2020 CIBEL Global Network Young Scholars Workshop

The Herbert Smith Freehills China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre invites you to attend the 2020 CIBEL Global Network Young Scholars Workshop. The 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 projects or thoughts that are related to the CIBEL field. 

This year's workshop will have four 90-minute online sessions, each focuses on one or more research areas within the CIBEL field. 18 excellent speakers from some top institutes around the globe have been selected to present at the workshop, including the University of Pennsylvania (US), University of Edinburgh (UK), University of Oslo (Norway), Trade and Fiscal Policy Division, Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India), National University of Singapore (Singapore), University of Geneva (Switzerland), China University of Political Science and Law (China), just to name a few.

At each session, our experienced CIBEL members will commentate on the presentations and ask questions, so this is also a good chance for law students and junior researchers to learn from the peers and to get some tips on doing research from senior scholars. 

Workshop topics and speakers

#1. Competition Law and Corporate Law (9.30am -11am AEST)

• Ms Belle Qi Guo (UNSW Law) “An Analysis of the Impact of the New Voluntary Disclosure on Continuous Disclosure in China: Foolproof or Full of Loopholes?”
• Dr Roza Nurgozhayeva (Nazarbayev University, Republic of Kazakhstan) “Corporate Law After COVID-19” 
• Ms Shuo Yang (UNSW Law) “Reflecting on the accountability system of non-profit residential care institutions during the COVID-19 outbreak pandemic in China”
• Dr Sin Chit Lai (University of Pennsylvania) “Deterrence of the dual-track notice system under Hong Kong’s Competition Ordinance”
• Mr Peicheng (Matthew) Wu (UNSW Law/Shanghai Jiao Tong University) "The Implications of the US-China Trade Agreement on the Civil Protection of Trade Secrets in China: Is it a Game-Changer?"

#2. Arbitration and Dispute Settlement (11.30am-1pm AEST)

• Mr Lance Ang (National University of Singapore) "International Commercial Courts and the Interplay Between Realism and Institutionalism – A Look at China and Singapore"
• Dr Mark McLaughlin (Singapore Management University/China University of Political Science and Law) "COVID-19 and The Singapore Convention: Have the Stars Aligned for Investor-State Mediation?"
• Ms Hui Pang (UNSW Law) "Renewable Energy Investment and Climate Change Mitigation: Is The Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanism Ready for Public Interest Litigations?"
• Ms Yue Zhao (University of Geneva) "Revisiting Chinese IIAs during the COVID-19 pandemic: Are public policy clauses a sufficient defence for emergency measures?"
• Ms Wanyi Wang (Renmin University of China) Presentation title to be announced

#3. Investment Law (2.30pm-4pm AEST)

• Ms Apeksha Chauhan (Trade and Fiscal Policy Division, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, India) "Global FDI restrictions post COVID-19: Maintaining national security or deaccelerating Globalisation"
• Ms Kehinde Olaoye (Chinese University of Hong Kong) "Force Majeure Clauses, Investor-State Contract Disputes and the Covid-19 Pandemic"
• Ms Nicola Strain (University of Oslo) "Assessing emergencies before investor-state arbitral tribunals: BITs fit for purpose to address global health pandemics?"
• Mr Swargodeep Sarkar (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur) "India, Health-related Regulatory Measures, and Investment Treaty Arbitration – Can Police Powers Doctrine be a Knight in Shining Armor?"

#4. Chinese International Business Law and Trade Law (4.30pm-6pm AEST)

• Associate Professor Huiqin Jiang (Zhejiang Sci-Tech University) "Selective Engagement and Selective Decoupling – A Changed Paradigm in US-China Economic Relations"
• Assistant Professor Luyao Che (China University of Political Science and Law) “Levelling the Playing Field for Foreign Investors: What Needs to be Done in China?”
• Mr Salvatore FP Barillà (University of Edinburgh) “EU-China trade and investment relations and COVID-19: old struggles and new challenges”
• Dr Davide Zoppolato (University of Macerata, Italy & gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development, UK) “The Marginalization of the WTO in International Trade: Nationalization and Reshoring Answers to the Pandemic”

Audiences can register in one or multiple sessions. Each session will have a separate live stream link that will be sent to the registered mailbox on the day of the event. Please double check your email address when register and make sure you access the right link on the day if you would like to watch more than one sessions.