Researchers' Activities
27 January 2012
CIL Research Associate Ranyta Yusran participated in the 2nd Meeting on Violence, Exploitation, and Migration Affecting Women and Children in ASEAN held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Meeting was held by the Human Rights Resource Centre. Ms Yusran is appointed to be the Country Rapporteur to conduct a baseline survey on issues of violence, exploitation, and migration affecting women and children in Indonesia. The baseline survey initiative receives positive support from members of the ASEAN Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC) and is intended to be used to assist the work of ACWC. The baseline surveys of all 10 ASEAN Member Countries are expected to be completed in April 2012 and launched in May 2012.
26 May 2011
A/P Michael Ewing-Chow, Head of CIL’s Trade and Investment Law & Policy Programme, and five CIL Research Associates, Mr. Leonardo Bernard, Ms. Tara Maria Davenport, Ms. Liu Gehuan, Ms. Mayla Fermina Alonzo Ibanez, and Ms. Ranyta Yusran presented their papers on various fields of law at the 8th Asian Law Institute’s (ASLI) Conference held in Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. For more information and to download their papers, click here.
5 May 2011
CIL Research Associate, Ms Ranyta YUSRAN presented a paper entitled ‘Post-Conflict Justice in Southeast Asia: The Limited Impact of the Rome Statute on Indonesia and in the Region’ at the ‘Launch Conference: Assessing the Impact of the International Criminal Court’ held by Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden University in The Hague, The Netherlands. The paper was authored together with CIL Research Fellow, Dr TAN Hsien Li. The conference was attended by various legal practitioners, academics, researchers, and NGOs from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and America specializing in international criminal law and transitional justice. Below is the link to the paper, please note that the paper is still a working draft and please do not cite without the permission from the authors. To download Post-Conflict Justice in Southeast Asia: The Limited Impact of the Rome Statute on Indonesia and in the Region by TAN Hsien Li and Ranyta YUSRAN, click here.
5 May 2011
CIL Senior Research Fellow Dr Tan Hsien-Li’s paper, co-written with CIL Research Associate Ranyta Yusran, on “Post-Conflict Justice in Southeast Asia: the Limited Impact of the Rome Statute on Indonesia and in the Region” was presented by Ms Yusran at the Conference on “Post Conflict Justice: Assessing the Impact of the Rome Statute” held at Leiden University in The Hague.
18 February 2011
CIL Director Robert Beckman participated at a conference organized by the ASEAN Studies Centre (ASC) of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) on “Entering Uncharted Waters?: ASEAN and the South China Sea Dispute”. The main objective of the one-day conference was to discuss on how ASEAN, as an organization, should be handling the South China Sea dispute and through what channels and mechanisms. Prof Beckman presented his paper “The South China Sea Dispute: An International Lawyer’s View” (download in PDF format) which was prepared for the Conference. For PDF version of his presentation, click here.
21 November 2011
CIL Research Associate Leonardo Bernard participated in the 2nd Indonesian Centre for International Law Studies (CILS) Conference 2011 on ‘The ASEAN’s Role in Sustainable Development’ in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The Conference was jointly organized by the Law Faculties of University of Indonesia and University of Gajah Mada. Mr Bernard was one of the Speakers in a Panel that focus on delimitation in the North Malacca Strait, where he talked about the legal history of the continental shelf and EEZ, as well as possible legal solution for delimitation between Indonesia and Malaysia in the North Malacca Strait. For PDF version of his presentation, click here. For a PDF version of the draft paper written by Mr Bernard titled ‘Whose Side Is It On? The Boundary Dispute in the North Malacca Strait’, click here.
20 September 2011
A/P Michael Ewing-Chow, Head of CIL’s Trade and Investment Law & Policy Programme was invited by the ASEAN Studies Centre to participate in the 3rd Train-the-Trainers Course on the ASEAN Charter as the legal expert. Prof Ewing-Chow delivered a full day lecture about the legal implementation of the ASEAN Charter and the various issues that need to be addressed. For more information, click here.
27 August 2011
CIL Senior Research Fellow Dr Tan Hsien-Li presented her paper on “The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights and Soft Law: Broadening the Reach of Regional Human Rights Protections” at the Third Biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law held in Beijing, China.
20 December 2010
Prof Joseph Weiler, A/P Michael Ewing-Chow and Research Fellow Tan Hsien-Li chaired and hosted the ASEAN Implementation Workshop with invited scholars from ASEAN. For more information, click here.
21 June 2010
CIL Chairman Prof Tommy Koh delivered the Opening Remarks at the ISEAS-CHD-SIIA seminar on “The ASEAN Way of Resolving Conflict: Lessons Learnt and Preparing for the Future” (download PDF version).
23 April 2010
A/P Michael Ewing-Chow, Head of CIL’s Trade and Investment Law & Policy Programme, participated in the ASEAN Roundtable organized by ISEAS.
11 January 2010
CIL Director Robert Beckman and a team of CIL staff visit ASEAN Secretariat at the ASEAN Headquarters, Jakarta, Indonesia. For more information about the visit and meeting with Deputy Secretary-General Bagas Hapsoro, please click here.
2 July 2009
CIL Director Robert Beckman gave two presentations at the ASEAN Workshop on UNCLOS and Marine Biodiversity Conservation at Fort Canning Park, Singapore. The conference was organized by the National Parks Board of Singapore. Prof Beckman’s presentations were on “International Legal Frameworks on Marine Biodiversity” and “Marine Protected Areas and the Protection of Marine Biodiversity”.
6 November 2009
A/P Michael Ewing-Chow, Head of CIL’s Trade and Investment Law & Policy Programme, gave a Max Planck Lecture on ASEAN and Legalization at the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg.
1 August 2009
A/P Michael Ewing-Chow, Head of CIL’s Trade and Investment Law & Policy Programme, delivered a paper “Culture Club or Chameleon: Should ASEAN adopt a policy of Legalisation for Economic Integration?” at the Asian Society of International Law, Tokyo, Japan.
27 July 2009
A/P Michael Ewing-Chow, Head of CIL’s Trade and Investment Law & Policy Programme, delivered a paper “Translating the Design into a Bloc: the domestic implementation of the ASEAN Charter” at the Workshop on Life after the Charter, ISEAS, Singapore.
June 2020 News Updates on ASEAN and the South China Sea
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February 2021 ASEAN news update
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June 2021 ASEAN and South China Sea News Updates
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