Christine Sim

• Passed, not yet certified, New York State bar 
• Advocate and Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore
• Non-Practising Member, Law Society of Singapore
• Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb)
• Certified Tribunal Secretary, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC)
• Member, International Law Association (Singapore branch)

Christine completed her LLM in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) at the Graduate Institute and the University of Geneva in Switzerland in 2015, after obtaining her LLB at the National University of Singapore.

She specialised in procedural issues and dispute resolution focusing on public international law and private international law, including inter-State disputes, investment disputes,  international commercial arbitration, ethics in international arbitration, the New York Convention, the ICSID Convention, WTO law and international commercial litigation. 

Her research interests are broad, including:

• International Dispute Resolution
• International Investment Law and Arbitration
• International Commercial Arbitration
• Public International Law
• Maritime Boundary Delimitation
• UNCLOS Dispute Settlement

‘Ex Post Information in Investment Arbitration—Interpreting Chorzów Factory’ ICSID Review (advance access January 2018)

‘Will Artificial Intelligence Take over Arbitration?’ Asian Journal of International Arbitration (forthcoming, 2018)

‘Security for Costs in Investor–State Disputes’ (2017) 33(3) Arbitration International 427–495

‘Investment Disputes in Areas of Unsettled Boundaries: Ghana / Côte d’Ivoire’ (2018) 11 (1) Journal of World Energy Law and Business 1–16 

‘Using Costs Orders to Regulate Third Party Funding’ (2018)  20(1) Asian Dispute Review 12–19

‘Introduction to the Special Volume on Investment Treaty Appellate Mechanisms’ (2017) 32(3) ICSID Review (co-authored with Meg Kinnear)

‘A Potential Investment Treaty Appellate Body: Open Questions’ (2017) 32(3) ICSID Review (co-authored with Lucy Reed)

‘The International Reach of the Singapore Mediation Act’ Kluwer Mediation Blog (19 December 2017)

‘Scope of Optional Exclusions from UNCLOS Compulsory Dispute Settlement’ academic consultant presenting recommendations for Center for Korean Legal Studies at Columbia Law School and Korean Institute for Ocean Science and Technology (New York, 13 October 2017)

‘Maritime Boundary Disputes and Compulsory Dispute Settlement: Recent Developments and Unresolved Issues’, Chapter 10 in Legal Order in the World’s Oceans (Brill 2017) (co-authored with Robert Beckman)

‘Philippines v China: Implications for a Potential Korea-Japan Dispute over Dokdo’, presentation and paper contribution to Center for Korean Legal Studies at Columbia Law School and Korean Institute for Ocean Science and Technology (New York, 8 September 2016) (co-authored with Robert Beckman)

‘The Paradox of Legal Aid in Singapore: Civil Legal Aid Without Criminal Legal Aid’ (2012) 30 Sing. L. Rev. 165 (co-authored with Tan Zhi Feng)

‘Investment Disputes and Challenging Boundary Issues over Land and Sea’ upcoming presentation at ILA Biennial Conference  (Sydney, 19–24 August 2018)

‘Maritime Boundary Disputes and Article 298 of UNCLOS’ Asian Society of International Law 6th Biennial Conference, Junior Scholars Workshop (Seoul, 24–26 August 2017)

‘Architecture of a World Investment Court: Where does the New York Convention fit in?’ presentation at the conference ’60 Years of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: Key Issues and Future Challenges’ (Seville, 6 April 2018)

‘ICSID Conciliation’ presentation at American Society of International Law and University of Missouri Dispute Resolution Works-in-Progress Conference (2–3 February 2017)

‘Strategies for Addressing Human Rights Law in Investment Arbitration’, presentation at Ethics and Economics International Conference Singapore University of Technology and Design, 19-20 January 2017)

‘The Essence of Adjudication: Case Managers in International Arbitration’ presentation at conference on ‘Unseen Actors’, Pluricouts and Leiden Europa Instituut (The Hague, 26–27 October 2017)

‘Artificial Intelligence and International Arbitration’ presentation and panel discussion at the NUS School of Computing Workshop on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in AI and Big Data (Singapore, 15-19 July 2017)

‘Tribunal Secretaries: Best Practices in International Arbitration’ panel discussion at the Centre for Advanced Research in Dispute Settlement conference (Singapore, 13 December 2017)