We were delighted to host the first leg of the 6th Asian Legal History Conference – “Legal History in Asia and Beyond: Lessons from the Past for the Present” – at the CUHK Graduate Law Centre and Sha Tin Campus on 17–18 March 2026.

Co-hosted by CUHK LAW and the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, the conference brings together approximately 120 scholars and researchers from more than two dozen jurisdictions to explore a rich array of themes—from labour law and women’s rights to legal pluralism, constitutionalism, and the law of the sea.

During the Hong Kong session, we were honoured to welcome three distinguished keynote speakers:

Prof. Renisa Mawani from the University of British Columbia examined emergency powers in colonial India, Burma, and Siam.

Prof. Zhiqiang Wang from Fudan University Law School considered ways to connect the fields of Chinese and global legal history.

Prof. Chin Leng Lim from CUHK LAW explored wider trends and dynamics of divergence and convergence in global legal scholarship.

The second leg of the conference will take place at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford on 23 March.