Law at the End of the Day

Larry Catá Backer's comments on current issues in transnational law and policy. These essays focus on the constitution of regulatory communities (political, economic, and religious) as they manage their constituencies and the conflicts between them. The context is globalization. This is an academic field-free zone: expect to travel "without documents" through the sometimes strongly guarded boundaries of international relations, constitutional, international, comparative, and corporate law.

Friday, April 19, 2024

The Chinese University of Hong Kong: 2023-24 Greater China Legal History Seminars Now Online

The Greater China Legal History Seminar Series was launched in 2017. This seminar series builds upon the success of the Chinese Customary Law Seminar Series conducted from 2014 to 2016 covering topics such as Chinese Customary Land Law, Chinese Customary Family Law and Customary Trusts in Hong Kong. The Greater China Legal History Seminar Series aims to serve as a forum to discuss the historical development of a great variety of legal issues of interest in the Greater China region. Acknowledging that the historical development is the basis of modern law and its application the seminars offer the opportunity to explore the respective contextual status. While being conducted by experts in their fields, the seminars are meant to cater to the legally interested general public. The events will usually comprise presentations by one or more speakers (up to 70 minutes) followed by a Q&A session (up to 30 minutes). Each Seminar is open and free of charge to all who are interested. (Seminar Series)

The recordings of the 2023-24 Greater China Legal History Seminars are now available here: https://www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events-recap/greater-china-legal-history-seminar-series-recap/#gc2122 .

The 2023-2024 Seminar Schedule follows below (with links.

Seminar Schedule 2023-24

Date	Details
22 September 2023 12:30-2:00 pm	Pirates and the Hong Kong Admiralty Court of 1847-49 Speaker: Ms. Sasha Allison, Barrister at Law, Central Chambers, Hong Kong
6 October 2023 12:30-2:00 pm	Death Sentences in the Great Qing, 1744-1840 Speaker: Prof. Moulin Xiong, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Sichuan, China
3 November 2023 12:30-2:00 pm	Contracts as Tools to Promote Morality and Social Order during the Tang Dynasty Speaker: Prof. Chunlin Leonhard, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
12 January 2024 12:30-2:00 pm	Fengshui and Court Practice in Ming and Qing Speaker: Prof. Ian M. Miller, St. John’s University, History Department, New York
2 February 2024 12:30-2:00 pm	Chinese Customary Marriages and Concubinage in Hong Kong Speaker: Prof. Steven Gallagher, Professional Consultant & Professor of Practice in Law, CUHK LAW
15 March 2024 12:30-2:00 pm	Shanghai in the 1930s, the German Civil Code and the Tragic Story of a Brilliant Legal Mind Speaker: Prof. Lutz-Christian Wolff, Wei Lun Professor of Law & Dean, CUHK LAW

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At the end of the day, law?

. . . . Emperors and kings

Are but obeyed in their several provinces,

Nor can they raise the wind or rend the clouds;

But his domain that exceeds in this

Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man.

A sound magician is a mighty god.

* * *

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,

And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,

That sometimes grew within this learned man.

Faustus is gone; regard his hellish fall,

Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise

Only to wonder at unlawful things,

Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits

To practise more than heavenly power permits.

Christopher Marlowe, "Dr. Faustus" (before 1593)

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