Robert Beckman, Bikashita Choudhury, Amanda Wee and Yulu Liu contributed two blogs to the CIL-NCLOS Dialogue Symposium 2026 CIL Ocean Law and Policy has published two blog posts, forming part of the CIL-NCLOS Dialogue Symposium 2026, on the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea (NCLOS) Blog. The symposium follows after the CIL-NCLOS Dialogue […]
On 26 June 2026, Prof Robert Beckman and Prof Tommy Koh responded to Arif Havas Oegroseno’s Commentary “The Sea Denial Trap: Why the Age of Unrestricted Sea Power Is Ending” Click here to find their response.
CIL Research Associate Chau Do published an op-ed entitled “Are China-Philippines tensions sinking the South China Sea Code of Conduct?”. This op-ed examines the renewed frictions between China and the Philippines and how these frictions are not facilitating are not facilitating for a conducive environment needed for COC negotiations. It argues that the act of
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Liu Yulu CIL Research Fellow Liu Yulu has contributed a chapter titled Singapore: City-State’s Comprehensive Countermeasures to Plastic Pollution Management to the recently released book, Plastic Pollution Countermeasures: Effective Global Actions and Case Studies from East Asia, edited by Fusanori Iwasaki et al and published by the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia.
Dr. Youna Lyons, Senior Global Fellow, then Visiting Associate Professor (Research), at CIL, served as Coordinating Author for Section 3: “A Global Overview of Ocean Governance” in the Third World Ocean Assessment (WOA III). In this role, she led a multidisciplinary and regionally diverse team of experts that reviewed the complex legal and institutional frameworks
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CIL Ocean Law & Policy Research Assistant Amanda Wee spoke at the 2nd International Energy and Climate Law Forum held at the University of Oslo on 11 June 2026. She spoke in Session II (Carbon Capture and Storage) on intergenerational equity and offshore geological carbon storage. Her presentation highlighted the importance and relevance of intergenerational
28 May 2026: CIL Director, Dr Nilufer Oral was Invited to Speak at the Pacific Climate Justice & Sea Level Rise Week Organized by the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat, Suva, Fiji. The Pacific Climate Justice & Sea Level Rise Week convened for May 25–28, 2026, at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat in Suva, Fiji. This
CIL Ocean Law and Policy Co-Head Zhen Sun participated as a speaker in the Oil Spill Management Symposium: Building Knowledge, Bridging Stakeholders organised by the National Parks from 16-17 May 2026. She delivered a presentation on “International Legal Framework of Oil Spill Incidents at Sea”. Her presentation examines the international legal framework governing oil spill
CIL Research Fellow Dr Su Wai Mon undertook a research visit to the Cyber-SHIP Lab at University of Plymouth, a unique hardware-based maritime cybersecurity research and development platform. The visit aimed to deepen her understanding of the technical foundations of cyber risks in the maritime domain, thereby strengthening the practical grounding of her legal and
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CIL Research Fellow Dr Su Wai Mon was invited to serve as a Panel Assessor for the PhD Candidature Defence Seminar on the thesis titled “Cybersecurity Strategy in Securing Malaysia’s National Critical Information Infrastructure (NCII)”, organised by the Department of International and Strategic Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya. The seminar was
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