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The Peking University School of Transnational Law's Law and Humanities Seminar Series ("LHSS") was launched in 2020 by Professor Norman Ho. LHSS aims to provide a venue and forum for discussion of and engagement with various topics in the law and humanities, broadly defined, including (but not limited to) law and literature, law and history, law and philosophy, and law and the arts, across all geographical regions, cultures, and traditions. All LHSS seminars are free and open to all. Each seminar is conducted in English and is usually a total of 60 minutes in length, consisting of a presentation/lecture (about 35-40 minutes) by an invited speaker who is an expert in his/her field, followed by open questions & answers/discussion (about 20-25 minutes). LHSS also aims to enhance the profile and visibility of law and humanities as a discipline in China and to encourage local, national, and indeed international exchange and conversations in the law and humanities field among scholars, academics, lawyers, students, and members of the general public and community.
For more information about LHSS or if you have any questions, feel free to contact the organizer Professor Norman Ho.
*please stay tuned for upcoming seminars, which will be posted here.
Andrea L. Baldini 白龙, Changjiang Chair Professor, School of Arts, Peking University
Challenging Copyright: The Ethical Implications for Street Art and Non-Mainstream Practices
November 22, 2024
Nohyoung Park, Professor Emeritus, Korea University Law School
The Developments of International Rules on Cyber: Focusing on the United Nations
November 9, 2024
Holger Spamann, Lawrence R. Grove Professor of Law, Havard Law School
Common v. Civil Law: "The Emperor Has No Clothes"
June 5, 2024
Keechang Kim, Professor of Law, Korea University Law School
Li (禮), law and Confucius
December 12, 2023
Prof. Xingzhong Yu (於兴中), Chair Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Macau
Normative Dualism: One Way to Understand Confucian Legal Philosophy
November 14, 2023
Recording on Bilibili
Recording on Youtube
Prof. Rowan Dorin, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University
When Law Leaves the Lawbooks: Legal Diffusion and Normative Instability in Premodern Europe
September 21, 2023
Prof. James Penner, Kwa Geok Choo Professor of Property Law,National University of Singapore
Are Duties Burdens?
Prof. Andrew Halpin, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Civilian and Common-Law Understandings of Law as a System of Norms
June 7, 2023
Prof. Ryan Martínez Mitchell, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Insights from Diplomatic Archival Research on China’s Role in International Legal History: Book Talk–Recentering the World: China and the Transformation of International Law
May 24, 2023
Prof. Stuart M. McManus, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Chinese University of Hong Kong
‘Doing’ Legal History: A Very Practical Guide
April 3, 2023
Prof. Xiaobo Zhai, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Macau (China)
A Critique of Raz's New Theory of Legality
March 23, 2023
Prof. Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Leibniz University Hannover & Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (Germany)
"Decentering the History of Property: Law and Land in the Iberian World (1510-1850)”
November 29, 2022
Prof. Michael W. Dowdle, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
"Transnational Law: A Framework for Analysis"
November 1, 2022
Recording on Bilibili
Recording on Youtube
Prof. Dmitry Poldnikov, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russia)
"In Search of the Way Between East and West: Understanding Russian Law Through the 'Grammar' of Legal Traditions"
September 26, 2022
Recording on Bilibili
Recording on Youtube
Dr. Glenn R. Butterton, MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience (USA)
"Common Law, Canon Law, and the English Reformation"
June 23, 2022
Prof. Karen Tani, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
"Liberalism's Last Rights: Disability Inclusion and the US Anti-Welfare State"
May 31, 2022
Prof. Norman Ho, Peking University School of Transnational Law (China)
"Thinking About Law Through Music"
September 16, 2021
Recording on Bilibili
Recording on Youtube
Dr. Hrafn Asgeirsson, University of Surrey (UK)
"Is Theorizing about the Nature of Law Practically Significant?"
May 27, 2021
Prof. Qiaomei Tang, Grinnell College (USA)
"Divorce in Early Medieval China (1st to 6th Century CE)"
December 21, 2020
Recording on Bilibili
Recording onYoutube