Narinder Singh, CILRAP Conversations

Speaker: Ambassador Narinder Singh (formerly, Chair, International Law Commission; Legal Adviser, Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Topic: A CILRAP Conversation on World Order focusing on the role of a legal adviser on international law to a state; differing models of state legal advisory in international law across Southeast-Asia; co-operation between similar offices across foreign ministries; the influence exercised by legal advisers and the state inter se; a general convention on terrorism, prospects and obstacles; national liberation movements as an exception to terrorism; India’s contribution towards the realization of a general convention on terrorism; prospects for individual initiative in the future of international law-making; an apparent trend of state preference for the formulation of principles over conventions; Justice Radha Binod Pal’s legacy; and state of international law research and education in India.
Date of recording: 23 August 2017
Place of recording: New Delhi 
Duration of recording: 44:58
PURL of film: www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/170823-singh/
PURL of related Perrin de Brichambaut Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/170520-perrin-de-brichambaut/
PURL of related Fife Conversation: https://www.cilrap.org/cilrap-film/180605-fife/