Legal Practice in the Formative Stages of the Chinese Empire ― An Annotated Translation of the Exemplary Qin Criminal Cases from the Yuelu Academy Collection

In Legal Practice, Ulrich Lau and Thies Staack offer a richly annotated translation of criminal case records from the pre-imperial period of Qin (between 246 BC and 222 BC) and shed new light on the Qin administration of justice.

Ulrich Lau, Ph.D. (1981), Humboldt University of Berlin, is Privatdozent (PD) for Classical Chinese studies at the University of Hamburg. He has published monographs and articles on several aspects of the early Chinese legal system.Thies Staack, Ph.D. (2015), University of Hamburg, is a research assistant at the Collaborative Research Centre “Material Text Cultures” at the University of Heidelberg. He has published several articles concerning early Chinese manuscript culture with a focus on codicology and the reconstruction of bamboo manuscripts.