LECTURE SERIES: Histories of International Law: Chinese and Global Perspectives, Wuhan University (Zoom, December 2022 - June 2023)

We have learnt of a lecture series organised by the Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law, City University of Hong Kong, in partnership with Wudan University School of Law and Fudan University School of Law (organizing committee: Professors Ignacio de la Rasilla, Jiangyu Wang and Congyan Cai).

Two lecture series will take place simultaneously from December 2022 to June 2023:

1. Distinguished Lectures in the History of International Law
• February 2023: Prof. Martti Koskenniemi
• March 2023: Prof. David Armitage
• April 2023: Prof. Jose Maria Beneyto
• May 2023: Prof. Randall Lesaffer
2. Histories of International Law: Chinese and Global Perspectives
• 16 December 2022: China and the Turn to the National: Peripheral and Semi-Peripheral Histories of International Law
• Prof. Ignacio de la Rasilla, Wuhan University
• Discussant: Prof. Chen Li, Fudan University
• 13 January 2023: In the Garden of Gethsemene: US-Sino Relations in the History of International Law during the Republican Period
• Prof. Christopher Rossi, UiT The Arctic University of Hong Kong
• Discussant: Prof. Ryan Mitchell, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 17 February 2023: Historicism and Chinese Translations of International Law in Late Qing China
• Prof. Qu Wensheng & Mr. Wan Li, East China University of Political Science and Law
• Discussant: Prof. Inge van Hulle, KU Leuven
• 17 March 2023: The Legacy of Concessions
• Prof. Frederic Megret, McGill University & Dr. Wanshu Cong, Hong Kong University
• Discussant: Prof. Matthias Vanhullebusch, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• 14 April 2023: China and the 'Third World' in International Law - On Bandung and Beyond
• Assist. Prof. Maria Adele Carrai, New York University Shanghai
• Discussant: Dr John Haskell, Senior Lecturer, Manchester University
• 19 May 2023: The Opening Up and Reform Policy and China's Re-engagement with the International Legal Order
• Prof. Jacques deLisle, University of Pennsylvania
• Discussant: tbc
• 16 June 2023: Revolution and the Introduction of Marxist theory of International Law to China
• Prof. Congyan Cai, Fudan University & Dr Jie Liu, Sun Yat-Sen University
• Discussant: Prof. Björn Ahl, University of Cologne

For more information, see the program below or contact Prof. Ignacio de la Rasilla. Register on the website of the City University of Hong Kong.