CCTL – Law Research Forum

CCTL Transnational Legal History Group Book Talk – ‘Chinese Workers of the World: Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan–Indochina Railway’ by Prof. Selda Altan (Online) 17 October 2024 << Back to Transnational Legal History Group This talk explores the construction of the French railway between China and Vietnam from 1898 Read more…

CCTL Obligations Lab Asia Seminar – ‘The Scope and Structure of Unjust Enrichment’ by Prof. Duncan Sheehan (Online) 4 June 2024 << Obligations Lab Asia The law of unjust enrichment has attracted heated debate, including about its very existence; however, one important debate has been the extent to which unjust Read more…

CCTL Comparative Public Law Research Forum Seminar – ‘Inventing Necessity: Law and Revolution in Postcolonial Africa’ by Dr. Coel Kirkby (Online) 31 May 2024 << Comparative Public Law Research Forum In the late 1960s, judges in newly independent African states faced the hardest of hard cases: whether to recognize the Read more…

CCTL Cross-Border Legal Issues Dialogue Seminar Series – ‘Cross-Border Enforcement of Judgments: Navigating the New Hong Kong-Mainland Reciprocal Enforcement Mechanism and Common Law Pathways’ by Mr. Rico Chan (Online) 30 May 2024

CCTL Seminar – ‘The Place and Development of Turkic States in International Arbitration’ by Dr. Can Eken (Online) 13 May 2024 << Corporate Law and Goverance Cluster <<Transnational Economic Law and Dispute Settlement Group International arbitration is a dispute resolution method frequently used in cross-border disputes. Apart from traditional and Read more…

CCTL Cross-Border Legal Issues Dialogue Seminar Series – ‘Approach to Service Out: A State of Confusion’ by Mr. Kelvin Tse & Mr. Alex Chan (Online) 12 Apr 2024 << Back to The Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law Service out of the jurisdiction is an issue that comes up frequently Read more…

CCTL Transnational Legal History Group Seminar – ‘Labor Law and Social Crisis in Colonial French West Africa’ by Mr. Wallace Teska (Online) 3 April 2024 << Back to Transnational Legal History Group The imposition of French colonial rule in West Africa fundamentally transformed local labor regimes. In the first decades Read more…

The 3rd EU-Asia Aviation Law Forum- ‘Air Passenger Rights in the EU and Asia’ (Online) 28 March 2024 << Back to Transnational Economic Law and Dispute Settlement Group Jointly organized by the CUHK LAW CCTL and the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London, the EU-Asia Read more…

CCTL Environmental, Energy and Climate Law Cluster Seminar – ‘In Pursuit of a Just Energy Transition through International Unification of Laws on Public-Private Partnership: A Case Study of Central Asia’ by Mr. Shaimerden Chikanayev (Online) 21 March 2024 << Back to Environmental, Energy and Climate Law Cluster It is generally Read more…

CCTL Transnational Legal History Group Book Talk- ‘Completing Humanity: The International Law of Decolonization, 1960-82’ by Prof. Umut Özsu (Online) 19 March 2024 << Back to Transnational Legal History Group After the Second World War, the dissolution of European empires and emergence of ‘new states’ in Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Read more…