Webinar: Fossil Fuel Feuds at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by Prof. Harro van Asselt, NUS Centre for International Law [Online, 29 October 2026]

The Centre for International Law (CIL) at the National University of Singapore is hosting Fossil Fuel Feuds at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), a webinar in its Distinguished Speaker Series, on Thursday, 29 October 2026, from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Singapore time (1:30 pm to 3:00 pm IST), on Zoom.

The ICJ's Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change identifies fossil fuel production, licensing and subsidisation among the activities to which international climate change obligations apply, and suggests that such activities may constitute internationally wrongful acts. The lecture analyses the Advisory Opinion and the proceedings leading up to it, including the scientific and legal background that brought fossil fuel production and subsidies into the case, the Court's reasoning, its jurisprudential advances and limitations, and the potential impacts of the Opinion.

• Speaker: Harro van Asselt, Hatton Professor of Climate Law, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge; Fellow and Director of Studies at Hughes Hall; Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law; Professor of Climate Law and Policy, University of Eastern Finland Law School; Affiliated Researcher, Stockholm Environment Institute.
• Moderator: Mohammad Hazrati, Senior Research Fellow, NUS Centre for International Law.

The webinar is held online on Zoom through NUS's public webinar registration form, which asks for the participant's country. Students, researchers and practitioners in international, environmental and climate law will find it relevant.

Free. Registration is through the NUS Zoom webinar form, and the event page publishes the Zoom webinar ID with no passcode.

Register on the NUS Zoom webinar registration form. The event page also gives the joining details: join at zoom.us/join with Webinar ID 873 0775 7086 (no passcode). The event page links to the free Zoom sign-up for anyone without a Zoom account. Registration is open until the webinar starts at 1:30 pm IST (4:00 pm SGT) on 29 October 2026, so register by 28 October to be safe.

The webinar is a SILE accredited CPD activity (1 Public CPD Point, Practice Area: International Law, Training Category: General) for Singapore practitioners, subject to the attendance policy in the SILE CPD Guidelines, including logging in at the start and out at the end and not being away for more than 15 minutes.