CUHK LAW 9th Year Greater China Legal History Seminar Series 2023-24

The CUHK LAW 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. Following the success of seminars held in the past eight years, CUHK LAW proudly presents the 9th Year seminar series commencing in September 2023. Each seminar will be held from 12:30pm to 2pm. Topics to be discussed include: 


9th Year Greater China Legal History Seminar Series 2023-24

22 September 2023Pirates and the Hong Kong Admiralty Court of 1847-49
Speaker: Ms. Sasha Allison, Barrister at Law, Central Chambers, Hong Kong
6 October 2023Death Sentences in the Great Qing, 1744-1840
Speaker: Prof. Moulin Xiong, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
3 November 2023Contracts 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 2024Fengshui and Court Practice in Ming and Qing
Speaker: Prof. Ian M. Miller, History Department, St. John's University, New York
2 February 2024Chinese Customary Marriages and Concubinage in Hong Kong
Speaker: Prof. Steven Gallagher, Professional Consultant & Professor of Practice in Law, CUHK LAW
15 March 2024Shanghai 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


The first seminar of the new series, entitled "Pirates and the Hong Kong Admiralty Court of 1847-49", will be delivered by Ms. Sasha Allison, Barrister at Law, Central Chambers on 22 September 2023.

British vice-admiralty courts in the colonies were important imperial institutions created to extend the reach of English law into seas and oceans beyond the territorial limits of each colony. The first Admiralty Court in Hong Kong operated for only two years in the nineteenth century between 1847 and 1849, and faced many problems which were common amongst other colonial courts of the time, which impeded the territory's prosecution of piracy cases. The seminar will look at two specific cases to challenge the idea that the Admiralty Court was a useful tool of the empire and projected sovereignty of the colonial state.

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