Highlights

Seminar on “Corporate Governance: Legal and Theoretical Perspectives”
On 28 August, the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, hosted a seminar on “Corporate Governance: Legal and Theoretical Perspectives.” The keynote speaker, Dr Peter Underwood from the University of Auckland, delivered a stimulating lecture examining corporate governance through both legal and theoretical lenses.
Fashion & Intellectual Property Book Launch in Hong Kong
On Thursday 11 September 2025, Professor David Tan, lead editor of Fashion and Intellectual Property, kicked off a series of book launch events beginning in Hong Kong.


EW Barker Centre for Law & Business hosts symposium on Unjust Enrichment
On 21 August 2025, the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business convened a symposium examining contemporary issues in the law of restitution and unjust enrichment. The event, moderated by Professor Steven Elliott KC, gathered faculty members, researchers, students and practitioners for a stimulating evening of legal debate.
Innovation must remain human-centred in the age of generative AI: WIPO chief at NUS Law conference
In a landmark gathering of leading legal scholars, policymakers and industry experts, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Director General Daren Tang delivered a keynote address calling for human creativity to remain at the core as IP laws evolve. His call set the tone for the two-day “Intellectual Property and Technology in the 21st Century” conference organised by the Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & the Law (TRAIL) and the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business at NUS Law, co-hosted with law schools from Columbia, Oxford and Tsinghua, marking the first academic collaboration of its kind across these leading global institutions.
