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Transnational Legal History / Law and Empire

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6th Asian Legal History Conference 2026 – FOL

The Call for Papers for the Sixth Asian Legal History Conference, on 6-7 August 2026, hosted by the Faculty of Law, Multimedia University, Melaka, Malaysia, is now open!

Applications are due by 1 April 2026.

Please find the call here: www.mmu.edu.my/fol/alhc2026/

07.02.2026 01:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In just under one week's time!

29.10.2025 02:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Yeah sure he visited Constantinople/Palestine/Egypt/India/Singapore/China/Sumatra/the Straits Settlements and spoke fourteen languages (English/Dutch/German/Italian/French/Romanian/Polish/Russian/Slav(?)/Turkish/Greek/Arabic/Hindi/Malay) before being a private detective in S Africa, but who hasn't

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CCTL Transnational Legal History Group Book Talk – β€˜To Detain or To Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750-1840’ by Dr. Kiran Mehta (Online) - The Chinese University of Hong Kong Register To Detain or to Punish is a history of imprisonment in the London metropolis between roughly 1750 and 1840. It challenges traditional ideas about who and what prisons were for and how they operated. Read more…

Join us online on November 4, from 5:30-7:00 HKT, for a talk by Dr. Kiran Mehta on her fantastic new book!

www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...

09.10.2025 09:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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True, but not in the way he meant it (Peter Marsh, J Chamberlain, p 495)

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CCTL-GCLHSS Joint Book Talk- β€˜Legal Histories of Hong Kong in Conversation: Extradition and Empire: Sovereignty and Subjecthood in Hong Kong and Penalties of Empire: Capital Trials in Colonial Hong Kong’ - The Chinese University of Hong Kong Register This special event highlights two groundbreaking new books exploring the legal history of Hong Kong. Penalties of Empire, by Christopher Munn, explores how judges, juries and lawyers strove to deliver justice during the 150 Read more…

Please join us for this fantastic dual book talk on 22 October at 6:30, in person and online!

www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...

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Picture shows a book cover for Dangers of Youth

Picture shows a book cover for Dangers of Youth

I'm honoured to be speaking to @petermcphee.bsky.social on Mon 6 Oct at 1pm AEDT about my book Dangers of Youth: Age, Criminality, and Juvenile Justice Reform in Third Republic France at an online event hosted by the George RudΓ© Society. Please register here: uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Call for Papers - Legal History in Asia and Beyond: Lessons from the Past for the Present

17-18 March (Hong Kong) & 23 March (Oxford) 2026 (participants can join in either location)

Deadline 31 October 2025

www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...

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Oh

23.08.2025 05:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A good conference for photos!

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From Porter, Critics of Empire (2nd ed, 2007)

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Call for Papers: Evidence Matters

Organized by the amazing folks at DISSECT and the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, in honor of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights

Deadline 30 September 2025

dissect.ugent.be/events/inter...

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We are thrilled to relaunch this year as an international, multilingual, open access journal, published by the Comparative Constitutions Project and the International Association of Constitutional Law.

First reissue out this June! Read more at tinyurl.com/mtsuc85u and follow to get future issues!

16.06.2025 21:22 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
Research Assistant Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

I'm recruiting a research assistant for my project β€œThe Origins of Development: Anti-Colonial Resistance, Social Struggles and Labor Reform in the Interwar British Empire.” Work with me in Hong Kong!

cuhk.taleo.net/careersectio...

11.04.2025 07:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This Wednesday!

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#CallforPapers for upcoming conference @tlrhub.bsky.social in Dublin in July 2025. Of interest to anyone studying #frontiers #boundaries and #Borders in disciplines such as geography, history, political science, anthropology, sociology and law. #CfP deadline 31 March 2025.

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This Friday!

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Aziz Rana, Constitutional Collapse β€” Sidecar Trump and the law.

Too good, as always, by the clearest-eyed observer of the broad historical development of the United States

newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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CCTL Transnational Legal History Group Book Talk - 'Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought' by Dr. Bruno Leipold (Online) - The Chinese University of... Register In Citizen Marx, Dr. Bruno Leipold argues that, contrary to certain interpretive commonplaces, Karl Marx’s thinking was deeply informed by republicanism. Marx’s relation to republicanism chan...

Very excited to welcome Prof. @brunoleipold.com for a talk on his fantastic book on April 2 - online so join us from wherever you are!

www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...

21.03.2025 01:15 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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"It is often asserted that human rights discourse and practice principally originated following the Second World War, or as late as the 1970s, and that human rights claims are inherently Western and liberal. None of these assertions are true."

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CCTL Transnational Legal History Group Book Talk – 'Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914–1919' by Prof. Sakiko Kaiga - The Chinese University of Hong Kong Register In this account of the origins of the idea of the League of Nations, Sakiko Kaiga casts new light on the pro-League of Nations movement in Britain in the era of the First World Read more…

Very excited to host Professor Kaiga in two weeks time! Join us online or in person if you're in Hong Kong

www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...

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Guess the year

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From Robert Beevers, The Garden City Utopia: A Critical Biography of Ebenezer Howard (1988)

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Deeply tragic

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Thank goodness we didn't end up adopting a system in which full private ownership helped lead to speculation and increasing injustice in land distribution

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10.03.2025 05:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Who ushered in the modern world?

That's right, leading Quaker anti-slavery chocolate magnates who made their fortunes through colonial slave labor.

In this paper I will ...

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