Thomas Jefferson, Carsun Chang and A Lost Era of U.S.-China Constitutional Engagement

East Asian Legal Studies Talk

Jedidiah Kroncke
Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong

Dr. Jedidiah Kroncke is an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, where he teaches trust law and the law of cooperative enterprises. His research centers on international legal history and the comparative study of alternative labor and property institutions. His first book, The Futility of Law and Development: China and the Dangers of Exporting American Law (Oxford University Press, 2016), explores the role of U.S.-China relations in the formation of modern American legal internationalism and the decline of American legal comparativism. Other publications have addressed law and development, authoritarian law and legal ethics, the history of international law, and comparative law and political economy. He received a B.A. from the University of California Berkeley, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from UC Berkeley, and then served as the HLS Berger-Howe Legal History Fellow, NYU Golieb Fellow in Legal History, and Ruebhausen Fellow in Law at Yale Law.

Boxed lunch will be provided.

Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies.