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The Fall and Rise of Legal Education in Singapore (SJLS)

Prior to independence, legal education was all but non-existent in Singapore and many other colonies. This essay briefly discusses that colonial context before going on to describe how the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law came to play an important part in Singapore’s rule of law story as Singapore’s national law school, a global […]

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The Fall and Rise of Legal Education in Singapore

Prior to independence, legal education was all but non-existent in Singapore and many other colonies. This essay briefly discusses that colonial context before going on to describe how the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law came to play an important part in Singapore’s rule of law story as Singapore’s national law school, a global […]

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What’s in a Name?

Last Monday, the National University of Singapore named its Centre for Law & Business after EW Barker, Singapore’s longest-serving Minister for Law. The Prime Minister and members of the Barker family attended the launch. A day earlier, on the other side of the world, the United Nations withdrew its support of a West Bank Palestinian women’s […]

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 Climate Change: What Do We Owe the Future?  A Chat Room of One’s Own  Musing on Vampires and Writing a Teen Novel  Asia’s Ambivalence About International Law & Institutions: Past, Present, and Futures  Taking ASEAN SeriouslyCopyright © Simon Chesterman [], All Right Reserved. 2017.

Don’t Study Law

Students across Singapore are currently considering university programmes in which they have been offered a place. They routinely seek advice from family and friends, as well as attending open houses and reading materials on official Web sites and social media. But what if they could give themselves advice? Letters of the Law is a student-led […]

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 The Secretary-General We Deserve?  Studying Law at University  Raising Arcadia  Digital Security: You Are the Weakest Link  Are Sanctions Meant to Work?Copyright © Simon Chesterman [Don’t Study Law], All Right Reserved. 2017.

Trump and the Triumph of Kakistocracy

And to think it was in the dictionary all along: “Trumpery. Noun. Worthless nonsense; tawdry finery. From the French tromper, to deceive.” We are now into the second month of the three-ring circus that is the Trump presidency, as what seemed inconceivable became unbelievable but is now undeniable. In an electoral upset that made the […]

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 Lawyers, Guns, and Money: The Governance of Business Activities in Conflict Zones  After Mass Crime  A Chat Room of One’s Own  Secretary or General?Copyright © Simon Chesterman [Trump and the Triumph of Kakistocracy], All Right Reserved. 2017.

International Law in the Asian Century

An academic learns most through errors and omissions. Far better to be criticized in text than footnoted in passing — both, of course, are preferable to being ignored. I am therefore enormously grateful that such esteemed scholars and practitioners were willing to take part in this joint Opinio Juris and EJIL:Talk! symposium and offer their responses […]

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 The UN Secretary-General in His or Her Labyrinth  The International Court of Justice in Asia: Interpreting the Temple of Preah Vihear Case  International Law and the Rise of Asia  The Fall and Rise of Legal Education in Asia: Inhibition, Imitation, Innovation  In Praise of FailureCopyright © Simon Chesterman [International Law in the Asian Century], All Right Reserved. 2017.

Asia’s Ambivalence About International Law & Institutions: Past, Present, and Futures

A decade after moving from New York to Singapore, I began work on this article in the hope of understanding what seemed to me a paradox. Well into the much-vaunted “Asian century”, the states of this region arguably benefit most from the security and economic dividends of a world ordered by international law and institutions […]

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Finding Arcadia

The second book of my Raising Arcadia trilogy has just been published! To understand the present, Arcadia Greentree must dig deep into her past. Her family torn apart by tragedy, Arcadia tries to locate the “professor” whom she believes to be ultimately responsible. A series of clues lead her to Oxford University and a confrontation with […]

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Do Driverless Cars Dream of Electric Sheep?

Autonomous vehicles offer the prospect of safer and cheaper transportation of people and goods. But as Singapore sees the first driverless taxis take to the roads, technology has raced ahead of our laws — and our morals.   Last week, the world’s first driverless taxi service began picking up passengers on Singapore’s roads. It is a […]

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Dogs of War or Jackals of Terror? Foreign Fighters and Mercenaries in International Law

The threat of “blowback” from foreign fighters, unaffiliated volunteers who join an insurgency in a distant land, has led states to explore a variety of normative mechanisms. Among these is the international legal regime applicable to mercenaries. This short article considers the evolution of mercenarism and the efforts to regulate it. Attempts to fit foreign […]

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