2025 Second Graduate Symposium

This year the theme is “Legal Humanities in Global Asia,” and our keynote speaker is Professor Li Chen, a renowned scholar in the field of modern Chinese history. Professor Chen currently serves as Associate Professor of History and Global Asia Studies at the Department of History at the University of Toronto. His research and teaching interests include late Imperial and modern China (15th-20th centuries), Chinese law and society, Sino-Western relations, international law and history, and empire and postcolonial studies. His research has been featured in many of the top journals in the field, including Law & History Review, Late Imperial China, Journal of the History of International Law, and The Asian Journal of Law & Society. His first monograph, Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes, received the Association for Asian Studies’ 2018 Joseph Levenson Book Prize (for pre-1900 China) and Honorable Mention for the 2017 Peter Gonville Stein Book Award of the American Society for Legal History.