CATPLI Writes is an initiative of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies – Thammasat University Faculty of Law Peer Learning Initiative that was conceptualised in 2022 and formally launched in 2024. Its objectives are to promote student scholarship amongst law students at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Thammasat University (TU), as well as to shed light on some of the contemporary issues found in various Asian jurisdictions, through the lens of eager, soon-to-be lawyers. CATPLI Writes, therefore, does not seek to restrict its contributors to legal issues found in Singapore and/or Thailand. Rather, it serves as a platform for student contributors to showcase their legal research, thinking, and writing skills, by writing on an issue that they are passionate about.

How does CATPLI Writes seek to do this? For starters, all student contributors are mentored by faculty members and/or full-time researchers from NUS and TU. These mentors will then guide the student contributor, all the while ensuring that the research remains directed by the student. Then, once the student contributor is ready to publish their work, they would be guided through the publication process by a staff member at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies. Once published, the student contributor’s research will be added to this microsite.

As part of its launch, CATPLI Writes successfully collaborated with the Singapore Law Review (SLR) in 2024 to publish a series of nine articles as part of a special volume. The SLR is Asia’s oldest student-run legal publication, managed exclusively by the students from the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. The nine articles can be found here, along with an editorial from the Project Directors. As and when new publications become available, such publications will be listed here.

Articles

• Toh Ding Jun and Celina Eu Yi Qian, ‘Editorial’ (2024) 41 Singapore Law Review xiii-xvi
• Andrew James Harding, ‘Territorial Autonomy and Conflict Resolution: Three Case Studies from Southeast Asia’ (2024) 41 Singapore Law Review 31-50
• Keerakiat Pratai, ‘Judicial General Anti-Tax Avoidance Doctrines in Thailand’ (2024) 41 Singapore Law Review 51-66
• Alden Wordsworth Ng, ‘Playing with Temporality: South Korea’s Flawed Deployment of Prospective Overruling at Constitutional Law’ (2024) 41 Singapore Law Review 67-90
• Arada Vanapruk, ‘The Balancing of Scales: Legality Versus Legitimate Expectations’ (2024) 41 Singapore Law Review 91-108
• Johan Ding Kar En, ‘Singapore’s Informal Justice Experience: Evaluating the Practice of the Small Claims Tribunals’ (2024) 41 Singapore Law Review 109-140
• Nawinda Klumsombut, ‘Killer Acquisitions & Merger Control: Making a Case for the Thai Adoption of the German Transaction Value Threshold’ (2024) 41 Singapore Law Review 141-161
• Sha Runhe, ‘An Analysis of the “Adequate Protection Principle” in the Cross-Border Data Flow System in the People’s Republic of China’ (2024) 41 Singapore Law Review 185-202
• Tanyapat Chaiseri, ‘Moving Towards an Optimal Remedy for Precontractual Liability in Thai Administrative Contracts’ (2024) 41 Singapore Law Review 203-227
• Law Yan An, ‘Private Nuisance in Singapore: From Foreseeability to Reciprocity’ (2024) 41 Singapore Law Review 228-247

 

This project is a collaboration between the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore and Thammasat University Faculty of Law.

For enquiries, please contact the CALS at: cals@nus.edu.sg.