Past Events

The topic of this session was “COVID-19 and digitalisation of dispute resolution” and was led by CIBEL member Associate Professor Kun Fan.

The workshop offered a great opportunity for people to listen to scholars who are young but have great potentials in the legal study and profession on their research projects or thoughts that are related to the CIBEL field.&nbs

The COVID-19 pandemic is strongly affecting foreign investment and is likely to have lasting effects on investment law and policy making.

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on the global economy and flow of capital and people. Business organisations are facing unprecedented challenges given the incoming wave of economic recession.

Would COVID-19 provide an opportunity for governments to reflect on their decisions and strategies in the past three years and take steps to reinvigorate the WTO as a major forum for trade negotiation and dispute resolution?

The COVID-19 pandemic presents a clash of humanitarian and economic goals and costs and the extent of the resultant loss and damage to lives and communities is huge.

The Herbert Smith Freehills China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre hosted the CIBEL Global Network Conference and Young Scholars Workshop as a series of virtual panel sessions in June 2020.

This Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course run by UNSW Edge contained three units, each of the three were given by a member of the Herbert Smith Freehills China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre.

This seminar examined the significance of BRI for both Chinese economic development and regional economic cooperation in the aspects of infrastructures, trade, finance, etc. in the past six years.

This lecture discussed the latest development in China’s specialized intellectual property system, and the problems that will be resolved in the near future. 

This presentation highlighted the realities of international economic complementarities and purchasing power mean that many Australian industries will need to deal with more exposure to China, not less.

Call for papers for the inaugural CIBEL Global Network Young Scholars Workshop on China International Business and Economic Law: Technological Change and the Future of International Economic Legal Order: China and beyond on 1 May 2019 in

Call for papers for the inaugural CIBEL Global Network Conference on China International Business and Economic Law: Technological Change and the Future of International Economic Legal Order: China and beyond on 1 May 2019 in Sydney.

Mr Doug Ferguson, NSW Chairman at KPMG Australia and Partner-in-Charge of KPMG's Asia & International Markets, delivered the keynote on Australian businesses and their dealings in China, and made comments on Chinese investment in Aus

UNSW Law’s Herbert Smith Freehills China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre had its official launch on 28 February 2019 at 6 pm.

CIBEL hosted the official launch of CIBEL Member, Dr Weihuan Zhou’s co-edited book titled ‘Non-market Economies in the Global Trading System: The Special Case of China’. 

The presentation addressed how India and China, two leading economies with contrasting development models and priorities, have organized themselves to  shape international trade law, and in particular the law of the World Trade Organizat

The workshop run by the Herbert Smith Freehills CIBEL Centre, as part of a program of work under the UNSW-Tsinghua Research Collaboration Grant Scheme, was held successfully at UNSW Sydney on 18 November 2018.