Highlights
TRAIL-CBFL Seminar: Regulating Autonomous Trading: Addressing AI‑Driven Market Manipulation in Australia
On 23 March 2026, the Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & the Law and the Centre for Banking and Finance Law jointly hosted a seminar by Professor Mimi Zou, Head of the School of Private and Commercial Law at the University of New South Wales. Professor Zou spoke on “Regulating Autonomous Trading: Addressing AI-Driven Market Manipulation in Australia.”
Fashion & Intellectual Property Book Launch at the National Museum of Singapore
On 12 March 2026, Professor David Tan launched Fashion and Intellectual Property, an edited book published by Cambridge University Press, at the National Museum of Singapore (NMS).
Technological Innovation: Regulatory Advances in the EU?
On 13 February 2026, Professor Iris Eisenberger, Professor of Innovation and Public Law at the University of Vienna, delivered a seminar at NUS Law examining the European Union’s evolving digital regulatory framework, with a focus on the EU AI Act.
Developments in IP Law - Trade Marks
The final seminar in the 13th Developments in IP Law Series on trade marks was held on 5 February 2026 at the Suntec City Convention Centre. About 150 participants signed up for this session ranging from trade mark examiners from IPOS to organisations and law firms such as Cambridge University Press, Defence Science & Technology Agency, Fraser and Neave, National Heritage Board, Singapore Tourism Board, Bird & Bird ATMD, Drew & Napier and Lee & Lee. EW Barker Centre for Law & Business is proud to continue to be a co-organiser of this event with IPOS International.
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TRAIL Year In Review 2025
The annual report for TRAIL, titled "YEAR IN REVIEW 2025", contains a write-up of the key conferences that TRAIL had organised in 2025 with its partner institutions, as well as highlights of publications by its academic fellows. In 2025, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization Daren Tang was the keynote speaker at the "Intellectual Property in the 21st Century: Challenges in the Next Decade" conference in Singapore, which was presented by Google, ByteDance and Baker McKenzie, in partnership with law research centres at Columbia, Oxford and Tsinghua. Read all about it here.