Rivers and Rice: What Lawyers and Legal Historians Should Know about Medieval Japan

Rivers and Rice: What Lawyers and Legal Historians Should Know about Medieval Japan

John Owen Haley - William R. Orthwein Distinguished Professor of Law, Washington University

Friday, October 17, 2008 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
SLB128, Law School See map
127 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 6511

The Council is pleased to present the Tenth Annual John W. Hall Lecture on Japanese Studies. The subtext of the lecture is how an understanding of the institutional history of medieval Japan helps to explain the primacy of private law and civil adjudication in the Western (now Global) Legal Tradition.

Region: 
Japan