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We are happy to share news about our members' academic events such as conferences, workshops, or new publications. Please contact us if you are a current ISCLH member and want to share such news.
ISCLH First Biennial Book Prize (2022) 中国法律与历史国际学会2022年首届(双年)最佳著作奖揭晓
2022 Awards On behalf of the Book Prize committee of ISCLH, we are happy to announce the results of our inaugural book prize...
Mar 17, 2023
ISCLH member Fei-Hsien Wang won the ASLH Peter Gonville Stein Book Award for 2020
ISCLH is pleased to announce member Fei-Hsien Wang was awarded the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award by the American Society for Legal...
Mar 16, 2023
Li Chen's Book Won the AAS's 2018 Joseph Levenson Prize in China Studies.
Professor Li Chen, ISCLH founding president and current director, was awarded the prestigious Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize for...
Mar 15, 2023
Matthew H. Sommer Won the 2017 Peter Stein Book Prize of the American Society for Legal History.
Professor Matthew Sommer, a ISCLH founding member and director, won the American Society for Legal History's 2017 Peter Stein Book Prize...
Mar 15, 2023
Taisu Zhang's book won the 2018 SSHA Presidents Book Award
Professor Taisu Zhang, a founding member and former president of ISCLH, won the 2018 SSHA Presidents Book Award for his recently...
Mar 15, 2023
New Publication: Zhao Jing 赵晶, 《Tiansheng ling》yu Tang Song fazhi kaolun 《天圣令》与唐宋法制考论
《Tiansheng ling》yu Tang Song fazhi kaolun 《天圣令》与唐宋法制考论 [A study of “Ordinances of the Tiansheng reign period” and the legal systems of...
Mar 14, 2023
New Publication: Sun Joo Kim and Jungwon Kim
“Wrongful Deaths: Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth-Century Korea” Wrongful Deaths: Selected Inquest Records from...
Mar 14, 2023
New Publication: Margaret Kuo
"Intolerable Cruelty: Marriage, Law, and Society in Early Twentieth-Century China" Intolerable Cruelty: Marriage, Law, and Society in...
Mar 14, 2023
New Publication: Zhongguo gudai falü wenxian yanjiu 中国古代法律文献研究
A new issue of Zhongguo gudai falü wenxian yanjiu 中国古代法律文献研究 has just been published by Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe 社会科学文献出版社...
Mar 14, 2023
New publication: “Chinese Law: Knowledge, Practice, and Transformation, 1530s-1950s” (2015)
A new book on late imperial and modern Chinese law and history, edited by Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin, and contributed by a dozen ISCLH...
Mar 14, 2023
New publication: “The Logic of Lies: False Accusation and Legal Culture in Late Qing Sichuan”
“The Logic of Lies: False Accusation and Legal Culture in Late Qing Sichuan” Quinn Javers Late Imperial China, Volume 35, Number 2,...
Mar 14, 2023
New Book: Barry Hawk, Law and Commerce in Pre-Industrial Societies (Brill 2015)
About This Book Well before states, literacy, or legal systems, there were commerce and trade, which are found in all societies...
Mar 14, 2023
New Book: Anthony J. Barbieri-Low and Robin D.S. Yates
"Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China" Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China (2 vols): A Study with Critical Edition...
Mar 14, 2023
New Book: Zhao Ma, Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937–1949
Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937–1949 Zhao Ma, Washington University in St. Louis Harvard East...
Mar 14, 2023
New Book: Hu Xiangyu, Qingdai falü de changguihua: Zuqun yu dengji 清代法律的常规化: 族群与等级
Qingdai falü de changguihua: Zuqun yu dengji 清代法律的常规化: 族群与等级 [The Normalization of the Law in the Qing Dynasty: Ethnicity and Status] Hu...
Mar 14, 2023
Recent Publication: Roy L. Sturgeon, “China’s Homegrown Free-Speech Tradition”
“China’s Homegrown Free-Speech Tradition: Imperial Past and Modern Present. And Post-Modern Future?” Roy L. Sturgeon, Tulane University...
Mar 14, 2023
Recent Publication: Xiaoqun Xu, “The Chinese Judiciary under the Japanese Occupation”
“The Chinese Judiciary under the Japanese Occupation: Criminal and Civil Justice in Jiangsu, 1938-1945” Xiaoqun Xu, Christopher Newport...
Mar 14, 2023
Copy of New Publications: Macabe Keliher
“Recidivist, Multiple and Gang Thefts: The Transformation of the Law of Theft in Late Qing China.” Geoffrey MacCormack, University of...
Mar 14, 2023
New Book: Matthew S. Erie, China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law
China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law Matthew S. Erie, University of Oxford Cambridge University Press, 2016 Publisher’s...
Mar 14, 2023
New Book: Marie Seong-Hak Kim ed. The Spirit of Korean Law: Korean Legal History in Context
The Spirit of Korean Law: Korean Legal History in Context Edited by Marie Seong-Hak Kim Brill, 2016 Publisher’s description: This is the...
Mar 14, 2023
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