areas
norms
time
entangled

Join us for our international symposium: “Areas, Norms, Time: Entangled. Blogging Global Legal Histories” on 3-4 December 2026 at the University of Vienna, Austria. Register by email to: ante.rg@univie.ac.at

Two countries, three periods, one struggle: to assert sovereignty. In Qing and interwar China and in Morocco, this contest was intertwined with intermediary institutions, territorialization, and the stickiness of inequality.

With imperialism and colonialism serving as potent transmitters of Western ideas of constitutionalism, we look at how these ideas were plucked apart and made useful for local legal traditions and political needs.