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The Centre for Chinese Law and Policy Seminar (CCLP)

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9 April 2026 - 9 April 2026

3:00PM - 4:30PM

Hybrid event: Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre, Palatine Centre (PCL048). Online via Teams.

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Confucian Law

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Event Poster: Confucian Law: The Centre for Chinese Law and Policy Seminar (CCLP)

This talk is based on a book project entitled Confucian Law (under contract with Oxford University Press) which seeks to provide a comparative study of Confucian law and its legacy in four East Asian jurisdictions, namely China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. The book conceptualizes Confucian law as legal rules and institutions underpinned by Confucian moral principles. It explores (1) Confucian moral principles foundational to East Asian traditional law; (2) dynastic legal rules and institutions embodying these principles in five areas namely constitutional law, administrative law, criminal law, family law, and international law; (3) Confucian legal legacy in these areas of East Asian modern law. Integrating comparative law with Confucian philosophy, this book seeks to demonstrate that Confucian law is an important part of traditional East Asian law, and its legacy remains strong in modern East Asian law.

Speaker Bio

Ngoc Son Bui is Professor of Asian Laws at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford. He is a graduate of Vietnam National University-Hanoi (LLB; LLM) and The University of Hong Kong (PhD). He was previously an Assistant Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, and a research fellow at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies of the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. He has also held visiting positions at Chulalongkorn, Harvard, Melbourne, Nagoya, SMU, Thammasat, and Tsinghua Law Schools. 
He works on comparative & constitutional law in Asia with a focus on the socialist and Confucian culture-influenced jurisdictions. He is the author of Legal Reform in the Contemporary Socialist World (Oxford University Press 2024), Constitutional Change in the Contemporary Socialist World (Oxford University Press 2020), and Confucian Constitutionalism in East Asia (Routledge 2016). He is writing a new book, Confucian Law, for Oxford University Press. He is co-editing four volumes on Asian Comparative Constitutional Law for Hart Publishing. He serves in the editorial board of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law and in the advisory board of the Indian Law Review.

Chaired by:

Dr. Ge Chen, Associate Professor, Durham Law School

Attendance:

This event will be held in hybrid format.
You are warmly invited to join us in person in the Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre, Palatine Centre (PCL048).

If you are unable to attend in person, you may join online via the following link: Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams 

(Meeting ID: 393 089 118 556 3; Passcode: bA3du7f4)

 

 

 

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