[SMULA] Recent Highlights Series - Navigating Trade, Investment and Sustainability in the Era of Economic Security

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Navigating Trade, Investment and Sustainability in the Era of Economic Security


Pasha L. Hsieh Professor SMU Law	Sherzod Shadikhodjaev Professor KDI School of Public Policy and Management	Yvonne Guo Yong Pung How Junior Fellow SMU Law	Wolfgang Alschner Professor Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa

SYNOPSIS

This seminar examines how sustainability, investment, economic security, and technological change are reshaping international economic law and legal practice.

It explores the rise of green regionalism across the EU, the United States, and Asia, emerging sustainability and due diligence obligations affecting deforestation and global supply chains, and the evolving architecture of economic security in ASEAN.

Particular attention will be given to how these developments create new compliance challenges, market-access risks, and strategic considerations for businesses and their legal advisers.

The seminar will also consider how artificial intelligence is transforming legal research in trade and investment law, with attention to both its practical potential and its limitations.

Together, these developments highlight the growing interaction between regulatory risk, sustainability objectives, investment governance, and geopolitical change, and their implications for businesses, governments, and legal practitioners operating across increasingly fragmented regulatory environments.

This session is part of the SMU Law Academy “Recent Highlights” series. Designed with the busy practitioner in mind, this series provides participants with a convenient platform to obtain timely and practical bite-sized analysis of the latest developments in various areas of the law. The series will be taught by leading and experienced experts curated from academia and practice. Each topic in the series is distilled into a short-duration online webinar so that busy legal professionals can be effectively updated with the most material developments affecting their practice.

SPEAKERS

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FEES

a.	Registration Fee Registration fee of S$163.50* (inclusive of GST) applies
b.	Group Registration Registration fee of S$147.15* (inclusive of GST) applies
c.	SMU Alumni (LLB / JD / LLM graduates) Registration fee of S$147.15* (inclusive of GST) applies
	Please note that there will be no refund of any fees should the participant cancel the registration/ fail to attend the event. However, registration is transferable. Notice of any change in participant should be sent to the Academy via email* by 26 November 2026. SMU Law Academy reserves the right to cancel or postpone any event. In such case, we will arrange for the refund of fees paid.

Registration closes on 26 November 2026.

Complimentary for full-time SMU Law Faculty, Staff & Students. Please sign up with your SMU email address.

DATE

4 December 2026

TIME

2:30 pm to 4:30 pm

PUBLIC CPD POINTS

2 Public CPD Points

VENUE

Webinar

PRACTICE AREA

International Law

TRAINING LEVEL

Update

PROGRAMME

2:15 PM	Participants log in to webinar
2:30 PM	Start of Event
4:30 PM	End of Event

ABOUT THE SMU LAW ACADEMY

The SMU Law Academy has an established track record of providing the legal profession with high quality seminars and other opportunities to remain fully informed about contemporary legal developments in Singapore and beyond. Its carefully curated listing of seminars is developed with the profession’s multi-faceted needs in mind and meets the requirements of the CPD scheme. The Academy also administers the Auditing Scheme which enables members of the legal profession to consolidate and upgrade their understanding of the law by auditing courses in the School’s LL.B., J.D. and LL.M. programmes. For an overview of upcoming SMU Law Academy events, please click here.

ABOUT THE SILE CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME

This programme is an Accredited CPD Activity under the SILE’s CPD Scheme. Participants who wish to obtain CPD Points are reminded that they must comply strictly with the Attendance Policy set out in the CPD Guidelines. For this activity, this includes logging in at the start of the webinar and logging out at the conclusion of the webinar in the manner required by the organiser, and not being away from the entire activity for more than 15 minutes. Participants who do not comply with the Attendance Policy will not be able to obtain CPD Points for attending the activity. Please refer to http://www.silecpdcentre.sg for more information.

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