Comparative & Global Legal Studies/History
This group is for scholars interested in comparative legal studies or transnational/international or global legal history, including the legal history of empire and colonialism.
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@lchen2024.bsky.social
@yunliyuetianxia.bsky.social
Started in 2020, this has become a highly-respected multimedia platform for sharing the best & newest scholarship on China, having publicized 200 issues about academic talks, roundtables, articles, and new book announcements http://t.cn/A6mLJNrd
@yuanyiz.bsky.social
Assistant professor of international relations and international law | sometime political advisor | All views mine alone | find me on Twitter at @yuanyi_z
@shaochenl.bsky.social
Exploring the intersections of Tech, Law, and Chinese Politics. Sharing thoughts on innovation, regulations, and global shifts. LAW@WashU MBA@Rice
@torkrever.bsky.social
Writer and legal academic. International law, critical and Marxist legal theory.
@drmitchtravis.bsky.social
Associate Professor. Housed in @lsjleeds.bsky.social at University of Leeds. Former Socio-Legal Studies Association trustee. Intersex Justice and Jurisprudential Futures. All views my own (he/him)
@mattmatravers.bsky.social
Legal/political philosopher: punishment, criminal law theory, responsibility. Professor of Law & Director of the Morrell Centre, University of York.
@kostiagorobets.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen. Jurisprudence, international law, books. Working on a project about Russia’s alternative international law.
@paolosandro.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Public Law and Legal Theory @lawatleeds.bsky.social, author of 'The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law' (Hart 2022), Open Access at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4562656#
@stephenesachs.bsky.social
Antonin Scalia Professor of Law, Harvard Law School stevesachs.com
@scottjshapiro.bsky.social
Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. Content creator. Author, “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing"
@glexareen.bsky.social
Associate Professor (Law), CUHK (Hong Kong); Academic Associate, 23ES Chambers (UK); Trustee, SLSA (international law, philosophy, culture, climate change & sea-level rise). Book 1: https://tinyurl.com/bdfa86ve Book 2: https://tinyurl.com/yc4nmrnm
@andreimamolea.bsky.social
Historian of international law and politics | asst prof at BU https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/andrei-mamolea/
@cpogies.bsky.social
Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) & Maritime Security | Managing Editor @JE_SIRIUS | Now @swud_org · formerly @mpilhlt.bsky.social | Member @voelkerrechtsblog.org | https://www.swud.org/en/swud/wer-bewegt-die-swud/mitarbeitende/profil-von-christian-pogies/
@edge-law.bsky.social
Law Professor, Oxford Brookes University. Specialises in Manx law, small jurisdictions, and the interaction of religion and law. Blogs as @edge_law on wordpress.
@renskejanssen.bsky.social
Law, Religion & Power in the Ancient World | Tacitus | Classics and Ancient History | Editor-in-chief of Dutch-language series 'Wegen naar Rome' (Roads to Rome) on Antiquity in Popular Culture | Leiden (NL) | She/her | Posts in Dutch and English
@drjenniferaston.bsky.social
Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC. York and Newcastle.
@martinodonoghue.bsky.social
Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt. Researching Ireland and India. Author - The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 https://shorturl.at/BNQNP Views own
@kmtani.bsky.social
Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor in History & Law @Penn. Co-runs the Legal History Blog. Research focuses on modern U.S. history, including poverty, disability, rights, federalism, agencies, the state, LPE.
@ntinatzouvala.bsky.social
International law, historical materialism, Free Palestine 🇵🇸
@lloydesq.bsky.social
Prof. of Law, Wake Forest. Law & Humanities including Semiotics, Hermeneutics, Rhetoric, Emotion, Virtue, & Legal Education Reform. Lampoon Langdell. Also commercial transactions & verse & translation. https://haroldanthonylloyd.blogspot.com
@simon8.bsky.social
Law & Literature, legal history, criminal law, IP, 18c/19C British literature || U of Toronto Law & English || OUP Law & Lit series http://tinyurl.com/y7fhvh36 || Oxford Hbk of Law & Humanities http://tinyurl.com/y95rdzl3 || SSRN https://tinyurl.com/SSRNss
@lpcprof.bsky.social
Law and humanities/legal history/media and entertainment law/freedom of speech/privacy law/EU/AI. The Media Method '19; Law and Magic '10. Law and Magic II underway. Personal account.
