American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Property Law and Power in Imperial Borderlands,” November 6, 2021 @ 4:15 – 5:45 pm

4:15 PM – 5:45 PM

Property Law and Power in Imperial Borderlands (Acadian)

Chair: Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School (taisu.zhang@yale.edu), Commentator: Fahad Bishara, University of Virginia (bishara@virginia.edu)

Rui Hua, Harvard University (ruihua@fas.harvard.edu)
Mr. Pan Versus the Tsar: How a Manchurian Peasant Made (up) Asian International Law, 1908-1921

George Remisovsky, Yale University (george.remisovsky@yale.edu)
Preserving Customs or Protecting Cultivators? Land Tenure and Local Order in Colonial Taiwan, 1895- 1930

Hengameh Ziai, Yale University (hengameh.ziai@yale.edu)
Writing as Crisis: Debt, Law, and Commerce in Ottoman Sudan, 1821-1881

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