International Investment Law

What would it be like if the WTO breaks down completely and what can the States do to minimise the loss of economic welfare?

The 2020 CIBEL Global Network Young Scholars Workshop offers 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 related to the CIBEL field. 

The 2020 CIBEL Global Network Young Scholars Workshop offers 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 related to the CIBEL field. 

How has the pandemic changed the rules on foreign investment? What impact will these changes have on the existing investment treaty regime? What are the implications for the post-pandemic investment policymaking?

CIBEL Centre's Professor Heng Wang suggests that it could be meaningful to seek new solutions to trade tensions “through the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). 

Why the accession may benefit China in terms of the nation’s on-going reform towards market-oriented economy and its potential impact on reshaping the international economic order?

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on investment arbitration are significant and still emerging.

There is a pressing need for the Australian government to take actions to reinvigorate bilateral relations.

After about 20 years of taking part in the Western-dominated international economic legal order (IELO) since the World Trade Organisation (WTO) accession, China has obtained a larger impact on the global economy.

After 13 rounds of negotiation, the US-China Phase One Deal was eventually signed by the two largest economies on 15 January 2020.

Dr Weihuan Zhou, CIBEL Seed Grant recipient Associate Professor Henry Gao and CIBEL PhD student Xue Bai challenge the widespread view that existing WTO rules are insufficient for dealing with State capitalism in China.

Whether China is a “developing” or a “developed” country for the purposes of the World Trade Organisation matters a lot to the US president.

Amid the ongoing crisis surrounding the WTO, China's role and behaviour in the multilateral trading system have attracted overwhelming attention. 

“Forced” technology transfer is one of the most longstanding and significant issues in the U.S.-China trade war and international trade regulation in general.

The WTO is facing the most significant crisis since its establishment 24 years ago after the U.S. blocks the appointment of Appellate Body (AB) Members for almost two years, which may cause the system paralysed.

A member of Herbert Smith Freehills China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre, Dr Weihuan Zhou, who is an expert on WTO laws, recently co-authored two opinion pieces on the future of the WTO.