@marxologist.bsky.social
history & intellectual history | legal history & theory | political & economic thought | marx recently completed a Masters thesis on Marx's legal education at UNSW, now formulating a PhD project on Soviet jurisprudence
@willpooley.bsky.social
historian of witchcraft, folklore, tarot, france, 18-20th c creative histories ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic assoc. ed. @FrenchHistory aspiring acronymancer
@crosehistorian.bsky.social
early modernist | 16th and 17thC Italy | HGIS | history of violence and justice | assoc prof @ BrockU | loud Canadian
@mpbreen21.bsky.social
Historian of early modern French law & society at Reed College. Prattles on about history, dogs, politics, soccer, & hoops. H-France Editor-in-Chief (www.h-france.net)
@amyhelenbell.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Britain: WW2, murder, forensics, female criminals. Latest book- Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Wartime London (Yale, 2024). Likes cakes.
@filomenarotiroti.bsky.social
Députée de #JeanneManceViger Whip en chef / Porte-parole du @liberalquebec pour la Métropole 🏙️ + Développement économique régional 🏞️⚜️ #PolQc #AssNat
@brionyneilson.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-century France—incarceration of juveniles, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia). Book out soon "Dangers of Youth" www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php. Based in Sydney, Australia
@sianhibbert.bsky.social
(Almost finished) History PhD at Uni of York - early modern France, interpersonal violence, disputes and enmities, gender, social relations, urban and rural communities.
@tombhamilton.bsky.social
Historian of early modern France and Europe; crime, justice, gender, Wars of Religion; co-editor of French History; structuralish 📖📚 ⚖️🌳🏃🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺
@feihsienwang.bsky.social
Historian of modern China and Taiwan @ IUBloomington | knowledge making, historical imagination, home cooking,law & economic life
@elisewang.bsky.social
medievalist. law & literature (old) | conspiracy theories (old and new) | taiwan (new and yet to be) carnegie fellow ‘24-‘26 The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature https://shorturl.at/dLTAv
@lizpappkamali.bsky.social
Professor at Harvard Law. Author of Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England. English Legal History. Criminal Law. Greenhorn gardener.
@lflannigan17.bsky.social
Historian of law, society, and politics in medieval and Tudor England at St John's College, Oxford | Alumna of the universities of York and Cambridge | Research and publications -> https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/laura-flannigan/
@saragwynbeam.bsky.social
Early modern historian. Criminal justice history, satire on stage, torture, gender and sexuality. The Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva (2021); Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France (2007).
@katefarrantshaw.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, PhD - researching EU Rule of Law, CJEU, EU/public law, legal/medieval/celtic history. Latest book https://brill.com/display/title/61820
@booksoflaw.bsky.social
Early #medieval -ist, focusing on the #history of #law and #lawbooks from the 6th-13th centuries. Postdoc historian on the #PresentDead project, and a #ludonarratologist studying medieval-set TTRPGs & creating one based on the #Lombard laws: #LangobardRPG
@mattsteilen.bsky.social
Law professor. Legal history, constitutional law. PhD in philosophy. Forthcoming book on the origins of the English parliament, Routledge.
@estherlcuenca.bsky.social
Writer. Historian. (Untenured) Chair of your department. Author of 'The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England' (Oxford University Press, 2025).
@mappermundi.bsky.social
Editor, Medievalist, Legal Historian, Train Enthusiast, Photographer | 🏳️🌈 | they/them | https://mappermundi.org/ | https://www.instagram.com/kerrigorsnaps/ | https://kerrigorsnaps.darkroom.com/
@gowder.io
Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter. Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
@waligore.bsky.social
Political theory professor. Interests: Indigenous sovereignty, global justice, Kant & modern political theory, reparations, climate justice. Reposts & links to stories =/= endorsements. Views not employer's. He/him.
