On 16 September 2025, Professor Stephen Mason, Visiting Professor at NUS Law, delivered the 8th seminar in the Seminars on Law and Technology (“SLATE”) series with a timely talk titled “Presumption vs Reality: Unpacking Legal Trust in AI Analysis”. The seminar, moderated by Associate Professor Daniel Seng, examined the long-standing legal presumption that computers are reliable and asked whether this assumption still holds in an era increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence (AI).

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. Pho

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).

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.

In a landmark move for legal innovation, NUS Law will join forces with Google to pioneer the future of law with the development of a Singapore law-specific large language model (LLM) and TRAIL is proud to be part of the project team. This is part of a major new collaboration between NUS and Google, with plans underway for a joint research and innovation centre to bring together resources to pursue applied AI projects across diverse domains. Unlike generic AI models, this domain-specific LLM will be rooted in local statutory interpretation, case precedents, and the unique nuances of Singapore’s legal system.

Dr Yangzi Li recently showcased her latest research at the IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) Conference, held at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan.

Professor David Tan, Co-director of the Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & the Law (TRAIL) and Head (Intellectual Property) at the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business, both at NUS Law, discussed how parodies may be better protected in trademark infringement and dilution claims.

TRAIL had the privilege of hosting Minister of Justice Dr Kathrin Wahlmann and her delegation from the Ministry of Justice of Lower Saxony in Germany on 21 February 2025. They were particularly interested in TRAIL's research on the legal and technical ramifications arising from the use of AI in the legal industry, with a focus on the courts in particular.

On Thursday 27 February 2025 at the Conrad Centennial, the 12th Developments in IP Law Series came to a close with its final of four sessions focusing on trade marks with over 150 participants in attendance.

On 20 February 2025, Mr Benjamin Wong represented NUS Law at the Breach of Confidence/Privacy & Data Protection session of the 12th Developments in IP Law series, co-organised by the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business and IPOS International. This annual flagship event at Suntec City Convention Centre attracted about 100 participants for this session with legal practitioners from a wide field of law firms, corporate entities and government sectors. Amongst the attendees were representatives from A*STAR, Changi Airport Group, Health Sciences Authority, Housing & Development Board, Mastercard and Microsoft Asia.

TRAIL would like to present our annual report "YEAR IN REVIEW 2024" that chronicles our events and publications from January to December 2024. Thank you for your support, especially if you have been a speaker or participant at our events.

Professor Anthony Niblett with the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Toronto, Canada, delivered the seventh seminar in the Seminars on LAw and Tech ("SLATE") series. In his seminar, drawn from his paper "Problems with Probability" which was jointly published with Professor Casey from Chicago Law School, Anthony explored the issues relating to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems to help triage the backlog of cases and facilitate the resolution of civil disputes in courts as well as for arbitration proceedings. Anthony noted that AI can accomplish this by establishing the facts of cases and by way of predicting the outcomes of disputes.