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\n\t\t[CALS Article] ST Commentary: Singapore’s social cohesion faces big test in the age of borderless viral hate speech\n\t<\/h3>\n\t

CALS Director Jaclyn Neo has warned that Singapore’s social cohesion faces growing strain from borderless online hate speech spreading rapidly through global digital platforms. Writing in The Straits Times, she said preventive legal tools such as the Online Criminal Harms Act are needed to curb harm early, alongside digital literacy and community dialogue to uphold racial and religious harmony.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t[CALS Lunch Book Talk] The Failures of Others: Justifying Institutional Expansion in Comparative Public and International Law\n\t<\/h3>\n

Arguments from failure-claims that institutions must expand their powers because others are failing-are widespread but poorly understood in law. Their ambiguity and overlap with doctrines like emergencies obscure analysis. Recognising them as a distinct public law concept allows constitutional theory to better evaluate their legitimacy.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\n\t\t[CALS] Stephen Brogan-Jones Day Legal Fellowship Lecture on the Rule of Law Do international courts matter? International law and governance in a turbulent time\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h3>\n\tJoin us for the Stephen Brogan-Jones Day Legal Fellowship Lecture on the Rule of Law, featuring distinguished international jurist Raul C. Pangalangan. Drawing on Southeast Asian cases, this lecture will explore how international courts shape state behaviour, influence diplomacy, and sustain rule-based global governance, especially amid rising geopolitical tensions.\n
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Stanley Yeo, Visiting Professor of Law at NUS, made substantial contributions to the two-day Faculty Development Workshop on teaching criminal law at NLSIU, Bengaluru. He served as a plenary panelist, session chair, and led a full teaching session on Defences, sharing comparative insights, practical pedagogical strategies, and guidance for early-career academics.<\/p>\n

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Highlights [CALS Article] ST Commentary: Singapore’s social cohesion faces big test in the age of borderless viral hate speech CALS Director Jaclyn Neo has warned that Singapore’s social cohesion faces growing strain from borderless online hate speech spreading rapidly through global digital platforms. Writing in The Straits Times, she said preventive legal tools such as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5819","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.nus.edu.sg\/cals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.nus.edu.sg\/cals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.nus.edu.sg\/cals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.nus.edu.sg\/cals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.nus.edu.sg\/cals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/law.nus.edu.sg\/cals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12138,"href":"https:\/\/law.nus.edu.sg\/cals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5819\/revisions\/12138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.nus.edu.sg\/cals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}