Highlights
[CONFERENCE] The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Artificial Intelligence: Governance and Liability
AI offers significant benefits across sectors but also raises complex ethical, governance, and liability challenges. This two-day conference brings together academics and industry experts to examine how governance and liability frameworks can promote responsible and fair AI. It explores global and national approaches, the application of existing and new legal principles, and appropriate remedies when AI-enabled products or services cause harm, emphasising the need for multi-stakeholder collaboration.
Hard Tech and Soft Skills - TRAIL x CFG
On Wednesday 2 September 2026, the Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & the Law (TRAIL) partnered with the Centre for Future-ready Graduates (CFG) to host legal practitioners at a careers talk for students on legal practice in the areas of intellectual property (IP) and technology, media and telecommunications (TMT).
Book Launch – Privacy & Data Protection Law
On 13 August 2026, Mr Benjamin Wong launched his book, Privacy and Data Protection Law, at the Singapore Academy of Law at the Adelphi. He was joined by Professor David Tan (Co-Director, TRAIL), Ms Gail Wong (Assistant Commissioner, Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC)) and Mr Yu Ken Li (Group Data Protection Officer, Advance Intelligence Group) for a lively panel discussion after delivering his lecture titled “Boundaries of Privacy Law”.
Book Launch - Economic Torts in Singapore
On 8 June 2026, Professor David Tan, Co-Director of TRAIL, together with his co-author Joshua Phang, launched their new book Economic Torts in Singapore at the Salon of the National Museum of Singapore.
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 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.