ICJ Judge Bogdan Aurescu on Climate Change, Sea-Level Rise, the ICJ and the ILC: the purpose, the journey, the outcome 10 February 2026, 5pm – 6.30pm, WongPartnership LLP Seminar Room, 12 Marina Boulevard Level 28, Marina Bay Financial Centre, Tower 3, Singapore 018982 INTRODUCTION This lecture presents the complexity of the activity of the International […]
The lecture will be moderated by Emeritus Professor Robert Beckman, Co-Head of the Ocean Law and Policy Programme at the NUS Centre for International Law. Click Here To Register The presentation will focus on the uniqueness of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago particularly the reality that it is an Indigenous homeland (Inuit Nunaagat). Authority to govern
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Introduction: The theory of facilitative compliance is attractive. And in practice the idea that we can address non-compliance issues by assisting treaty parties in a dialogical and hands-on way to deal with technical, financial and political constraints has proved valuable. Yet until recently facilitative compliance has often been accompanied by the potential to impose penalising
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CIL Regional Forum on Legal Considerations for ASEAN Power Grid & Subsea Interconnectors On 3 March 2026, the Centre for International Law (CIL) Energy Law & Policy and Ocean Law & Policy teams co-organised the CIL Regional Forum on Legal Considerations for ASEAN Power Grid & Subsea Interconnectors. This event brought together a diverse range of stakeholders from
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The Centre for International Law of the National University of Singapore (CIL) and the Indonesian Ocean Justice Initiative have successfully co-organised a one day, in person Conference on “Ocean and Peace” at the Shangri La Hotel, in Jakarta Indonesia on 9th December 2025. This Conference brought together senior diplomats, leading academics, legal practitioners, and researchers
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On 12 December 2025 in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, CIL Senior Research Fellow Dr Trung Nguyen spoke at the Conference on the Development of International Law, organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Viet Nam in collaboration with the Viet Nam Society of International Law (VSIL). The Conference brought together government officials, legal experts,
On 3 – 4 December 2025, the Ocean Law and Policy team organized an in-person event “Regional Roundtable on the Law Of The Sea” at the Orchard Hotel, Singapore. The CIL Regional Roundtable on the Law Of The Sea brought together leading experts and academics from 12 institutions across Southeast Asia with an aim to
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On 4 December 2025, Prof Robert Beckman participated in a panel discussion on the shadow fleet at the Financial Times Commodities Asia Summit which was held at the ParkRoyal Collection, Marina Bay, Singapore on 3-4 December. The title of the panel discussion was “How are Sanctions and Dark Fleets Reshaping Shipping?” The panel was moderated
