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Overview

Simon Chesterman is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with significant contributions to political science and international relations, artificial intelligence, law, safety research, and sociology and political science.

Their work often focuses on intersections of law, artificial intelligence, and intellectual property. Key topics include:

  • Law, AI, and Intellectual Property
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • International Law and Human Rights
  • Artificial Intelligence in Law
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • Copyright and Intellectual Property

Simon Chesterman has published extensively in various venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International and Comparative Law Quarterly
  • The American Journal of Comparative Law
  • Policy and Society
  • Digital Government Research and Practice

Notable recent papers are:

  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE LIMITS OF LEGAL PERSONALITY, 2020, International and Comparative Law Quarterly
  • Good models borrow, great models steal: intellectual property rights and generative AI, 2024, Policy and Society
  • Through a Glass, Darkly: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Opacity, 2021, The American Journal of Comparative Law
  • Good Models Borrow, Great Models Steal: Intellectual Property Rights and Generative AI, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Misinformation, Disinformation, and Generative AI: Implications for Perception and Policy, 2024, Digital Government Research and Practice

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Tsuhan Chen
  • Kokil Jaidka
  • Wynne Hsu
  • Min-Yen Kan
  • Mohan Kankanhalli

Simon Chesterman has also contributed to book publications. One such publication is We, the Robots? (2021), published by Cambridge University Press, and another is Enhancing women's resource rights for improving resilience to climate change (2021), published by Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) eBooks.

Best Publications

  • You, the people : the United Nations, transitional administration, and state-building

    Simon Chesterman

  • Just war or just peace? : humanitarian intervention and international law

    Simon Chesterman

  • From mercenaries to market : the rise and regulation of private military companies

    Simon Chesterman;Chia Lehnardt

  • Ownership in Theory and in Practice: Transfer of Authority in UN Statebuilding Operations

    Simon Chesterman

  • An International Rule of Law

    Simon Chesterman

  • Just War or Just Peace?

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  • Just War or Just Peace

    Simon Chesterman

  • Making states work: State failure and the crisis of governance

    Simon Chesterman;Michael Ignatieff;Ramesh Thakur;David M. Malone

  • “Leading from Behind”: The Responsibility to Protect, the Obama Doctrine, and Humanitarian Intervention after Libya

    Simon Chesterman

  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE LIMITS OF LEGAL PERSONALITY

    Simon Chesterman

  • Humanitarian Intervention: Changing the rules about rules? Unilateral humanitarian intervention and the future of international law

    Michael Byers;Simon Chesterman

  • The Rule of Law and Transitional Justice

    Simon Chesterman;Ian Johnstone;David M. Malone

  • Walking Softly in Afghanistan: the Future of UN State-Building

    Simon Chesterman

  • From Mercenaries to Market

    Simon Chesterman;Chia Lehnardt

  • Civilians in War

    Simon Chesterman

  • Democratic Governance and International Law: “You, the People”: pro-democratic intervention in international law

    Michael Byers;Simon Chesterman

  • East Timor in Transition: Self-Determination, State-Building and the United Nations

    S. Chesterman

  • After Mass Crime: Rebuilding States and Communities

    Béatrice Pouligny;Simon Chesterman;Albrecht Schnabel

  • The Turn to Ethics: Disinvestment from Multinational Corporations for Human Rights Violations - The Case of Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund

    Simon Chesterman

  • ' We Can't Spy … If We Can't Buy! ' : The Privatization of Intelligence and the Limits of Outsourcing ' Inherently Governmental Functions '

    Simon Chesterman

  • Making States Work: State Failure and the Crisis of Governance

    Simon Chesterman;Michael Ignatieff;Ramesh Chandra Thakur

  • Secretary or General?: The UN Secretary-General in World Politics

    Simon Chesterman;Kofi A. Annan

  • You, the people

    Simon Chesterman

  • Law and Practice of the United Nations

    Ian Johnstone;David M. Malone;Simon Chesterman

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff Central European University
Thomas M. Franck
Thomas M. Franck New York University
David W. Kennedy
David W. Kennedy Harvard University

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