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Kofi Annan: Great Expectations

It says much about the UN Secretary-General that the two men widely regarded as the greatest to hold the office went in with the lowest expectations. Dag Hammarskjöld was an unknown Swedish civil servant who found out he was a candidate for the position when he received the telegram offering it to him. He went […]

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 From Community to Compliance?  Snowplough Parenting  Law 2.0  Too Many Lawyers?  Musing on Vampires and Writing a Teen NovelCopyright © Simon Chesterman [Kofi Annan: Great Expectations], All Right Reserved. 2018.

Singapore’s Biggest Ever Data Breach May Give Privacy New Life

Reports of the death of privacy are greatly exaggerated. This might seem an odd opening line, with Singapore still reeling from its worst ever data breach, in which the personal details of 1.5 million people were stolen from SingHealth. But as the country realigns its economy and its public institutions to take advantage of the […]

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 Who Wants to Rule the World?  Snowplough Parenting    From Mercenaries to Market  Civilians in WarCopyright © Simon Chesterman [Singapore’s Biggest Ever Data Breach May Give Privacy New Life], All Right Reserved. 2018.

R2P and Humanitarian Intervention: From Apology to Utopia and Back Again

Next year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Kosovo conflict that was the genesis of the responsibility to protect (‘R2P’). This doctrine was developed precisely as an alternative to humanitarian intervention — the notion that unilateral force can be used to protect human rights in another state. The term was coined by a commission established […]

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 Books, articles, career advice and more  Civilians in War  Does ASEAN Exist? The Association of Southeast Asian Nations as an International Legal Person  Responsibility to Protect, Responsibility to Whom?  After Mass CrimeCopyright © Simon Chesterman [R2P and Humanitarian Intervention: From Apology to Utopia and Back Again], All Right Reserved. 2018.

Data Protection Law in Singapore (2nd edition)

The adoption of the Personal Data Protection Act transformed the legal regime for data protection in Singapore. This book explains the history and evolution of data protection in Singapore, highlights issues that are being worked out in practice, and derives lessons that Singapore can learn from other jurisdictions – and that other jurisdictions can learn […]

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 International Criminal Law with Asian Characteristics?  Lee Kuan Yew the Lawyer  Law and Practice of the United Nations  Monitoring the Surveillance State  In Praise of FailureCopyright © Simon Chesterman [Data Protection Law in Singapore (2nd edition)], All Right Reserved. 2018.

That’s Academic

Earlier this month the National University of Singapore announced that in place of a three- or four-year programme leading to a degree, the University would commit itself to a two-decade relationship with students. Is it time to rethink the role of higher education?   For centuries, universities have operated on the assumption that three or […]

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 The International Court of Justice in Asia: Interpreting the Temple of Preah Vihear Case  Books, articles, career advice and more  Private Security, Public Order: The Outsourcing of Public Services and Its Limits  Musing on Vampires and Writing a Teen Novel  Secretary or General?Copyright © Simon Chesterman [That's Academic], All Right Reserved. 2018.

International Law and Its Others

If the rule of law means anything, it is that the law is meant to apply equally to all regardless of the vacillations of power. This is the founding myth of law at the national level — famously forbidding the rich as well as the poor from sleeping under the bridges of Paris at night. […]

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 Why Not Torture?  Crimean War 2.0: Ukraine and International Law  The UN Secretary-General in His or Her Labyrinth  Academic Freedom in New Haven and Singapore  Law and Practice of the United NationsCopyright © Simon Chesterman [International Law and Its Others], All Right Reserved. 2018.

The Fall and Rise of Legal Education in Singapore

The sixtieth anniversary of legal education in Singapore offers a chance to look back on the history of the rule of law in Singapore — and forward to how the practice of law is changing. Six decades ago, the first law students enrolled as colonial subjects in the new Department of Law of the University […]

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 Asia’s Ambivalence About International Law & Institutions: Past, Present, and Futures  The Fall and Rise of Legal Education in Asia: Inhibition, Imitation, Innovation  Why Study?  Who Killed Privacy?  Singapore and the Rule of LawCopyright © Simon Chesterman [The Fall and Rise of Legal Education in Singapore], All Right Reserved. 2017.

How “Public” Is Public International Law? Towards a Typology of NGOs and Civil Society Actors

How “public” is public international law? Despite its natural law origins, international law has long privileged the role of the state. Today, NGOs and civil society actors play an increasingly important role — offering a voice for the disenfranchised through their advocacy, and a helping hand for the disadvantaged through their operations. Calls for accountability […]

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 Making States Work  Data Protection Law in Singapore: Privacy and Sovereignty in an Interconnected World  Getting Used to a Surveillance Society  Lawyers, Guns, and Money: The Governance of Business Activities in Conflict Zones  Law and Practice of the United NationsCopyright © Simon Chesterman [How “Public” Is Public International Law? Towards a Typology of NGOs and Civil Society Actors], All Right Reserved. 2017.

Being Arcadia

The trilogy is complete! Arcadia Greentree confronts her past — and her future. The pieces of Arcadia’s life are slowly falling into place when Moira returns to scatter them once more. Arcadia must now choose whether to trust her nemesis as they uncover the dark secret of their birth. Book Launch If you are in […]

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 Lies, Damned Lies, and the International Rule of Law  Don’t Study Law  Protecting and Sharing Personal Data  You, The People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building  Data Protection Law in Singapore: Privacy and Sovereignty in an Interconnected WorldCopyright © Simon Chesterman [Being Arcadia], All Right Reserved. 2017.

Privacy and Our Digital Selves

By October, the lamp posts on Singapore’s Orchard Road and in selected housing estates will be doing more than just illuminating the street. With cameras and other sensors they will capture real-time information on traffic flow, the environment, pedestrian movement — and, potentially, security threats. In his National Day Rally last month, Prime Minister Lee […]

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 Law and Practice of the United Nations  Tinkering with the Machinery of Death  International Law in the Asian Century  Academic Freedom in New Haven and Singapore  A Chat Room of One’s OwnCopyright © Simon Chesterman [Privacy and Our Digital Selves], All Right Reserved. 2017.