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

True, but not in the way he meant it (Peter Marsh, J Chamberlain, p 495)

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...

Oh

A good conference for photos!

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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"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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Deeply tragic

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

One MP cooking in the 1919 British Housing bill debates

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...