On October 19, 2019, CASS Institute of International Law, Knorad Adenuer Foundation (Germany), and the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship jointly held the Sino-Germany Roundtable on Arbitration Law: International Business Environment and Resolution of International Disputes. The roundtable, organized as a part of a series of activities held in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the establishment of CASS Institute of International Law, was attended by experts and scholars from CASS, Knorad Adenuer Foundation (Germany), Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the Supreme People’s Court of China, the High Court of the State of Hessen, Germany, the German Ministry of Economy and Energy, China Society of Arbitration Law, Tsinghua University, China University of Political Science and Law, the University of International Business and Economics, Xi’an Jiangtong University, China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Beijing Arbitration Commission, the German Institution of Arbitration, Sina Corporation and renowned law firms.

Professor Shen Sibao, director of the UIBE Institute of International Commercial Law, chairman of Shenzhen international arbitration court, and faculty of UIBE Law School, presided over the discussion of the first session on the mechanism for the appeal and enforcement against international investment arbitration awards, “Mechanism for the Appeal Against International Investment Arbitration Awards”.

Professor Xue Yuan, deputy director of the UIBE Institute of International Commercial Law, made a speech in this session, analyzing the reform of international investment arbitration from the perspectives of the necessity, the selectivity and compulsory as well as the appeal mechanism for the selection and appointment of arbitrators.