This is a course about how to evaluate and conduct rigorous, epistemologically plural qualitative research. It will both introduce you to key concepts and methods – cause and case studies, positionali...

Regulation and governance have become cross-cutting themes in law and the social sciences. Empirically we see an explosion of non-state regulatory networks; supermarkets impose standards on farmers in...

Training seminar

Competitive Balance and the EU-UK TCA – A New Mission for Trade Liberalisation?Presentation by Damian Chalmers, Vice Dean and Professor, Faculty of Law, University of SingaporeMonday, 1st February, 11...

Diplomatic activities did not happen in a social vacuum. People involved in them were not only governmental officials and often met in different locations under various circumstances. Following up on ...

Institutions are the second nature of society. Creations of men and women, institutions order social, political, economic and even cultural intercourse. Indeed, institutions constitute the very basi...

Training seminar

For SPS 1st-year researchers only.All sessions will be held online through Zoom

The Workshop will take the form of a series of sessions during the second and third terms with the aim of discussing and helping researchers to improve a draft paper they are working on, culminating i...

Nomothetic accounts of politics have postulated a deductive framework to explain political behavior, in principle applicable across space and over time. In this framework, self-interest is the driving...

Training seminar

This course offers a concise introduction to the Banking Union. Its aim is twofold. First, the course seeks to endow participants with a sound understanding of the rationale and historical roots of th...

This seminar examines the interplay of law and politics in judicial decision making from the legal and from the political science perspective. It focuses on the Court of Justice of the EU.The seminar ...

This course provides students the opportunity to experience the full arc of a complex, collaborative, transparent and reproducible research project. Its goal is to prepare you to produce research that...

After the heightened tension between the United States and Iran during the Trump administration, the risk of an all-out war in the Persian Gulf has dangerously increased. While international attention...

Departmental seminar

For SPS 1st-year researchers only.All sessions will be held online through Zoom

This course offers a concise introduction to the Banking Union. Its aim is twofold. First, the course seeks to endow participants with a sound understanding of the rationale and historical roots of th...

This presentation deals with the nuts and bolts of publishing a book covering topics such as selecting a publisher, making the first approach, responding to referee comments, reading your contract bef...

Discussions over law and technology are all the rage as a new wave of digital innovations like artificial intelligence ( AI ), block chain, augmented reality and robotics are developed and deployed in...

Online event (via Zoom)Book abstract:In this revealing book, Katharina Pistor argues that the law selectively codes certain assets, endowing them with the capacity to protect and produce private wea...