Chris
@chrismroberts.bsky.social
Transnational Legal History / Law and Empire
In just under one week's time!
October 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
In just under one week's time!
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
October 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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
Join us online on November 4, from 5:30-7:00 HKT, for a talk by Dr. Kiran Mehta on her fantastic new book!
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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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October 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Join us online on November 4, from 5:30-7:00 HKT, for a talk by Dr. Kiran Mehta on her fantastic new book!
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True, but not in the way he meant it (Peter Marsh, J Chamberlain, p 495)
September 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
True, but not in the way he meant it (Peter Marsh, J Chamberlain, p 495)
Please join us for this fantastic dual book talk on 22 October at 6:30, in person and online!
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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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September 17, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Please join us for this fantastic dual book talk on 22 October at 6:30, in person and online!
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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...
September 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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...
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
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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...
September 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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
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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...
A good conference for photos!
August 20, 2025 at 4:50 AM
A good conference for photos!
From Porter, Critics of Empire (2nd ed, 2007)
August 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
From Porter, Critics of Empire (2nd ed, 2007)
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
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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...
July 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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...
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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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!
First reissue out this June! Read more at tinyurl.com/mtsuc85u and follow to get future issues!
June 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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!
First reissue out this June! Read more at tinyurl.com/mtsuc85u and follow to get future issues!
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!
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Research Assistant
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April 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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!
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This Wednesday!
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!
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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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March 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
This Wednesday!
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#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.
December 18, 2024 at 9:48 AM
#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.
This Friday!
Very excited to host Professor Kaiga in two weeks time! Join us online or in person if you're in Hong Kong
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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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March 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This Friday!
Too good, as always, by the clearest-eyed observer of the broad historical development of the United States
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Aziz Rana, Constitutional Collapse — Sidecar
Trump and the law.
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March 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Too good, as always, by the clearest-eyed observer of the broad historical development of the United States
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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...
www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...
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...
www.law.cuhk.edu.hk
March 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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...
www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...
"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."
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March 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
"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."
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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...
www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...
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…
www.law.cuhk.edu.hk
March 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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...
www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...
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
March 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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