Greater China Legal History Seminar Series – ‘Deportation in Hong Kong History’ by Dr. Christopher C. Munn (Online) 21 March 2025 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDBYtFgdOtw In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the Hong Kong government deported tens of thousands of people it deemed Read more…
Greater China Legal History Seminar Series – ‘The Dian – a Pre-revolutionary Security Right with Post-revolutionary Implications’ by Dr. Ulrike Glueck (Online) 28 February 2025 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRTxEgyaEB0 The term Dian (典) refers to the following situation: an object, mostly land or buildings, Read more…
Greater China Legal History Seminar Series – ‘Crying for Justice: The impact of public opinion on the local judiciary during Ming’ by Dr. Tam Ka-chai (Online) 10 January 2025 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series https://youtu.be/oBHONrtxgrcThe local judicial court of Ming China is basically an open system, Read more…
Greater China Legal History Seminar Series – ‘How to own a forest: shareholding, futures contracts, and ancestral trusts in southern China’ by Prof. Ian Miller (Online) 22 November 2024 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SGgHELPCnk Can you own a forest? To a modern audience, this question Read more…
Greater China Legal History Seminar Series – ‘The Gates of Kam Tin – An Early Case of Repatriation of Looted Cultural Property’ by Prof. Steven Gallagher (Online) 18 October 2024 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbvuAxCbkiw In 1898, China’s Qing Emperor leased the New Territories for Read more…
Greater China Legal History Seminar Series – ‘Sir TL Yang – Hong Kong’s first Chinese Chief Justice’ by Prof. Li Chen (Online) 6 September 2024 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series https://youtu.be/q4937z1famU This presentation focuses on Sir TL Yang, the first ethnic Chinese Chief Justice of Hong Read more…
Greater China Legal History Seminar Series – ‘Shanghai in the 1930s, the German Civil Code and the Tragic Story of a Brilliant Legal Mind’ by Prof. Lutz-Christian Wolff (Online) 15 March 2024 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series https://youtu.be/ch-sWUgzgD4 This seminar combines three fascinating stories: the history Read more…
Greater China Legal History Seminar Series – ‘Chinese Customary Marriages and Concubinage in Hong Kong’ by Prof. Steven Gallagher (Online) 02 February 2024 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series https://youtu.be/AHwVBJPwAVMSoon after the establishment of the British colony of Hong Kong in 1843, Chinese customs of marriage and Read more…
Greater China Legal History Seminar Series – ‘Fengshui and Court Practice in Ming and Qing’ by Prof. Ian M. Miller (Online) 12 January 2024 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series https://youtu.be/F1pKS8-a5W4 Sometime in the sixteenth century, two men surnamed Li and Chen, had a dispute over a Read more…
Greater China Legal History Seminar Series – ‘Contracts as Tools to Promote Morality and Social Order: The Tang Dynasty’s Regulation of Contractual Relationships’ by Prof. Chunlin Leonhard (Online) 3 November 2023 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series https://youtu.be/MMZJX3zustg Some legal scholars seem to believe that China historically Read more…