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Min-Liang Tan fronts inaugural TechTalk@TRAIL

On 16 April 2026, TRAIL launched TechTalk@TRAIL, a talkshow billed as “Where tech leaders meet leading lawyers”. NUS Law and TRAIL are excited to welcome back its illustrious alumnus Min-Liang Tan (LLB 2002), Co-Founder and CEO of Razer Inc, for a candid conversation with Professor Tan Cheng Han, President of the Law Society of Singapore, to discuss the issues relating to AI, gaming and the law.

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.”

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Prof David Tan explaining the limits of copyright protection for a Jackson Pollock painting and consequently its permissible copying by Dolce & Gabbana reproduced on a sequinned blazer

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).

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.

[TRAIL]2025 YIR