Law, Justice, and Empire in Comparative Perspective Series

This series of lectures and roundtables attempts to explore the power of law and the concept of justice in early empires. Whereas the rule of law serves as the basic principle of modern political thought and the spirit of democracy, the mature legal empires in early China fostered a prominent and enduring intellectual tradition that abominated the law, a tradition that still has its legacy in Chinese society of modern day. This lecture series will probe this fundamental difference between the East and the West as well as its modern legacy. Aiming to connect studies of early Chinese empires with research of other civilizations, this series plans to bring together scholars from Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Notre Dame, Peking University and Tsinghua University. 

The series is sponsored by the Liu Institute for Asian and Asia Studies, Department of History, Notre Dame International, and Hong Kong Baptist University Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology.

Speaker:

Karen L. Turner
Distinguished Professor of Humanities and History, emerita, College of the Holy Cross;
Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School

Peter F. Bang
Associate Professor, SAXO-Institute - Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History, the University of Copenhagen

Registration: https://notredame.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvfu6urjkrH9N6gLgVxLbZdC97X_KITmaF 

Reading List: https://asia.nd.edu/assets/424586/rule_of_law_reading_list.pdf