Akron Law will host a lecture by John Head, professor of law at the University of Kansas School of Law. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is titled \u201cChina\u2019s Legal Soul \u2013 The Modern Chinese Legal Identity in Historical Context\u201d and will be held Tuesday, Feb. 2\u00a0 at 4 p.m. in Room 151 at The University of Akron School of Law, 150 University Ave., Akron, Ohio. A reception will immediately follow the lecture.<\/p>\n
In his presentation, Head will draw from his most recent book on Chinese law to offer observations on two key questions. First, is there a \u201crule of law\u201d in China \u2013 and if so, what form does it take? Second, what might we consider the \u201clegal soul\u201d of modern China, providing that vibrant society with its central spirit or ideology?\u00a0 In addressing these issues, Head highlights the dramatic legal reform movement occurring in China today, almost exactly a century after the collapse of the (official) dynastic form of governance, in which Imperial Confucianism served (in Head\u2019s view) as the \u201clegal soul\u201d of the society. <\/p>\n
Head holds both an English law degree from Oxford University and a J.D. degree from the University of Virginia. Before joining the KU law faculty, he was in private practice in Washington, D.C., and served as legal counsel to the Asian Development Bank and to the International Monetary Fund. He has taught law in several countries in Europe and Asia and regularly undertakes overseas assignments involving international financial law, international organizations, and international legal training. He was the Paul Hastings Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong in March-April 2008 and spent the spring 2009 term teaching and conducting research at the University of Trento in northern Italy as the Trento Chair in Law, part of the Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Awards Program.<\/p>\n
Head has published widely in the area of international financial law and institutions \u2013 with his most recent book in that area, Losing the Global Development War, released in 2008 \u2013 as well as in the area of Chinese law and legal history. His most recent book in that area, China\u2019s Legal Soul<\/em>, will serve as the basis for his presentation on Feb. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Akron Law will host a lecture by John Head, professor of law at the University of Kansas School of Law. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is titled \u201cChina\u2019s Legal Soul \u2013 The Modern Chinese Legal Identity in Historical Context\u201d and will be held Tuesday, Feb. 2\u00a0 at 4 p.m. in … Continue reading “Visiting Professor John Head to Discuss the Modern Chinese Legal Identity on Feb. 2”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-akron-law-events","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}