CIBEL Global Network

This year we'll be exploring the theme of “Restoring Global Supply Chains: From Regulatory Divergence to Connectivity and Coherence." Submit your paper proposal now! 

A recap of the 2023 CIBEL Global Network Conference and Young Scholars Workshop. 

This panel addressed some of the existential challenges for the international economic legal order including climate actions, national security, digital trade and public health. 

This panel discussed cutting-edge issues in the ongoing global effort to promote digital economic transformation. 

This panel explored the strategies adopted by the United States and its allies to deal with China amid ongoing geopolitical tensions.

Global experts addressed some of the latest developments in economic cooperation at regional and global levels in the first panel of the 2023 Global Network Conference.

Congratulations to the winner of the 2023 CIBEL Global Network Young Scholar Prize,  Assistant Professor Stefanie Schacherer. 

Mr John W. H. Denton AO, Secretary General of International Chamber of Commerce discusses 'Global Cooperation, but not as we know it: the business case for reforming multilateral governance.'

This year we'll be exploring the theme of “Reshaping the Global Economic Governance: Opportunities and Challenges for the Asia-Pacific Region." Submit your paper proposal now! 

Associate Professors Kun Fan and Xiao-chuan (Charlie) Weng have co-edited a book based on CIBEL’s 2020 Global Network Conference Series.

Meet the winner of the 2022 CIBEL Young Scholars Workshop and find out more about the conversation surrounding changes in international economic law. 

This event discussed the challenges and opportunities to enhance the sustainable development dimension of the international investment treaties and investor-state arbitration.

2021 prize winners Josef Ostřanský and Raymond Yang Gao talked about their experience at the 2021 Workshop and shared advice with future participants.

This year, we will explore the theme of “Changes in international economic law: Digitalisation, sustainability and beyond”. Submit your application for the Young Scholars Workshop now!

This session approached this important topic from diverse viewpoints in trade and investment, with the major focus of the presentations ranging from investment obligations, competition law and policy and the regulation of digital platforms.

The Herbert Smith Freehills China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre held the 2021 Global Network Conference and Young Scholars Workshop online from 9 July to 1 October 2021.

This panel explored the ongoing efforts of ISDS reform from different institutions (including ICSID, UNCITRAL Working Group III on ISDS Reform) and probes public opinion on ISDS through behavioural experiments.