28 February 2012
CIL Chairman Prof Tommy Koh outlines Asia’s challenges in the 21st century at the ADB Eminent Person’s Lecture. To download his speech in PDF, click here.
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21 July 2012
Dr Navin Rajagobal, CIL Deputy Director, together with Prof M. Sornarajah, NUS Law School, and Mr Ken Aboud, Allen & Overy, judged the finals of the Singapore International Affairs Debate 2012 on 21 July 2011 between ACJC and HCJC at the NUS Bukit Timah Campus. The motion was “This House believes that Singapore’s foreign policy …
1 June 2012
CIL Chairman Prof Tommy Koh delivered a lecture on “Law and Justice: An Asian Perspective” (view in PDF) at the 9th Asian Law Institute Conference at the NUS Law School, Singapore.
Workshop on Academic Scholarship
17 August 2016 | Workshop Workshop on Academic Scholarship Introduction This practical workshop, intended for scholars in the early stages of their career, had two principal purposes: First, to offer guidance on research agenda setting and various research approaches and methodologies. It was designed to explore different potentialities for research and writing projects, and was …
Practical and Innovative Approaches to Regulating Space Activities
23 June 2016 | CIL Seminar Series Practical and Innovative Approaches to Regulating Space Activities Introduction When the international legal principles concerning responsibility and liability flowing from space activities (including the launch and operation of satellites in orbit) were negotiated, there were a number of concepts that were somewhat beyond the contemplation of the diplomats …
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Global Policing and Transnational Law Enforcement
30 March 2016 | Joint Seminar This seminar was jointly organised by CIL and NUS Faculty of Law. Global Policing and Transnational Law Enforcement Introduction Policing is globalising. The tasks of enforcing the law, maintaining order, investigating crime and myriad other aspects of social control – which have historically been based almost exclusively within local …
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International Trade and Food Security: Exploring Collective Food Security in Asia
14 March 2016 | Book Launch International Trade and Food Security: Exploring Collective Food Security in Asia Introduction ‘Food security is one of the key challenges the world faces. The demand for food will increase as our population goes up from 7 billion to 9 billion. Global warming and an increasingly erratic weather pattern will …
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Conversation with Judge James Crawford
18 February 2016 | Conversation Conversation with Judge James Crawford Interviewee’s Profile Judge James Richard Crawford is a Judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). He has been a member of the Court since 6 February 2015. Before being appointed to the Court, Judge Crawford was a Professor of Law at Cambridge University. He …
The Making of International Law: The Non-governmental Contribution
11 February 2016 | CIL Distinguished Speaker Series The Making of International Law: The Non-governmental Contribution Introduction According to Article 38 of the ICJ Statute, the cardinal role in international law-making belongs to governments, which have a virtual monopoly of treaty-making and which are central players in the development of custom. But non-governmental actors – …
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Comparative Law Issues in International Criminal Law
Comparative Law Issues in International Criminal Law Introduction International criminal tribunals are not just another enforcement regime to promote human dignity. They change the ball game rather fundamentally, and entail a shift from state responsibility to individual criminal responsibility. They try people, not states. Yet the whole time while we were globalising the rules governing …
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