Council on East Asian Studies ISCLH Yale Workshop: “Chinese Legal History in Comparative Context: Early China-Europe Legal Comparisons”

Event time: 
Tuesday, December 11, 2018 - 1:15pm
Location: 
Henry R. Luce Hall, Room 203 See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The Council on East Asian Studies ISCLH Yale Workshop presents: 

A Symposium: “Chinese Legal History in Comparative Context:  Early China-Europe Legal Comparisons”.

Valerie Hansen (Chair)

Zhiqiang Wang (Commentator)

Jesse Watson, University of California, Berkeley:  “The Magistrates Doubtful Cases: Kinship and the Law in Early Imperial China (221 BCE-220 CE)”.

Karen Turner, College of the Holy Cross:  “Punishments in the Early Chinese and Roman Empires: Beyond Myth”.

Robin Yates, McGill University:  “Law in the Creation of the Early Chinese and Roman Empires: A Comparative Perspective”.

 

Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
General Public