International Progress Organization

  Organisation internationale pour le progrès

 

 

 

«THE FULLERTON ROUNDTABLE»

 IDEA AND POLITICS OF GLOBAL JUSTICE

 

The Fullerton Hotel, Singapore

10 September 2026

Fullerton Hotel, grand staircase: Hans Köchler, center, with speakers and team members

From left: Prof. Valur Ingimundarson (Iceland); Mr. Mahdev Mohan (Singapore); Mr. Clemens Spoo (Germany); Prof. Rauf Versan (Türkiye); Prof. Margaret deGuzman (USA); Mr. Davide Sirna (Italy); Prof. Anthony Lang (U.K.), Prof. Hans Köchler (Austria); Prof. Steven Roach (USA); Prof. Stefan Talmon (Germany); Dr. Magda Karagiannakis (Australia); Prof. Yahli Shereshevsky (Israel); Prof. Aniruddha Rajput (India);  Ms. Nicole Sim, Legal Intern, KGP Legal (Singapore).

Roundtable Consultation at Inland Revenue Room
10 September 2026

Prof. Hans Köchler, President of the International Progress Organization, delivers introductory remarks.

Prof. Hans Köchler, moderator of the roundtable, center, flanked by academic team members Davide Sirna (Trade Analyst - ITA Italian Trade Agency), left, and Clemens Spoo  (University of Hamburg, Germany)

From left: Prof. Rauf Versan (Türkiye), em. Professor of International Law, Istanbul University, ad hoc Judge (2008) at the European Court of Human Rights; Prof. Stefan Talmno, Director of the Department of International Law, University of Bonn (Germany), former Professor of Public International Lawe, University of Oxford, UK; Prof. Yahli Shereshevsky, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa (Israel); Prof. Steven Roach, Professor of International Relations, School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa (USA); Prof. Aniruddha Rajput, Distinguished Professor, National Law University, Delhi, member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations (2017-2022) (India).

From right: Prof. Margaret deGuzman, Professor of Law, Co-Director, Institute for International Law and Public Policy, Temple University, Philadelphia, Judge, United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (USA); Prof. Valur Ingimundarson, Professor of Contemporary History, Chair of the Department of History, University of Iceland, Reykjavik (Iceland); Dr. Magda Karagiannakis, Course Director, Juris Doctor Program, School of Law, La Trobe University (Melbourne), Victims and Defence Counsel, International Criminal Court (Australia); Prof. Anthony Lang, Professor of International Political Theory, University of St. Andrews, Scotland (UK); Mr. Mahdev Mohan, Advocate and Solicitor (Supreme Court of Singapore), Member, Committee on AI & International Law, International Law Association Graduate Fellow, Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (Singapore).

 

Prof. Margaret deGuzman, Temple University, USA, addresses issues of global justice in a multipolar world.

Prof. Stefan Talmon, Supernumerary Fellow, St. Anne's College, Oxford (UK), University of Bonn, Germany,  questions the Security Council's role as judge.

Prof. Anthony Lang, University of St Andrews, UK, comments on Plato's philosophy of justice and law.

Prof. Aniruddha Rajput, National Law University Delhi, India, comments on North-South asymmetry in international criminal justice.

Dr. Yahli Shereshevsky, University of Haifa, Israel, analyzes pre-trial justice at the International Criminal Court.

Prof. Rauf Versaan of the University of Istanbul, Türkiye, talks about the administration of international criminal justice.

Prof. Steven Roach of the University of South Florida, USA, explains the pragmatic idea of global justice.

Prof. Valur Ingimundarson of the University of Iceland addresses the crisis of the international liberal order.

Dr. Magda Karagiannakis of La Trobe University, Melbourne, talks about the weaponization of accountability

 

Mahdev Mohan, Advocate and Solicitor at the Supreme Court of Singapore, shares his experience with the Cambodia trials.

During lunch break: Fullerton Hotel, main entrance
Speakers and team members of the Roundtable

Welcome Reception at THe LIGHTHOUSE
9 September 2026

Hans Köchler, President of the International Progress Organization, welcomes Prof. Margaret deGuzman at the Lighthouse.

Academic team members Clemens Spoo, left, and Davide Sirna, in conversation with Mahdev Mohan; Singapore Marina Bay in the background.

Prof. Rauf Versan, left, in conversation with Dr. Yahli Shereshevsky, center, and Mahdev Mohan.

Dr. Magda Karagiannakis in conversation with Prof. deGuzman.

Gala Dinner at the Raffles Hotel

10 September 2026 

 

Concert harpist Fontane Liang

Prof.  Hans Köchler, President of the International Progress Organization,
 hosts banquet at the East India Room of the Raffles Hotel

Prof. Walter Woon, former Attorney-General of Singapore, delivers keynote address on
Remembrance and Reconciliation: The Danger of Historical Amnesia

Guests listen to the keynote speech of Professor Walter Woon. From left: Jason Subler (USA), Global General Manager of Reuters; Prof. Anthony Lang (UK), Prof. Steven Roach (USA), Prof. Rauf Versan (Türkiye).

Following the keynote speech, the host of the dinner, Prof. Hans Köchler, President of the I.P.O., raises a toast to  the guest of honor Prof. Walter Woon.

Professor Walter Woon, right, in conversation with Prof. Stefan Talmon.

Farewell Lunch - "Port of Call" - Marina Bay

Clockwise from left: Prof. Hans Köchler, Prof. Rauf Versan, Dr. Karagiannakis, Prof. Talmon, Prof. deGuzman, Mr. Sirna, Prof. Ingimundarson, Prof. Lang, Prof. Rajput, Mr. Spoo.

News Release 

Executive Summary of the roundtable consultation