@roellinghoff.bsky.social
Assistant professor of Japanese Studies at HKU. I write about settler colonialism, empire, Indigenous sovereignty in Hokkaido and the transpacific. PhD from UToronto. Postdoc at UTokyo. Views mine, like/repost ≠ endorsement.
@drnbaker.bsky.social
Historian, feminist, UU. Currently finishing a book on the long conservative women's movement in 20th-c. America. My other book project is on feminist legal reformers in 20th-c. Texas, particularly at mid-century.
@kylekirkup.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. Constitutional law, criminal law, gender and sexuality law.
@daraghjgrant.bsky.social
UChicago. Early American history; colonialism and empire; legal history; history of political thought. https://www.daraghjgrant.com
@anyabernstein.bsky.social
Law prof née anthropologist. Legal language, bureaucratic culture, democratic legitimation. 安雅仁 / Анька
@herakleitosmd.bsky.social
Legal historian @vubcore.bsky.social Law, politics, diplomatic history. RT ≠ endorse. https://vubcore.blogspot.com/p/frederik-dhondt.html
@camilavergara.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, University of Essex Plebeian philosophy & praxis, deliberative democracy, intellectual history, critical legal studies, political economy. Publications: https://camilavergara.academia.edu/
@norayitongqiu.bsky.social
Permanent Lecturer in Modern East Asia History at UCL; Glocobank Associate Faculty at University of Oxford
@richardkay80.bsky.social
Wallace Stevens Professor Emeritus, UConn Law. Constitutional Law; Comparative Law; Legal History. Boston resident, Red Sox, Celtics fan. (NOT the Daily Mail reporter.) https://law.uconn.edu/person/richard-s-kay
@greenlawchina.bsky.social
Professor of Law @ UCLA School of Law; faculty co-director, Emmett Inst on Climate Change & the Environment; Walter & Shirley Wang Chair in US-China Relations; Chinese law & politics. alexwang.org
@justcode.bsky.social
Writer I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture Prof. HSTM/STS, U. of MN. Co-edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk. srs. Research: Social Study of HCI, AI, Privacy, Security, Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
@isclh.bsky.social
The official account of a U.S.-based non-profit professional association for international scholars of Chinese law and history, broadly defined, with dues-paying members from leading research institutions worldwide. https://www.chineselawandhistory.com
@zhangtaisu.bsky.social
Comparative historian, legal theorist, Chinese law and politics observer @Yale.
@michaelszonyi.bsky.social
宋怡明 Frank Wen-hsiung Wu Prof. of Chinese History; former Director, @FairbankCenter for Chinese Studies, Harvard Univ.; #PIPFellow @NCUSCR; Chair @WCFIA_Canada; mostly tweeting @MichaelSzonyi
@manjurambi.bsky.social
A historian of early modern Asia, law, and borderlands at Rice University (https://profiles.rice.edu/faculty/jaymin-kim-08); President of the Manchu Studies Group (https://www.manchustudiesgroup.org/); member of Korea-Vietnam Working Group
@donalcoffey.bsky.social
Constitutional law, legal history. Assistant Prof in Maynooth University, Ireland.
@husajaakko.bsky.social
Professor. Comparative law/legal languages/legal history/constitutional studies/law & globalisation. Academic "humour". Posts indicate satire, perplexity or whatever. Opinions are my own, unfortunately. https://ssrn.com/author=933550
@lawandhistrev.bsky.social
Social media content for Law & History Review and LHR's digital imprint, The Docket. Feed curated by @gauthamrao. For inquiries about The Docket, email at lhrdocketeditor at gmail. LHR information at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/law-and-histo
@lawhistnetwork.bsky.social
Online seminars brought to you since October 2021 by the combined might of the legal historians of Bristol, Exeter and Cardiff Law Schools.
