Achievement

The 2024 CIBEL-NFACR Conference held on the 11 April brought together global legal, academic, business, and industry experts to discuss ‘Australia-China Business in the Digital Age: Navigating the Rapids.’ 

CIBEL congratulates Scientia Professor Ross Buckley on his five-year appointment to the Payments System Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia. 

World Bank Group’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) appoints Dr Lu Wang Scholar in Residence. 

CIBEL is excited to announce that a team of researchers have been awarded a $130,000 research grant under the Australian Government’s National Foundation for Australia-China Relations (NFACR) scheme.

Dr Dan Xie, Research Associate Professor at East China University of Political Science and Law, shared her doctoral research experience at UNSW CIBEL upon graduation on 30 November 2022. 

Dr Xue (Sophia) Bai has been co-awarded the Concurrences 2022 PhD. Award for her research on the ‘Reform of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises: What China Can Learn from the Practice of Competitive Neutrality Policy in Australia.’

The CIBEL Centre would like to congratulate Peicheng (Matthew) Wu, Shangxuan (Martin) Wu, Dan Xie, and Qi (Belle) Guo on completing their PhD.

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.