International Law, the Rise of China, and the Return of Russia

Chair: Dr Maria Varaki, Lecturer in International Law at the War Studies Department

Speaker:

• Professor Simon Chesterman, Dean and Provost’s Chair Professor of the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law
• Professor Lauri Mälksoo, Professor of International Law at the University of Tartu

 

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Simon Chesterman is Dean and Provost’s Chair Professor of the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law and Senior Director of AI Governance at AI Singapore. He is also Editor of the Asian Journal of International Law and Co-President of the Law Schools Global League.

Professor Chesterman is the author or editor of twenty-one books, including We, the Robots? Regulating Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of the Law (CUP, 2021); Law and Practice of the United Nations (with Ian Johnstone and David M. Malone, OUP, 2016); One Nation Under Surveillance (OUP, 2011); You, the People (OUP, 2004); and Just War or Just Peace? (OUP, 2001).

 

Prof. Lauri Mälksoo, University of Tartu is Professor of International Law at the University of Tartu in Estonia. He is member of the Institut de Droit International and the Estonian Academy of Sciences. He has authored a monograph "Russian Approaches to International Law" (OUP, 2015) and co-authored "Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: The Strasbourg Effect" (CUP, 2017) as well as published numerous articles on the history and theory of international law in Russia and the Soviet Union.

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