@chloejskennedy.bsky.social
Professor of Law and History; more here: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/dr-chloe-kennedy
@mitrasharafi.bsky.social
Legal historian at the University of Wisconsin Law School & President-elect, American Society for Legal History. History of forensic science, law books & legal education. Parsi legal culture. South Asia & British empire. Also dogs! Views my own.
@cburset.bsky.social
Law professor and legal historian at Notre Dame. Author, “An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy” (Yale University Press 2023). https://law.nd.edu/directory/christian-burset/
@historygriffin.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
@susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social
Historian of Early Modern European Legal & Political Thought, Renaissance, Italian Wars, Humanist Jurisprudence, Jus Gentium, Legal History, & History of Human Rights Jus Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence: On Justice and Right (DOI: 10.1163/97890045237
@sallyhadden.bsky.social
Historian of law, the south, early America. Lover of baseball, college bball, English theatre. Author of SLAVE PATROLS: LAW & VIOLENCE IN VIRGINIA & THE CAROLINAS. Editor of Publications, Colonial Society of Massahusetts.
@timlubin.bsky.social
Historian of religion and law in premodern S&SE Asia, Sanskrit & Old Javanese philologist, interdisciplinarian, art spouse. Head of Law, Justice & Society program at WLU. VP of American Society for Premodern Asia. https://timothylubin.net/
@arielagross.bsky.social
Distinguished Prof of Law & History @UCLALaw, cat lady, mom, lover of democracy. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Www.arielajgross.com
@annasaunders.bsky.social
Lecturer in Law at the Australian National University. International law, property, history, theory. Writing on patents + climate struggle. https://law.anu.edu.au/about/our-people/anna-saunders
@itihaasnaama.bsky.social
Between Clio and Themis| Lawyer, Historian @Yale | Author of 'A People's Constitution (Princeton, 2018) | Politics. Pop Culture. South Asia
@shuangchen.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History @ Univ. of Iowa. Chinese history, social and economic history, law and society, demography. Author of State-Sponsored Inequality (SUP 2017). President, International Society for Chinese Law and History (2024- ).
@profyangzhang.bsky.social
Sociologist studying contentious & elite politics, state & empire, political economy, knowledge, theory, and China. Associate Professor @ausis.bsky.social.
@wjhurst.bsky.social
Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Co-Director, Centre for Geopolitics Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) @rusi.bsky.social
@tristangbrown.bsky.social
Historian of China @MIT focusing on law, environment, economy, science, and religion Author, Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China (Princeton, 2023) China Book Editor, Journal of Asian Studies
@yingaa.bsky.social
Leiden University, Professor of Chinese History 🐌 🇳🇱 🇨🇳🇩🇰 Joint PhD in History & Women’s Studies (Univ of Michigan) Premodernist, 14-18th century political culture, gender, family, bureaucracy, religion, etc.
@donaldcclarke.bsky.social
Professor emeritus, George Washington University Law School, specializing in modern Chinese law. Gradually shifting over from Twitter/X. Website: http://donaldclarke.net Twitter: @donaldcclarke
@global-ih.bsky.social
Publishing on the history of ideas in global contexts, based @standrewsiih.bsky.social, printed @routledgehistory.bsky.social. Chief Editor, @rosariolopez.bsky.social; Reviews Editor, @tomaashby.bsky.social; A&M Special Issues Editor, Rory Cox
@theannasu.bsky.social
Law professor @ University of Toronto Human rights, law and tech, law and religion, and the NBA (mostly Golden State Warriors) https://www.law.utoronto.ca/faculty-staff/full-time-faculty/anna-su
@davidrarmitage.bsky.social
@Harvard_History professor. Honorary fellow @Catz_Cambridge scholar.harvard.edu/armitage/home
@duncanbell.bsky.social
Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism
@lchen2024.bsky.social
JD/PhD, UToronto historian of post-1500 Chinese law/politics/culture/intl relations; law & empire & postcolonial studies. Author of "Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics”.