CIL is delighted to announce that Ms Lucy Reed, an internationally renowned practitioner-scholar of international law, will join NUS in July 2016 as Director of CIL. She will also be appointed as the first Professor of Practice at the NUS Faculty of Law. Ms Reed holds degrees from Brown University and Chicago Law School and has been a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer since 1998. Since 2009, she has been helming Freshfields’ global international arbitration group and public international law group. Ms Reed will succeed Associate Professor Robert C. Beckman, who has served with distinction as Director of CIL since its founding in 2009, and who will continue to head its programme on Ocean Law and Policy. He led CIL through a period of extraordinary growth, quickly establishing it as a leader in research and capacity-building in the Asia-Pacific region. To view the Press Release, click here.
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