In just under one week's time!

Yeah sure he visited Constantinople/Palestine/Egypt/India/Singapore/China/Sumatra/the Straits Settlements and spoke fourteen languages (English/Dutch/German/Italian/French/Romanian/Polish/Russian/Slav(?)/Turkish/Greek/Arabic/Hindi/Malay) before being a private detective in S Africa, but who hasn't

Join us online on November 4, from 5:30-7:00 HKT, for a talk by Dr. Kiran Mehta on her fantastic new book! www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...

True, but not in the way he meant it (Peter Marsh, J Chamberlain, p 495)

Please join us for this fantastic dual book talk on 22 October at 6:30, in person and online! www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...

I'm honoured to be speaking to @petermcphee.bsky.social on Mon 6 Oct at 1pm AEDT about my book Dangers of Youth: Age, Criminality, and Juvenile Justice Reform in Third Republic France at an online event hosted by the George Rudé Society. Please register here: uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Call for Papers - Legal History in Asia and Beyond: Lessons from the Past for the Present 17-18 March (Hong Kong) & 23 March (Oxford) 2026 (participants can join in either location) Deadline 31 October 2025 www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...

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A good conference for photos!

From Porter, Critics of Empire (2nd ed, 2007)

Call for Papers: Evidence Matters Organized by the amazing folks at DISSECT and the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, in honor of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights Deadline 30 September 2025 dissect.ugent.be/events/inter...

We are thrilled to relaunch this year as an international, multilingual, open access journal, published by the Comparative Constitutions Project and the International Association of Constitutional Law. First reissue out this June! Read more at tinyurl.com/mtsuc85u and follow to get future issues!

I'm recruiting a research assistant for my project “The Origins of Development: Anti-Colonial Resistance, Social Struggles and Labor Reform in the Interwar British Empire.” Work with me in Hong Kong! cuhk.taleo.net/careersectio...

This Wednesday!

#CallforPapers for upcoming conference @tlrhub.bsky.social in Dublin in July 2025. Of interest to anyone studying #frontiers #boundaries and #Borders in disciplines such as geography, history, political science, anthropology, sociology and law. #CfP deadline 31 March 2025.

This Friday!

Too good, as always, by the clearest-eyed observer of the broad historical development of the United States newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Very excited to welcome Prof. @brunoleipold.com for a talk on his fantastic book on April 2 - online so join us from wherever you are! www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...

"It is often asserted that human rights discourse and practice principally originated following the Second World War, or as late as the 1970s, and that human rights claims are inherently Western and liberal. None of these assertions are true." www.cardozociclr.com/_files/ugd/b...

Very excited to host Professor Kaiga in two weeks time! Join us online or in person if you're in Hong Kong www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...

Deeply tragic

Thank goodness we didn't end up adopting a system in which full private ownership helped lead to speculation and increasing injustice in land distribution

Who ushered in the modern world? That's right, leading Quaker anti-slavery chocolate magnates who made their fortunes through colonial slave labor. In this paper I will ...

One MP cooking in the 1919 British Housing bill debates

CUHK Law hiring - Legal History among the expertise areas of particular interest this year cuhk.taleo.net/careersection/…

The call for papers for the 5th Asian Legal History Conference, hosted by Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, is now out - hope to see many there! www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...

The advance copy of my article on the drafting of the 1930 Forced Labour Convention is out! The article lays out how the approach to coercive labor that has come down to us was sharply limited by the colonial circumstances of its framing. law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/asset...

Excited to host Alastair McClure to speak about his new book, Trials of Sovereignty, in person this coming Thursday, 21 November at 5:00 pm here in HK! www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...