Highlights
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.
Distinguished Visitor Lecture: Reconceptualizing Stockholder “Disinterestedness”: Transformative Institutional Investor Changes and Motivational Misalignments In Voting
Professor Henry T. C. Hu from the University of Texas School of Law delivered a Distinguished Visitor Lecture at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, hosted by the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business. Moderated by Professor Hans Tjio, Director of the Centre, the July 30, 2025 lecture explored how transformative institutional investor changes present increasing challenges to core corporate governance principles and practices. Mr. Koh Boon Hwee, the Chairman of the Singapore Exchange Group, was the guest of honor and delivered the introductory speech.
"Access to Justice in the Creative Economy" Symposium
On 6 August 2025, the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business (EWBCLB) and the Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & the Law (TRAIL) co-organised a roundtable symposium at the Bukit Timah Campus of NUS Law titled “Access to Justice in the Creative Economy”. The session was convened by Professor David Tan (NUS Law) and Professor Graeme Austin (Victoria University of Wellington/Melbourne).