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10.00am-10.15am AEDT |
Welcome |
Associate Professor Weihuan Zhou (Co-Director of CIBEL Centre, UNSW Law & Justice)
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10.15am-11.45am AEDT |
Panel 1: Emerging Economic Instruments and Agreements: Towards Cooperation or Fragmentation, or Geopolitical Frictions? |
Mr Simon Lester (Founder and President, China Trade Monitor) “The U.S. Shift from Enforceable Trade Liberalizing Agreements to Coordinating Investment: Short-Term Experiment or Permanent New Paradigm?”
Assistant Professor Stefanie Schacherer (Singapore Management University) “Agile Governance and Regulatory Cooperation under Free Trade Agreements”
Associate Professor Wei Yin (Southwest University of Political Science and Law) “Rethinking Investment Incentives and International Subsidies Disciplines”
Associate Professor Alexandr Svetlicinii (University of Macau) “The Unsettled Governance of the Dual Use Goods in International Economic Law: What Use for Security Exceptions?”
Chair: Professor Lisa Toohey (University of Newcastle) |
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2.00pm-3.30pm AEDT |
Panel 2: From De-coupling to De-risking: Implications and The Way Forward
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Professor James Nedumpara (Head, Centre for Trade and Investment Law, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT)) “Inclusive and Resilient Supply Chains and the Place of Non-Trade and Sustainability Concerns”
Professor Jaemin Lee (Seoul National University) “Supply Chain Reformulation and International Economic Law”
Professor Yuka Fukunaga (Waseda University) “How to Define and Respond to Economic Coercion.”
Professor Jingxia Shi (Renmin University of China) "To Decouple or to De-risk? A Perspective from the Trade Rules"
Chair: Professor Henry Gao (Singapore Management University) |
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10.00am-11.30am AEDT |
Panel 3: Industrial Policy for A Green Transition: Confronting Competition and Disruptions
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Assistant Professor Mandy Meng Fang (City University of Hong Kong) “Revisiting Green Industrial Policy in an Era of Disruption”
Professor Bryan Mercurio (Simon F.S. Li Professor of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong) “The Impact of Green Industrial Policy”
Professor James Laurenceson (Director, Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI), University of Technology Sydney) “The inadequacies of a geopolitical frame in promoting resilient critical minerals supply chains”
Associate Professor Michelle Lim (Singapore Management University) “A Bridge Over Troubled Waters? Can and Should Environmental and Economic Law Come Together to Realise the Aspirations of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework?”
Chair: Associate Professor Weihuan Zhou (Co-Director of CIBEL Centre, UNSW Law & Justice) |
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2.00pm-3.30pm AEDT |
Panel 4: Regulatory Challenges and Cooperative Opportunities in the Digital Transformation
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Professor Deborah Healey (Co-Director of CIBEL Centre, UNSW Law & Justice) "Digital market power: issues and some solutions"
Ms Shailja Singh (International Trade Lawyer and Policy Advisor, Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade) and Ms Monika (Legal Consultant, Centre for WTO Studies and Centre for Research in International Trade, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade) “Decoding the Digital Trade Rules on Source Code Access - An Asia-Pacific Perspective”
Professor Heng Wang (Singapore Management University) “How to handle uncertainties in digital transformation? Case study of central bank digital currency”
Dr Marta Soprana (Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science) “Digital Economy Agreements as a Vehicle for AI governance”
Chair: Dr Anton Didenko (Member of CIBEL Centre, UNSW Law & Justice) |
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5.00pm-6pm AEDT |
Keynote: Global cooperation, but not as we know it: the business case for reforming multilateral governance
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Mr John W.H. Denton AO (Secretary General of International Chamber of Commerce)
Chair: Professor Andrew Lynch (Dean, UNSW Law and Justice) |
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2.00pm–4.00pm AEDT |
Young Scholars Workshop
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Ms Pallavi Arora (Legal Consultant, Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade) “Common Concern of Humankind and The Dissemination of Technology: The Case for Tax Breaks”
Dr Xinyue Li (Associate Researcher, East China University of Political Science and Law) “Pluralistic Reconciliation or Relative Politicization: Emerging Energy Security in International Trade Law Through Quantizing Geoeconomic”
Dr Xiaomeng Qu (Post-doc researcher, Southwest University of Political Science and Law) “Digital Trade Governance in Asia-Pacific Region”
Ms Yi Tang (PhD Candidate, University of Hong Kong) “Responding to Global Health Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges for Reforming General Public Policy Exceptions in Asia-Pacific IIAs”
Commentator: Professor Michelle Ratton Sanchez Badin (São Paulo Law School of Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil)
Chair: Associate Professor Kun Fan (Member of CIBEL Centre, UNSW Law & Justice) |
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4.00pm AEDT |
Closing Remarks |
Associate Professor Weihuan Zhou (Co-Director of CIBEL Centre, UNSW Law & Justice) |
About CIBEL Global Network
Established in 2015 as a UNSW long-term strategic initiative within UNSW Law & Justice, the China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre is the world’s largest centre outside China for the research and teaching of international business and economic law issues focusing on the impact of China domestically, in the Asia Pacific and internationally. The CIBEL Global Network, initiated in 2018, aims to connect and engage on CIBEL issues with scholars, practitioners, regulators and the public in the Asia Pacific and worldwide. The CIBEL Centre supports and promotes this network by, among other things, holding conference and Young Scholars Workshop annually.