Past Events

The panel discussed some of the most systemic and controversial issues relating to China, the world trading system and beyond. 

The campaign of decoupling driven by geopolitics is reshaping our business world. Commercial law plays a critical role in responding to the unpredictable future. This panel discussed these issues and more. 

This panel discussed issues emerging from the two cutting edge areas of competition law and policy.

Technology, digital currency, and climate change are crucial factors that profoundly affect world economy. New digital currencies, such as CBDC as a digital form of fiat currency, bring new opportunities and challenges to world economy.

Co-sponsored by the Centre for Commercial Law in Asia (CCLA), Singapore Management University (SMU) and CIBEL, this event focused on regulatory issues surrounding central bank digital currency (CBDC) and stablecoins.&

At this webinar, CIBEL co-director Professor Heng Wang and Professor Duoqi Xu of Fudan University discussed the impact of RCEP on eCommerce from two different aspects of international and domestic law, followed by Q&A with the a

Following the developments and changes in the post-pandemic context, this workshop co-hosted by CIBEL and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) explored cutting-edge issues about CBDC.

CIBEL hosted the 2021 CIBEL Global Network Conference and Young Scholars Workshop on the theme of “New opportunities and challenges to international economic law” from 9 July to 17 September 2021.

At this webinar, CIBEL members discussed the impact of RCEP from three different aspects of international law and had Q&A with the audience.

This conference brought together experts in different areas to discuss the cutting-edge issues and the future of international economic legal order.

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.