Achievement

Four CIBEL researchers were awarded a $283,250 research grant under the Australian Government’s ARC 2022 Discovery Projects scheme for their innovative project titled ‘China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A New Model of Economic Governance?’

Congratulations to CIBEL member Scientia Professor Ross Buckley for being named the most-read legal author in the world by SSRN.

CIBEL is pleased to announce that one of our PhD candidates Dany Xie has won the 2021 Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration Essay Competition (ACICA) with her essay titled ‘lura Novit Curia and Due Process’.

Two of CIBEL’s Higher Degree Research (HDR) students, Shuo Yang and Hui Pang, have been recognised in the UNSW 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition.

CIBEL is proud to announce that one of our members Associate Professor Alexandra George is a finalist in the annual Women Lawyers Achievements Awards.

CIBEL is proud to announce that our very own member Associate Professor Kun Fan is one of twenty-three members of the UNSW Law & Justice community that has made it to the finalist list for the annual Australian Law Awards.

Professor Heng Wang's co-authored research paper has been rewarded a Best Paper Prize at the Machine Lawyering Conference 2021 hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong during 14-16 January 2021.

CIBEL member Associate Professor Weihuan Zhou has been elected as Co-Secretary of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) after two years’ service as an Executive Council member since 2018.

Journal article “China’s Approach to the Belt and Road Initiative: Scope, Character and Sustainability” has ranked as a highly cited article of the Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL). 

CIBEL's Professor Heng Wang is named as Australia’s leader in the research field of International Law by The Australian’s Research 2020 magazine.

UNSW Law’s Herbert Smith Freehills China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre member Dr Weihuan Zhou has been promoted to Associate Professor effective from 1 January 2021. 

CIBEL Centre's Associate Professor Heng Wang recently served as Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI).

The Co-director of UNSW Law’s Herbert Smith Freehills China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre, Dr Heng Wang has been officially announced to be promoted to professor at UNSW in December 2019.

The Herbert Smith Freehills CIBEL Centre recently announced 6 successful recipients of the Centre’s seed funding with the aim to support original and collaborative research that relates to Chinese international business and economic law.

Lucas Lixinski, Heng Wang and Jonathan Bonnitcha have received a $10,000USD grant from the United States Department of State to organise a speaker series during the 2019 academic year.

It is our pleasure to announce that CIBEL member and intellectual property expert, Dr Alexandra George, has been promoted to Associate Professor. 

UNSW Scientia Professor Ross Buckley will be the inaugural Chair in Disruptive Innovation and Law, focusing on the effect of technological change in key sectors globally.

Dr Weihuan Zhou has been invited to serve as a guest editor for the Journal of International Trade Law and Policy (JITLP) on an upcoming special issue on “The International Economic System and China”.