American Society for Legal History Pre-Conference Workshop

If you wish to attend, please RSVP by November *14* by emailing Ms. Emma Johnson at [email protected].

Graduate Student Panel, 11 am to 1 pm

Chair: Tahirih Lee (FSU)

Yue Jiang (Stanford), Gender, Property, and Lineage in Mid-Qing: Property Disputes Between Women and Lineages
Commentator: Michael Szonyi (Harvard)

Rui Hua (Harvard), Imperial Wars in A Magistrate’s Court: Translingual Legal Literacy and the Everyday Politics of Territorial Land Laws in Manchuria, 1900-1931
Commentator: Sakura Christmas (Bowdoin)

Xinyu Huang (Yale), The Censorial Impeachments under Qianlong and Jiaqing Reign (1736-1820)
Commentator: Thomas Buoye (Tulsa)

Jingjian Wu (Yale), W.A.P. Martin, Naturalism and The Translation of International Law in Late Qing China
Commentator: William Alford (Harvard)

Lunch Break, 1 to 2 pm

Legal and Intellectual Constructs of Empire, 2 to 3:30

Chair: Phillip Thai (Northeastern)

Commentator: Fei-Hsien Wang (Indiana)

Colin Jones (Columbia), Living Law, Legal Consciousness, and the Afterlives of Empire: The Origins and Legacy of the North China Rural Customs Survey (1941-1944)

Tristan Brown (MIT), Breaking the Land, Breaking the Law: Fengshui and the End of Imperial China

Peter Thilly (Univ. of Mississippi), Consular Jurisdiction and the Pioneers of Flexible Citizenship

Coffee Break, 3:30 to 4 pm

Laying Down and Crossing Borders, 4 to 6 pm

Chair: Par Cassel (Michigan)

Commentator: Taisu Zhang (Yale)

Geng Tian (Peking University), The Boundary Works in the Qing’s Legal Analogies between ‘Violent’ Social Groups, 1750-1850

Yonglin Jiang (Bryn Mawr), The Contested Order: Central-Local Legal Dynamics on the Borderlands of the Ming Empire

Jenny Huangfu (Skidmore), The Last Refuge of the Scoundrel: Transnational Fugitives and the Spaces of Law in Late Qing China, 1860s-1900s

Larissa Pitts (Quinnipiac), The Abortive Forest Law of 1914: Russian Timber Merchants, Chinese ‘Traitors,’ and the Collapse of Modern Chinese Environmental Law

East Asian Legal Studies. Co-sponsored by the American Society for Legal History, the International Society for Chinese Law and History, and Yale Law School.