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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 10d

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

Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · 21d

Please join us for this fantastic dual book talk on 22 October at 6:30, in person and online!

www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...

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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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 23d

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...

Picture shows a book cover for Dangers of Youth

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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Sep 1

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...

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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Aug 23

Oh

Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Aug 20

A good conference for photos!

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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Aug 20

From Porter, Critics of Empire (2nd ed, 2007)

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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Jul 20

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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Constitutional Studies @constlstudies.bsky.social · Jun 16

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!

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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Apr 11

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

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Mar 31

This Wednesday!

Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Mar 21

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...

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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Frontiers before borders conference 2025 @frontiers2025.bsky.social · Dec 18

#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.

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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Mar 25

This Friday!

Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Mar 14

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...

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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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Mar 22

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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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Mar 21

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...

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

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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Mar 18

"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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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Mar 15

Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Mar 14

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...

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

Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Mar 14

Guess the year

Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Mar 14

From Robert Beevers, The Garden City Utopia: A Critical Biography of Ebenezer Howard (1988)

Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Mar 14

Deeply tragic

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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Mar 12

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

Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Mar 10

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