CUHK LAW members Prof. Christopher ROBERTS , Prof. Ryan MITCHELL and Ms. Michelle ONG participated in the 4th Asian Legal History Conference held at Hue University Faculty of Law in Vietnam on 25 and 26 July 2024.
Supported by the CUHK LAW CCTL’s Transnational Legal History Group and the University of Oxford Programme in Asian Laws, the conference was a great success, attracting more than 50 scholars from more than a dozen jurisdictions around the world, including Vietnam, Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and New Zealand. Conference presentations addressed historical issues relating to legal transplantation, colonial and post-colonial legalities, comparative constitutional law, Asian approaches to international law, private law, criminal law, prisons, customary rights, labor law, marriage law and pre-modern legal orders, among other issues.
Prof. Christopher Roberts spoke at the introduction to the conference, moderated one of the opening panels, the keynote presentation at the end of the first day, and presented his work on forced labor on the second day of the conference. Prof. Ryan Mitchell delivered a keynote address on the state of the field of Chinese Legal History at the end of the first day of the conference. Ms. Michelle Ong, a Research Assistant at CUHK LAW, presented her work on the internationalization of maritime labor standards on the second day of the conference.
The Asian Legal History Conference series was created in 2021 by CUHK LAW Professors Ngoc Son Bui (now University of Oxford) and Christopher Roberts. Previous (1st– 3rd) conferences were hosted, organized, and supported by the Hue University Faculty of Law, Thammasat University Faculty of Law, the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the National University of Singapore and CUHK LAW.
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