Robert Beckman made a day-trip to the ASEAN Secretariat (ASEC) in Jakarta to introduce the ASEAN component of the CIL Documents Database to key persons at ASEC and discuss possible collaboration between CIL and ASEC.
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STATEMENT FROM THE PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE 1. Prof Walter Woon Cheong Ming was appointed the Attorney-General on 11 April 2008 for a period of two years. His current term of office expires on 10 April 2010. He has decided to return to the Law Faculty of the National University of Singapore to resume his teaching …
Statement from PM’s office praises AG Walter Woon for playing key role in setting up CIL Read More »
EXTRACT FROM THE SPEECH OF ATTORNEY GENERAL PROF WALTER WOON AT THE OPENING OF THE LEGAL YEAR 2010, 9 JANUARY 2010. 9. One of the projects that did finally come to fruition in 2009 was the Centre for International Law. This has been a long time in gestation. The CIL was finally launched in October …
Attorney-General Prof Walter Woon’s comments on CIL at the opening of legal year 2010. Read More »
CIL organised a global conference on International Investment Arbitration on 20 January 2010 at the Supreme Court of Singapore. The conference brought together more than 160 international law experts and practitioners from Asia, Europe and the Americas.
On 14-15 December 2009, CIL organised and hosted a Workshop on Submarine Cables and the Law of the Sea in close cooperation with the International Cables Protection Committee (ICPC) and other co-sponsors.