Greater China Legal History Seminar Series – ‘The Development of China’s Inbound Investment Law’ by Prof. Lutz-Christian Wolff (Online) 18 March 2022 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series https://youtu.be/_973tPAehC8 Arguably the development of China’s investment law system mirrors the development of China’s economy if not the whole Read more…
‘Early Cross-Border Legal Issues: Law in the Age of Matteo Ricci’ by Prof. Stuart McManus (Online) 11 February 2022 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series The Pearl River Delta region has long attracted merchants from the rest of Asia and beyond. This is documented from almost the Read more…
‘From Copyright Norm to Copyright Law: The First Copyright Statute in the Qing Dynasty and Republican China’ by Prof. Jyh-An Lee (Online) 21 January 2022 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series The 1910 Copyright Code of the Great Qing Dynasty (“Qing Copyright Code”) was the first copyright Read more…
‘Controversies on the Morality and Effectiveness of Judicial Torture in late Ming China’ by Dr. Ka-chai Tam (Online) 19 November 2021 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series This seminar explores the controversial views of late Ming China (1550-1644) to judicial torture from two opposite but interactive directions. Read more…
‘Magistracies in Colonial Hong Kong’ by Dr. Christopher C. Munn (Online) 29 October 2021 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series According to one early observer, magistrates in colonial Hong Kong ‘came more in contact with the mass of the people in the administration of law and justice Read more…
Greater China Legal History Seminar Series – ‘The Small House Policy and the Court of Appeal’ by Mr. Malcolm Merry (Online) 10 September 2021 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series In January this year after months of deliberation Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal decided that the Small Read more…