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Transnational Legal History / Law and Empire

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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The Call for Papers for the Sixth Asian Legal History Conference, on 6-7 August 2026, hosted by the Faculty of Law, Multimedia University, Melaka, Malaysia, is now open! Applications are due by 1 April 2026. Please find the call here: www.mmu.edu.my/fol/alhc2026/
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6th Asian Legal History Conference 2026 – FOL
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
In just under one week's time!
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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...
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CCTL Transnational Legal History Group Book Talk – ‘To Detain or To Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750-1840’ by Dr. Kiran Mehta (Online) - The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Register To Detain or to Punish is a history of imprisonment in the London metropolis between roughly 1750 and 1840. It challenges traditional ideas about who and what prisons were for and how they operated. Read more…
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
True, but not in the way he meant it (Peter Marsh, J Chamberlain, p 495)
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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...
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CCTL-GCLHSS Joint Book Talk- ‘Legal Histories of Hong Kong in Conversation: Extradition and Empire: Sovereignty and Subjecthood in Hong Kong and Penalties of Empire: Capital Trials in Colonial Hong Kong’ - The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Register This special event highlights two groundbreaking new books exploring the legal history of Hong Kong. Penalties of Empire, by Christopher Munn, explores how judges, juries and lawyers strove to deliver justice during the 150 Read more…
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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...
Picture shows a book cover for Dangers of Youth
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Oh
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
A good conference for photos!
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
From Porter, Critics of Empire (2nd ed, 2007)
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
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...
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Constitutional Studies @constlstudies.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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!
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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...
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Research Assistant
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This Wednesday!
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Frontiers before borders conference 2025 @frontiers2025.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
#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.
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This Friday!
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Too good, as always, by the clearest-eyed observer of the broad historical development of the United States newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Aziz Rana, Constitutional Collapse — Sidecar
Trump and the law.
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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...
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CCTL Transnational Legal History Group Book Talk - 'Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought' by Dr. Bruno Leipold (Online) - The Chinese University of...
Register In Citizen Marx, Dr. Bruno Leipold argues that, contrary to certain interpretive commonplaces, Karl Marx’s thinking was deeply informed by republicanism. Marx’s relation to republicanism chan...
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"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...
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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...
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CCTL Transnational Legal History Group Book Talk – 'Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914–1919' by Prof. Sakiko Kaiga - The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Register In this account of the origins of the idea of the League of Nations, Sakiko Kaiga casts new light on the pro-League of Nations movement in Britain in the era of the First World Read more…
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Deeply tragic
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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 ...
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
One MP cooking in the 1919 British Housing bill debates
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
CUHK Law hiring - Legal History among the expertise areas of particular interest this year cuhk.taleo.net/careersection/…
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
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...
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Call for Papers - The 5th Asian Legal History Conference - The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Doshisha University, with the support of the Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law’s Transnational Legal History Group at CUHK LAW and the Asian Legal History Association, is organizing the Fif...
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
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...
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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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...
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