Does China Have Its Own Approach to “Law and Development”? – EVENT CANCELLED

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Does China Have Its Own Approach to “Law and Development”? – A Lecture by Matthew S. Erie

Matthew Erie is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies and Associate Research Fellow of the Socio-Legal Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. Professor Erie’s interdisciplinary work combines law and anthropology to expand the theoretical bases and empirical borders of comparative law, with a particular focus on Chinese law, Islamic law, and Asian law, more generally. Specifically, he has written on Chinese domestic and international law. His first book, China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law (Cambridge University Press, 2016), is the first ethnographic study of the relationship between sharia and state law in China. His current research project, “China, Law and Development,” examines China’s approach to building cross-border order through international economic law and the regulatory regimes of fragile host states.

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