Centre for Legal Theory

About CLT

The Centre for Legal Theory (CLT) at NUS Law brings together colleagues in the Faculty of Law interested in a variety of theoretical approaches to law, including those informed by related disciplines. CLT exists to promote formal and informal exchanges on theoretical work by members of the Centre and other colleagues. Read More…

Upcoming Events
CLT Seminar (Webinar)
Remedies without Remainders
By Assistant Professor Tan Zhong Xing, National University of Singapore
14 July 2020, Tuesday
4.00pm to 6.00pm
(Participation is by invitation only)


News & Announcements
Damian Chalmers has published a book on “European Union Law: Text and Materials”
Simon Chesterman has published a book on “The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Asia and the Pacific”
Congratulations to Alec Stone Sweet on the award for his book
Rachel Leow to present her paper at the United Kingdom in October 2019
Rachel Leow to publish an article “Two Kinds of Agency"
Rachel Leow to publish a case note “The Death of Stack in Singapore"
Timothy Liau to present a paper at SLS Restitution Subject Section in September 2019
Rachel Leow to present her paper at the University of Central Lancashire in September 2019
Arif Jamal has published an article in the South China Morning Post
Rachel Leow presented her paper at the Modern Studies in the Law of Trusts and Wealth Management 2019 in August 2019
Arif Jamal presented a paper on Islamic Wealth Management in Singapore in August 2019
Andrew Halpin posted a paper on Axioms of Correlativity
James Penner presented his paper at the University of New South Wales, Sydney in July 2019
James Penner presented his paper at the University of Toronto, Canada in June 2019
Andrew Halpin presented a paper on Legal Competence at IVR World Congress in July 2019
William Bain gave a talk at the Aberystwyth University, Wales
Rachel Leow presented her paper at the University of Leeds, England in June 2019
Diego Mejía-Lemos presented his paper at the University of Groningen, Netherlands in May 2019
Ho Hock Lai recently accepted new appointment with Editorial Committee of the Journal
Ivan Lee has published an article “British extradition practice in early colonial Hong Kong”
Rachel Leow has published an article “Recovering Mistaken Payments before the Financial Ombudsman"
Terry Nardin has published an article “The International Legal Order 1919–2019"
Congratulations to Timothy Liau on being awarded a Merton Graduate Prize Scholarship
William Bain has published an article “Continuity and Change in International Relations 1919-2019"
William Bain has published an article “International Anarchy and Political Theology: Rethinking the Legacy of Thomas Hobbes"
William Bain was awarded the Best Paper Prize (Senior Scholar) for the English School Section of the International Studies Association
William Bain presented his paper at the Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, Toronto
Andrew Simester has published a book “Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law”
Simon Chesterman has published a book “The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Treaties”
Alec Stone Sweet has publishes a book on “Proportionality Balancing and Constitutional Governance :A Comparative and Global Approach”
Rachel Leow publishes an article “Understanding Agency: A Proxy Power Definition”
Andrew Halpin publishes an article “Correlativity and its Logic: Asymmetry not Equality in the Law”
Arif A. Jamal & Jaclyn Neo publishes an article “Religious Pluralism and the Challenge for Secularism”
Tan Zhong Xing publishes an article “Disrupting doctrine? Revisiting the doctrinal impact of relational contract theory”
Swati Jhaveri has published a book chapter “Reclaiming Indian Administrative Law"
Swati Jhaveri has published a book chapter “Sunsetting suspension orders in Hong Kong"
Arif A. Jamal has published a book chapter “Regulatory Markers"
Jaclyn Neo has published a book chapter “Conceptualizing the Regulation of Religion: A Preliminary Framework for Inquiry"
A.P Simester has published a book on “Principles of Criminal Law”
Jaclyn Neo, Daniel Goh & Arif A. Jamal publishes a book “Regulating Religion in Asia: Norms, Modes and Challenges”
Jaclyn Neo has published a book “Pluralist Constitutions in Southeast Asia”
Tan Hsien-Li has published a book “Can ASEAN Take Human Rights Seriously?”
Arif A. Jamal and Jaclyn L.C. Neo have published a special issue on “Religious Pluralism and the Challenge for Secularism”
J.R. Edwards and A.P. Simester has published an article “Crime, Blameworthiness, and Outcomes"
A.P. Simester and G.R. Sullivan has published a case note “Causing Euthanasia"
A.P. Simester gave a lecture at the Uppsala University, Sweden in January 2019
James Penner presented a paper at the Melbourne Law School in December 2018
William Bain presented a paper at the Institute for Conflict, Cooperation, and Security, University of Birmingham in December 2018
William Bain presented a paper at the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews in December 2018
Arif A. Jamal has published a book chapter “ADR and Islamic law: the cases of the UK and Singapore"
Arif A. Jamal presented in a seminar entitled Islam, Law, and the State in the Making of the Modern World in November 2018
Andrew Halpin publishes an article “The Tigerish Nature of Legal Normativity”
Dr John Stanton-Ife and Andrew Simester presented a paper at the King’s College London in October 2018
James Penner presented a paper at the Rutgers Law School in October 2018
William Bain presented a paper at the Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame in September 2018
James Penner's new edited volume on “Property Theory: Legal and Political Perspectives” has been published by Cambridge University Press
 
Tan Zhong Xing won the Hart Publishing Prize for the best paper by an early career scholar at the Ninth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations at Melbourne Law School
 
Mike Dowdle has published a new book on “Questioning the Foundations of Public Law”
 
Arif A Jamal publishes a book “Islam, Law and the Modern State: (Re)imagining Liberal Theory in Muslim Contexts”
 
Nicole Roughan and Andrew Halpin publish "A response" to commentators on In Pursuit of Pluralist Jurisprudence in March 2018
 
Andrew Halpin posts "A Story of Jurisprudence and True Philosophy" in March 2018
 
Nicole Roughan presented a paper at the Julius Stone Institute, University of Sydney in March 2018
 
James Penner has published an article "'We All Make Mistakes: A ‘Duty of Virtue’ Theory of Restitutionary Liability for Mistaken Payments"
 
Benjamin Schupmann publishes an article “Responding to the rise of extremist populism”
 
Sinja Graf has published an article online "A Trespass against the Whole Species”: Universal Crime and Sovereign Founding in John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government"
 
Benjamin Schupmann publishes a book “Carl Schmitt’s State and Constitutional Theory: A Critical Analysis”
 
CLT warmly congratulates CLT members, Tan Zhong Xing & Rachel Leow, on their appointments as Assistant Professors in NUS Law!
 
 
 
Quick Links
Brochure
Projects
SSLT 2019
Coming to NUS
Contact Us
Join our Mailing List