CENTRE FOR COMPARATIVE AND TRANSNATIONAL LAW (CCTL) -
Transnational Legal History Group
The Transnational Legal History Group at CUHK LAW is geared towards producing innovative work exploring under-studied areas of global legal history. The group is organized around three thematics: Asian Legal History, Comparative Approaches to International Law, and the History of Empire. The group aims to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of scholarship, to explore new opportunities for inter-faculty collaboration, and to develop channels and networks through which the insights generated by scholarship may be connected to, and help to shape, contemporary practices on the global level.
Prof. Christopher ROBERTS (Cluster Chair)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Dean, Faculty of Law
Wei Lun Professor of Law
Wei Lun Professor of Law
Professional Consultant
Professor
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor of Asian Laws, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Professor of Law, Peking University School of Transnational Law
Assistant Professor, Department of History, CUHK
Assistant Professor, Department of History, CUHK
HKIHSS Fellow, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, CUHK
2022
- Seminar – ‘Hong Kong as Historical Crucible of Refugee and Migration Crises and Governance’ by Dr. Christopher Szabla (Online) [Watch Video]
25 March 2022
2021
- Book talk – ‘Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700’ by Prof. Ron Harris (Online) [Watch Video]
12 November 2021 - Seminar – ‘Thomas Spence and Common Property: A Political Plan against Poverty and Empire’ by Dr. Matilde Cazzola (Online) [Watch Video]
28 October 2021 - Seminar – ‘Jack the Ripper, The First Media Serial Killer’ [Watch Video]
22 October 2021 - Book talk – ‘The Suicide of Miss Xi: A “Crime of Economics”?’ by Prof. Bryna Goodman (Online)
12 October 2021 - Seminar – ‘Assembling International Order: Inter-Organizational Relations as Translation’ by Dr. Guy Fiti Sinclair (Online) [Watch Video]
5 October 2021 - Seminar – ‘Shifting Sands – History of Land Reclamation in Hong Kong in the Twentieth Century’ by Prof. Nurfadzilah Yahaya (Online) [Watch Video]
13 September 2021 - Asian Legal History Conference (Online)
24 – 25 July 2021 - Book Seminar – ‘Thai Legal History’ (Online) [Watch Video]
8 July 2021 - Seminar – ‘History of International Law and China: Eurocentrism, Multi-Normativity and the Politics of History’ by Prof. Maria Adele Carrai (Online) [Watch Video]
7 July 2021 - Seminar – ‘The Constitutional History of Macau’ by Prof. Jason Buhi (Online) [Watch Video]
11 May 2021 - Seminar – “A Hundred Gates Open for Entrance”: The Expansion of the English East India Company within the Frameworks of Asian Power, 1600 – 1765 by Dr. David Veevers (Online) [Watch Video]
22 April 2021
2020
- Call for Papers – Asian Legal History Conference (Submission Deadline: 15 December 2020)
- Seminar – ‘Constitution-making in the 1780s’ by Dr. Adam Lebovitz (Online) [Watch Video]
(Co-organized with Comparative Constitutional Law Research Forum)
29 October 2020 - Seminar – ‘Protecting Women and Morals? Contagious Diseases Laws and the “Rule of Law” Ideal in the British Empire, 1886-1899’ by Dr. Jack Jin Gary Lee (Online) [Watch Video]
22 September 2020 - Seminar – ‘New Dominion Constitutionalism and New Directions in Comparative Constitutional Research’ (Online) [Watch Video]
(Co-organized with Comparative Constitutional Law Research Forum )
7 July 2020 - Book Presentation and Discussion – ‘From the Colonial to the Contemporary: Images, Iconography, Memories, and Performances of Law in India’s High Courts’ (Online)
[Watch Video]
29 June 2020