On 12 June 2015, the Symposium for the Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Rhodes Academy on Oceans Law and Policy was held at the United Nations in New York. Hosted by the Permanent Mission of Iceland to the UN, the Symposium featured Judge Tomas Heidar and several other Rhodes Alumni, who presented on […]
CIL Director Professor Robert Beckman, CIL Non-Resident Fellow Captain Ashley Roach, and Research Fellows Leo Bernard and Dr Zhen Sun participated in the 2015 International Symposium on Global Commons and the Law of the Sea in Hangzhou, China on 22-23 June 2015. The Symposium was co-organised by the Centre for Ocean Law and Governance, Guanghua
CIL was a sponsoring organisation at the 39th Annual Conference of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy (COLP) of the University of Virginia, which was held in Shanghai, China from 24-26 June 2015. The title of the Conference was ‘International Marine Economy: Law and Policy’. CIL Director Robert Beckman chaired a panel on grey
CIL Senior Research Fellow Dr Hao Duy Phan and CIL Research Fellow Dr Sun Zhen were invited to speak at the China-ASEAN Forum on Law, Policy and Management of the Sea on 4 August 2015 in Guiyang, Guizhou, China. Hao Duy Phan delivered a presentation on ‘ASEAN Cooperation on Maritime Security’ (download in PDF). Sun
CIL Senior Research Fellow Youna Lyons was invited to present the lessons learned and recommendations that arose from the NUS Workshop on the Prospects for Large-Scale Artificial Reefs in Southeast Asia, at the Indonesia Decommissioning Conference on 13-14 August 2015 in Bandung, Indonesia. To download her presentation, click here.
Senior Research Fellow Youna Lyons and Research Fellow Denise Cheong participated in the 2015 Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law held at the Atma Jaya Catholic University in Jakarta, Indonesia, from 7-11 September 2015. Youna made a presentation titled: “Towards a comprehensive framework for the designation of sensitive marine environments”. To download her
CIL Director Robert Beckman participated in a conference on the South China Sea in Jakarta, Indonesia from 14-16 September 2015. The Conference was co-organised by the Centre of Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Indonesia and the National Institute for South China Sea Studies (NISCSS) in Hainan, China. This was the First Conference in a project
CIL Research Fellow Denise Cheong was invited to speak at the Workshop on “National Ocean Environmental Contingency Plan in Asian Pacific States” on 27 April 2015 in Busan, Korea where she delivered a presentation on “National Ocean Environmental Contingency Plan in Asian Pacific States: The Singapore Perspective”. The Workshop was organised by Development of International
CIL Director Robert Beckman presented lectures on 8 and 11 May 2015 on the law of the sea to the participants in the RSIS Command Staff College Course in Maritime Security Studies at S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
CIL Director Robert Beckman and CIL Visiting Research Fellow Captain J Ashley Roach attended the annual Plenary Meeting of the International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC) in Hong Kong from 28-30 April 2015. Professor Beckman made an invited presentation on ‘Sovereignty and Maritime Disputes in Southeast Asia: Implications for the Cable Industry’. To view his presentation
