Design Norms in Law: Just a Passing Fad?
Design-focused rules are increasingly salient in law and public policy discourse. We see this well-illustrated in recent European legislation, which employs various 'by design' mantras, such as ‘data protection by design’ ‘compliance by design’ ‘open by design’ and ‘security by design’. Worryingly, legislators seem often to take the meaning of these norms for granted, but, for many stakeholders, such meaning is far from self-evident. What lies behind this turn to design-based regulation? And what is its long-term significance? Is it a development with only positive effects or does it also harbour possible problems?
Contact: cdl@smu.edu.sg. Speaker Details: Professor Lee A. Bygrave is a full professor at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (NRCCL), attached to the Department of Private Law, University of Oslo.
He currently heads two major research projects at the NRCCL: VIROS (‘Vulnerability in the Robot Society’), which canvasses legal and ethical implications of AI-empowered robotics; and SIGNAL (‘Security in Internet Governance and Networks: Analysing the Law’), which studies transnational changes in the legal frameworks for security of c… RSVP:
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
SMU Yong Pung How School of Law.
Yong Pung How Visiting Professorship Lecture 2025
AI is reshaping the processes of public administration and decision-making. This talk examines the potential benefits and challenges and how and to what extent the judiciary’s supervisory role can protect and promote the principles of good decision-making which the law demands of executive officials.
Contact: cdl@smu.edu.sg. Speaker Details: Lord Philip Sales became a Justice of the Supreme Court in January 2019. Lord Sales was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Guildford, before reading law at both Churchill College, Cambridge, and Worcester College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales at Lincoln's Inn in 1985 and was appointed First Treasury Junior Counsel in 1997. He was an Assistant Recorder from 1999 to 2001, Recorder from 2001 and 2008, and Deputy High Court Judge from 2004 and 2008.
Lord Sales became a Queen's C… RSVP: . Type: Conferences & Symposiums. Subject: Law. Audience: Public. Current Student. Alumni. Academic Community. Professionals. Incoming PG Students. SMU Faculty & Staff.
Thursday, August 7, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM.
SMU Admin Building, Mochtar Riady Auditorium, 81 Victoria Street, Singapore 188065.
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Thursday, August 28, 2025, 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM.
SMU Connexion.
Digital Dispute Resolution Platforms: The Impact of New Technologies on the Future of International Commercial Arbitration
Digital platforms have been offering dispute resolution services in the e-commerce domain for sometime. New technologies such as blockchain and AI have not only changed the digital landscape but have also given rise to new dispute resolution models for the digital economy. The legitimacy of these platforms has been advocated on both theoretical and functional grounds. However, their legality had been called into question by practitioners and policy makers. This seminar will discuss new digital dispute resolution platforms, their legitimacy and legality, and the potential implications for international commercial arbitration.
Contact: cdl@smu.edu.sg. Speaker Details: Dr Joseph Lee Nazzini is a Reader in Corporate and Financial law at the University of Manchester School of Law. He is the founding programme director of the Manchester Online LLM in International Commercial and Technology Law. He is the author of Crypto-Finance, Law and Regulation: Governing an Emerging Ecosystem (2021) and the editor of several influential books including Web3 Governance: Law and Policy (2025); A Research Agenda for Financial Law and Regulation (2025); and Data Governance in AI, FinTech an… RSVP:
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Friday, August 29, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
SMU Yong Pung How School of Law.