ISCLH Yale Workshop: Chinese Legal History in Comparative Context
Please note that panel times are tentative and updates may be made prior to the start of the workshop.
Asian Law, History and Cultures
December 11, 9:30-11:00 am | Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall
Daniel Botsman (Chair)
Jisoo Kim (Commentator)
Circulation of Law and Jurisprudence in Korea and China
Frederic Constant, University of Nice
“Wounding Our Customs and Debasing our Traditions”: Law, Gender, and Pluralism in the Chinese Community at Batavia, 1740-1811
Luther Cenci, Stanford University
Reconceptualizing “Lineality” in Republican Chinese Law
Yue Du, Cornell University
Legal History and Asian Economies
December 11, 11:10 am-12:10 pm | Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall
Thomas Buoye (Chair)
Formal Barriers, Informal Commerce: Economic Connections in Greater China during the Cold War
Philip Thai, Northeastern University
The Ideological Foundations of the Qing Fiscal State
Taisu Zhang, Yale University
Early China-Europe Legal Comparisons
December 11, 1:20-2:50 pm | Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall
Valerie Hansen (Chair)
Zhiqiang Wang (Commentator)
The Magistrates Doubtful Cases: Kinship and the Law in Early Imperial China (221 BCE-220 CE)
Jesse Watson, University of California, Berkeley
Punishments in the Early Chinese and Roman Empires: Beyond Myth
Karen Turner, College of the Holy Cross
Law in the Creation of the Early Chinese and Roman Empires: A Comparative Perspective
Robin Yates, McGill University
Seeing “Others” in Law
December 11, 3:00- 4:00 pm | Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall
Robin Yates (Chair)
Li Chen (Commentator)
Global Desires and Local Legislation: Sumptuary Laws in the Early Modern Pacific Trade
Xiaolin Duan, North Carolina State University
China and the Missionary Ether of 19th Century
Jedidiah J. Kroncke, University of Hong Kong
Law and Culture in Qing China
December 11, 4:10-5:10 pm | Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall
Peter Perdue (Chair)
Shuang Chen (Commentator)
Officials and Imperial Chinese Justice: Public and Private Misconduct in Qing Administrative Law
Nancy Park, California State University, East Bay
Printing and the Making of Early Modern Chinese Legal Culture: From a Comparative Perspective
Ting Zhang, University of Maryland
Identity Politics and Law in East Asia
December 12, 8:30-9:30 am | Room 129, Sterling Law Building
Fabian Drixler (Chair)
Thomas Buoye (Commentator)
On the Invention of Identity Politics: The Buraku Outcastes in Japan
Mark Ramseyer, Harvard University
Identity, Subjectship and Naturalization under the Tang Law
Victor Fong, Australian National University
Roundtable 1 - Chinese Legal History in Comparative Context : China and the West
December 12, 9:40-11:10 am | Room 129, Sterling Law Building
Li Chen, University of Toronto
Zhiqiang Wang, Fudan University
James Whitman, Yale Law School
Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School
Roundtable 2 -East Asian Legal History in Comparative Context
December 12, 11:20 am-12:50 pm | Room 129, Sterling Law Building
Shuang Chen, University of Iowa
Jisoo Kim, George Washington University
Mark Ramseyer, Harvard Law School