Simon Chesterman is an Australian legal academic and writer who is currently vice-provost at the National University of Singapore and dean of the NUS's Faculty of Law and NUS College.
18 Facts About Simon Chesterman
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Simon Chesterman is a senior director for AI Governance at AI Singapore, editor of the Asian Journal of International Law and co-president of the Law Schools Global League.
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Simon Chesterman is critical of what he sees as the changing and increasingly expanding role of intelligence agencies.
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Simon Chesterman is the author or editor of twenty books and four novels.
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In 2013, Simon Chesterman was appointed as a member of Singapore's Data Protection Advisory Committee, and in 2016 joined the United Nations University Council.
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Simon Chesterman obtained a Rhodes Scholarship and completed his Doctorate in international law at the University of Oxford under the supervision of the late Sir Ian Brownlie.
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Simon Chesterman holds a diploma in Chinese language from the Beijing International Studies University.
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Simon Chesterman's play "Everything Before the 'But' Is a Lie" was performed at Oxford's Burton Taylor Studio in 2000.
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Simon Chesterman is a founding editor of the Asian Journal of International Law, published from 2011 by Cambridge University Press.
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Simon Chesterman is on the editorial boards of other journals including Global Governance, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Security Dialogue, and The Hague Journal on the Rule of Law.
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Simon Chesterman launched the most ambitious research agenda in the history of the faculty.
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Simon Chesterman was appointed as Dean of NUS Law for a fourth term in 2021, and will serve until 30 June 2023, after Professor Hans Tjio, who was appointed to be the next Dean in July 2021, relinquished the position for medical reasons.
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Simon Chesterman rejects the claim that states have a legal right to act as vigilantes in support of Council resolutions, even if they believe that this is the only means to stop a genocide.
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Simon Chesterman later drew parallels between Kosovo and the arguments raised by Russia for its 2014 annexation of Crimea.
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Simon Chesterman has written on the regulation and oversight of intelligence services, including a monograph published by Australia's Lowy Institute for International Policy in 2016.
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In January 2014, Simon Chesterman published an edited volume entitled Data Protection Law in Singapore: Privacy and Sovereignty in an Interconnected World.
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Simon Chesterman has been author or co-author of various reports for the United Nations, governments, and private bodies.
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Simon Chesterman is married to Ming Tan, daughter of former President of Singapore, Tony Tan.