As “routine” judicial proceedings at the International Criminal Court (ICC) begin to take place, questions that have been lingering since the end of the Rome Conference require re-examination. One such issue is the failure to secure the participation of certain states in the Rome Statute. This b...   MORE>>

There is no doubt to this reviewer that this book is an important contribution to scholarship on state succession as well as international commercial law. In his book, Dr. Cheng provides us with a thorough examination of state practice as well as treaty practice to support his thesis that internatio...   MORE>>

In his Foreword to the book, Mr Ong Keng Yong, who was at the time of publication the Secretary-General of ASEAN wrote:

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has come a long way since its formation in August 1967. In particular the launch of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) in 1992 h...   MORE>>

In 1996, Managing Global Chaos: Sources of and Responses to International Conflict presented us with an exposition on the post-Cold War sources of international and intra-national conflicts. Analyzing issues of global security in a world which was just getting to grips with an invigorated era of glo...   MORE>>

In his book A Foucauldian Approach to International Law, Leonard M. Hammer eschews the “outmoded statist approach” and joins in the struggle to find a viable framework of international law.

The author nominates the ideas of Michel Foucault as the way forward in this endeavor, arguing first th...   MORE>>

Through International Human Rights & Humanitarian Law: Treaties, Cases & Analysis, its editors sought to provide students with an introductory casebook on international human rights law and international humanitarian law. They have achieved that. However, if the editors sought to produce an authorit...   MORE>>

This report is the third installment in a series of yearly updates that began in 2005 to track and follow the developments in arbitration law in Singapore. Several prominent cases that dealt with important issues in arbitration law arose for consideration in the High Court and Court of Appeal in 200...   MORE>>

There was only one reported Malaysian private international law case heard in 2006 and that was Sri Lanka Cricket (formerly known as Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka) v World Sport Nimbus Pte Ltd (formerly known as WSG Nimbus Pte Ltd). The other case examined here, Prime Credit Leasing Sdn ...   MORE>>

In this fourth annual survey of conflict of laws cases in the Singapore Year Book of International Law, seven cases will be considered. Before looking at these cases, it is useful to make two preliminary comments. First, generally, only cases from the High Court and Court of Appeal will be considere...   MORE>>

I. INTRODUCTION

The following issues have been selected for this review:

1. relations with the Federation of Malaysia (“Malaysia”) concerning on-going negotiations over the Causeway Bridge, Singapore’s land reclamation works and the establishment of the Iskandar Development Region (“ID...   MORE>>