FACULTY OF LAW

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Professorial Lecture Series 8th Professorial Lecture

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ONE NATION UNDER SURVEILLANCE A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty

Professorial Lecture and Book Launch by Professor Simon Chesterman

chaired by Ambassador-at-Large Professor , Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Guest-of-Honour Mr K Shanmugam Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Law

Friday, 4 Mar 2011 5.30 pm – 7.00 pm Auditorium, Level 3, Blk B Faculty of Law, NUS (Bukit Timah Campus)

INTRODUCTION What limits, if any, should be placed on a government’s efforts to spy on its own citizens in the name of national security? Recent battles over privacy in the United States and Britain have been dominated by fights over warrantless electronic surveillance and CCTV; the coming years will see debates over DNA databases, data mining, and biometric identification. There will be protests and lawsuits, editorials and elections resisting these attacks on privacy. Those battles are worthy. But the war will be lost. Modern threats increasingly require that governments collect such information, governments are increasingly able to collect it, and citizens increasingly accept that they will collect it. This lecture proposes a move away from questions of whether governments should collect information and onto more problematic and relevant questions concerning its use. By reframing the relationship between privacy and security in the language of a social contract, mediated by a citizenry who are active participants rather than passive targets, the lecture offers a framework to defend freedom without sacrificing liberty.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER Simon Chesterman is Vice Dean and Professor at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, and Global Professor and Director of the New York University School of Law Singapore Programme. Educated in Melbourne, Beijing, Amsterdam, and Oxford, his previous positions include Senior Associate at the International Peace Academy and Director of UN Relations at Crisis Group in New York. Other experience includes working for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Yugoslavia and interning at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He is the author or editor of twelve books, including Law and Practice of the (with Thomas M. Franck and David M. Malone, , 2008), You, The People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building (Oxford University Press, 2004), and Just War or Just Peace? Humanitarian Intervention and (Oxford University Press, 2001).

PROGRAMME 5.00pm Registration 5.30pm - 7.00pm Lecture Light Refreshments will be served at the end of the Lecture.

ONE NATION UNDER SURVEILLANCE A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty

given by Professor Simon Chesterman

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