‘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…
From Waqf, Ancestor Worship to the Rise of the Global Trust: A History of the Use of the Trust as a Vehicle for Wealth Transfer in Singapore 19 March 2021 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series This seminar explores the historical use of the trust in Singapore Read more…
Greater China Legal History Seminar Series- ‘The History of Central Banking in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Singapore’ by Dr. Lillian Cheung, Prof. Chao Xi & Prof. Christian Hofmann (Online) 26 February 2021 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series Central banking plays a central part in a Read more…
Toppling Statues and Changing Names – Does the Law Protect Embarrassing or Awkward Heritage in Hong Kong? by Prof. Steven Gallagher 22 January 2021 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series In the last few years, statues and other monuments have been toppled and torn down around the Read more…
The History of Hong Kong’s Tax Law System by Prof. Michael Littlewood 27 November 2020 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series In 1939 the British colonial Hong Kong government attempted to introduce what it regarded as a “normal” income tax. The expatriate business community would reluctantly have Read more…
Carl Schmitt and the Development of Conservative State Theory in China by Prof. Ryan Mitchell 9 October 2020 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series Over the last decade or so, China’s Supreme People’s Court and the country’s political leaders have consistently rejected the idea of a “judicialized” Read more…
“Feeding the Emperor – Administrative Law in Tang Dynasty China” by Prof. Norman P. Ho 18 September 2020 < Recap of Greater China Legal History Seminar Series The Tang Liu Dian 唐六典 (hereafter, “TLD”), compiled in 738–739 A.D. during the Tang dynasty, is an important administrative law code which lists Read more…