ASEAN Law and Policy
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
