With the generous support of City University of Hong Kong, the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong is organising The Conference on Towards a Chinese Civil Code: Historical and Comparative Perspective on 22-23 October 2010. The conference’s purpose is twofold. First, in an age of globalisation, comparative law is ubiquitous. China is undertaking a titanic task to make its Civil Code. The Chinese legal community is in a process of learning or borrowing legislative ideas from other experienced jurisdictions. It is hoped that with this conference, the historical and comparative approaches can shed some light on this. Second, this conference is dedicated to commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the first western-influenced and civil-law-oriented Civil Code in China, Da Qing Min Lü Cao An of 1911. International legal scholars and academics from the perspectives of legal history, comparative law, and private law from Europe, US, UK, South Africa, mainland China and elsewhere in Asia are expected to present papers at the Conference. The Conference aims to further and contribute to the understanding on the Chinese civil law tradition from comparative and historical perspective. Four sub-themes including contract law, property law, civil procedure and tort law will be addressed at the conference. Each theme would be touched upon by both Chinese and International scholars.
The major outcome of this Conference would be to provide a platform for the international leading experts to share their views and expertise relating to civil law tradition in Chinese Private Law. Subject to peer review, the selected papers are aimed to publish as an edited book by a known academic publisher under the auspice of the Centre of Chinese and Comparative Law, City University of Hong Kong.
| Organisers: |
Dr Lin Feng, Director of The Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law, City University of Hong Kong |
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Dr Chen Lei, Assistant Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong |
| Scientific Co-organiser: |
Prof. dr. C.H. (Remco) van Rhee, Chair of European Legal History and Comparative Civil Procedure, Maastricht University Faculty of Law, Research School Ius Commune |
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