STARI Launch Conference
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Fee(s): TBA. Contact: ccla@smu.edu.sg. Speaker Details: TBA. RSVP: . Type: Conferences & Symposiums. Subject: Law. Finance & Financial Markets. Audience: SMU Faculty & Staff. Professionals. Academic Community. Public.
Monday, August 11, 2025, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
Function Lounge 4.02, Level 4,
Singapore Management University
Yong Pung How School of Law
55 Armenian Street
Singapore 179943.
CCLA Lunchtime Seminar - Trust Law in Civil Law Asia: Taking Stock
Trust law in Civil Law East Asia has developed along a distinctive path, shaped by historical diffusion and local adaptation. Doctrinally contractarian and obligational in structure, and long used almost exclusively for commercial purposes, civilian trust regimes diverge from the traditional common law model. These features reflect the trust’s transnational journey—eastward through British colonies and westward across North America and the Pacific—routes that converged in early twentieth-century Japan and continue to shape regional developments.
What might appear anomalous instead reflects a complex interplay of doctrinal learning, legislative borrowing, colonial legacies, the international flow of capital, demographic transformation, and persistent legal-cultural norms. In recent years, trusts have been increasingly used for intergenerational asset management, raising tensions with mandatory succession rules such as forced heirship—especially given that foundational trust legislation was originally tailored…
Fee(s): Complimentary Admission. Successful registrant will receive a confirmation email by 4 August 2025 from ccla@smu.edu.sg to confirm your registration. Contact: ccla@smu.edu.sg. Speaker Details: Professor Masayuki Tamaruya is Professor of Law at the University of Tokyo, where he teaches comparative law and trust law. His main research areas include trusts and estates, nonprofit organizations, and legal history. His publications include: 'Japanese, East Asian, and Transnational Fiduciary Orders' in Transnational Fiduciary Orders (Seth Davis, et al, eds, CUP 2024) pp. 188–215; 'Japanese Law and the Global Diffusion of Trust and Fiduciary Law,’ Iowa Law Review, vol. 103, pp. 2229–2261 (2018); and 'Fid… RSVP: . Type: Seminars & Workshops. Subject: Law. Audience: SMU Faculty & Staff. Current Student. Public. Academic Community.
Thursday, August 14, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Meeting Room 5-04, Level 5,
Singapore Management University
Yong Pung How School of Law
55 Armenian Street
Singapore 179943.
For more info visit law.smu.edu.sg. CCLA Lunchtime Seminar - Regulating Global Value Chains: The Promises and Perils of Due Diligence (DD) Laws
This talk mainly focuses on the theoretical and structural analysis of HR DD laws (Human Rights Due Diligence laws), which is becoming and being more broadly recognized by not only scholars but also national legislators as well as private sectors as a kind of global trend. This trend has been crystalized at the EU CSDDD (Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive) in 2024 and now under the consideration of amendments.
It points out some deficits, or at least problematic points of CSDDD and other national domestic DD laws, taken under analytical scrutiny as exemplar cases, and give rise to questions about this global trend of DD laws in general, in terms of legal mechanism for regulating GVCs (Global Value Chains) and for improving the protection of human rights, environmental interests, and workers’ rights.
Fee(s): Complimentary Admission. Successful registrant will receive a confirmation email by 11 August 2025 from ccla@smu.edu.sg to confirm your registration. Contact: ccla@smu.edu.sg. Speaker Details: Professor Hisashi Harata is a Professor at Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo. He teaches Private International Law. His current research focuses on international corporate law and labor law involving Japanese companies and their subsidiaries in Asia. His research also covers different legal aspects of the global society. He is a member of International Academy of Comparative Law, and the editorial board member of Asian Journal of Comparative law.
He joined Harvard IGLP Scholars Workshop as faculty… RSVP: . Type: Seminars & Workshops. Subject: Law. Audience: SMU Faculty & Staff. Current Student. Public. Academic Community.
Thursday, August 21, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Meeting Room 5-04, Level 5,
Singapore Management University
Yong Pung How School of Law
55 Armenian Street
Singapore 179943.
For more info visit law.smu.edu.sg. Dentons Rodyk Dialogue 2025
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Fee(s): Complimentary. Contact: ccla@smu.edu.sg. RSVP: . Type: Talks & Forums. Conferences & Symposiums. Social & Networking. Subject: Law. Finance & Financial Markets. Audience: Public. Professionals. SMU Faculty & Staff. Academic Community. Alumni.
Tuesday, September 9, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Singapore Management University
SMU Hall, Basement 1
Yong Pung How School of Law
55 Armenian Street
Singapore 179943.
Herbert Smith Freehills - SMU Asian Arbitration Lecture 2025
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Fee(s): Complimentary. Contact: ccla@smu.edu.sg. Speaker Details: The Right Hon Lady Arden . RSVP: . Reserve a seat: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=cGSaCKfTpEaIUnPAxpjHKf6RWB6GNwFGo9i54DXrhCVUQkFBWjcwUDBIMzhVUTQzVk83VjA3RzZRRi4u. Type: Lectures. Talks & Forums. Conferences & Symposiums. Subject: International. Law. Audience: Public. SMU Faculty & Staff. Academic Community. Professionals. Partners. Alumni.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
Singapore Management University
Mochtar Riady Auditorium, Level 5, SMU Administration Building
81 Victoria Street
Singapore 188065.
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