Highlights
[Working Paper] Transnational Litigation and the Quest for Climate Justice in the Global South
APCEL Director Associate Professor Jolene Lin examines the potential for transnational litigation to advance corporate climate accountability. It also seeks to identify pathways for future research that can underpin a rewarding and meaningful research agenda on climate justice in the Global South.
Justin Lim publishes journal article ‘Singapore on Thames’ Metropolitan Dreams and Planning Regimes
APCEL Academic Fellow Justin Lim’s article, ‘Singapore on Thames’ Metropolitan Dreams and Planning Regimes is published in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. In his article, Justin critically compares the UK and Singapore planning regimes within their constitutional contexts and sheds light on how divergent approaches to planning may secure different outcomes.
[Working Paper] Reconceptualizing Fairness in International Shipping Decarbonisation: The Normative Tension between Maritime Uniformity and Climate Differentiation
In the maritime regime fairness is expressed through uniform rule application. When IMO turns to regulate climate-related issue, these divergent fairness grammars collide: one pushes toward differentiation and structural change, while the other secures stability through uniformity. In her article, APCEL Research Associate Yang Huiwen, proposes a perspective for understanding and bridging the normative tensions that arise when legal regimes interact, using the law-making process in international shipping decarbonisation as its focal point.
Singapore Chapter in the International Encyclopedia of Laws (IEL): Environmental Law
APCEL Senior Research Fellow, Sean D. Tseng, and NUS Emeritus Professor Lye Lin-Heng’s Singapore chapter in the International Encyclopedia of Laws (IEL): Environmental Law is now available online. The monograph is a comprehensive country report on Singapore’s environmental legal system and provides a systematic overview of how environmental law works in Singapore.
[APCEL Workshop] Biodiversity and Free Trade Agreements
On 22-23 Jan 2026, APCEL hosted a two-day workshop on Biodiversity and Free Trade Agreements that featured 14 early-career and established scholars from Asia, Europe and New Zealand. The symposium spotlights key aspects of the relationship between biodiversity loss and international trade law, including interactions with the international biodiversity regime, and the implementation of sustainability provisions, particularly those found in bilateral and regional trade agreements.
