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📢 IP Week @ SG 2025 is happening on 26-27 Aug! Organised by IPOS, this global event will explore the evolving role of IP. In conjunction, SMUCDL will co-host “IP in Trade and Digital Commerce” with Alibaba Group & The McCarthy Institute on 28 Aug: smu.sg/u1nb.

How can we create a digital future that is safe, inclusive, and designed for all generations? In two recent Straits Times articles, CDL Affiliated Faculty Prof Lim Sun Sun underscored the need to design technology with empathy for both the elderly & young: smu.sg/nswv

We are pleased to share the latest World Economic Forum report, Asset Tokenization in Financial Markets: The Next Generation of Value Exchange. Prof Heng Wang, CDL faculty member, contributed as a working group member to this timely and important publication. Access here: bit.ly/45Jc8Oo

The #SMUYPHSL and the SMU Centre for Digital Law is pleased to co-host the Yong Pung How Visiting Professorship Lecture 2025 on AI and Automation in Public Administration, taking place at SMU on 7 August. Learn more: smu.sg/gseo To register: smu.sg/v8nk

#SMUCDL's Senior Research Affiliate Assoc Prof Błażej Kuźniacki will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming YIN Latam Regional Webinar on "Can we trust what we can’t explain? Decision-making in tax cases based on AI" on 8 July 2025. Register here now: bit.ly/4l2TFRJ

#SMUCDL faculty member Prof Heng Wang recently contributed to two panels at the Global Sustainable Development Congress, discussing #AIethics, #Governance, and #GreenSkills education shaping a sustainable future: smu.sg/j9a3. #GSDcongress

#SMUCDL faculty members participated in #ICAIL2025 at Northwestern University, where Asst Profs Dirk Hartung and Lim How Khang, together with SMU Law students, contributed to the conference: smu.sg/bdhk.

SMUCDL Deputy Director Assoc Prof Liu Han-Wei and CDL Senior Research Affiliate Prof Ching-Fu Lin (National Tsing Hua University 國立清華大學) recently co-authored an insightful and timely article titled “Silicon Statecraft Alignment: Taiwan’s Strategic Bet on US-Led Export Controls”: bit.ly/3Gi0GPy.

We warmly congratulate Asst Prof Nydia Remolina on her contribution to The APAC State of Open Banking and Open Finance Report, recently published by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF): smu.sg/3z3k.

Alibaba, The McCarthy Institute and the SMU Centre for Digital Law jointly present this one-day international seminar to be held in Singapore on 28 August 2025. Join us to explore the future of digital commerce alongside leading experts. Register here: smu.sg/s634

#SMUCDL hosts the 4th Computational Legal Studies Workshop from 8-9 Sep 2025 in Singapore and a parallel Cambridge Forum on AI Issue on the subject. For details and to submit, see: 📝 Workshop call: smu.sg/pr3s 📝 Issue call: bit.ly/3IaOjoY See you there!

We congratulate Assoc Prof Liu Han-Wei, CDL Deputy Director, on his tenure conferment, and Asst Prof Nydia Remolina, former CDL Head of Industry Relations, on her new role as Deputy Director at COMMLAWASIA@SMULAW. We are grateful for her contributions and wish her every success ahead!

Yesterday, we had the privilege of hosting Professor Lee Andrew Bygrave (University of Oslo, Universitetet i Oslo), CDL Senior Research Affiliate, for a thought-provoking seminar titled "Design Norms in Law: Just a Passing Fad?": smu.sg/6rkm.

We are pleased to announce the renewal of our Senior Research Affiliate, Assoc Prof Błażej Kuźniacki, Advisor and Senior Manager in Global Tax, Policy & International Tax Services at PricewaterhouseCoopers Belastingadviseurs, and Professor of Law at Lazarski University.

We congratulate CDL Director A/P Jason Grant Allen and former CDL Research Affiliate Martin Liao Qiu Xu on their latest journal article and policy brief, "Digital Economy Innovation and Implementation in the Indo-Pacific: Towards a 'Singapore Effect’?": smu.sg/vzk9.

As part of Chips Diplomacy Support Initiative (CHIPDIPLO)’s "Three Questions To" series, Dr. June Park (𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚔, 𝙿𝚑.𝙳.), CDL Senior Research Affiliate, shares her insights with Institut Montaigne on the geo-economic forces behind AI infrastructure: bit.ly/4lREKtQ.

Join us for the Yong Pung How Visiting Professorship Lecture on 7 August 2025, where The Right Honourable Lord Philip Sales will speak on AI and Automation in Public Administration. This accredited CPD activity event is complimentary. Register here: smu.sg/v8nk.

On 8 July 2025, SMUYPHSL Dean Prof Lee Pey Woan delivered the opening plenary address at the Obligations XI conference hosted at Harvard Law School, addressing the legal gaps in tackling non-consensual intimate deepfakes (NCID): smu.sg/oe0e.

#SMUCDL was pleased to host Professor Dov Greenbaum of Reichman University for an insightful research seminar titled "Autonomous Weapons and AI Warfare: Ethical Challenges for the Asia-Pacific Region": smu.sg/wocd.

It is our pleasure to announce the appointment of a new group of esteemed academics joining us as Senior Research Affiliates. Their expertise will enrich our community and advance dialogue at the intersection of law, tech, and policy. Learn more: smu.sg/qay8.