SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Overview

School of Law

Lecturer in Chinese Law

Name:

Mr Ernest Caldwell

Email address:

ec24@soas.ac.uk

Telephone:

+44 (0)207 898 4645

Address:

SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Building:

Russell Square: College Buildings

Office No:

258

Office Hours:

Thursday 2pm to 4pm

Biography

Ernest Caldwell joined the SOAS law faculty in 2012 as Lecturer in Chinese Law.  He completed his undergraduate degree in History and Asian Studies, and then went on to obtain an M.A. in Chinese literature and an LL.M. in Asian Legal Studies.  He is currently completing his Ph.D. dissertation on traditional Chinese legal history at the University of Chicago.

Ernest’s primary research interest is the relationship between law and language in traditional and modern China, but he also spends a good deal of time in the fields of Chinese paleography, legal historiography, and comparative constitutional law.  His doctoral dissertation utilizes traditional Chinese sources and recently excavated legal manuscripts dating to the 3rd century B.C.E. to examine the development of written law in early imperial China.  He has also begun work on a second project that examines the development and use of Chinese constitutional language from the late imperial period to the present.

Ernest is currently revising several articles on traditional and modern Chinese law for publication.  His article “Promoting Action in Early Chinese Political Philosophy” was recently accepted for publication in the journal Early China, and he recently completed editorial work (with Terry Nardin) on a special symposium issue of the Chicago-Kent Law Review titled, “Methodological Approaches to Asian Constitutionalism,” which will feature his article “Horizontal Rights and Chinese Constitutionalism: Judicialization through Labor Disputes.”