FROM CODE TO CASES AND CASES TO CODE 

A Comprehensive and Comprehensible translation of the Ming and Qing Criminal Codes

Institute of East Asian Studies (IAO), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon

24 -28 June 2013

Monday, June 24

9:00-9:30                     Welcome (Room R. 66)

9:30-10:30                   Overview of the “Legalizing Space in China” program, in its various aspects and realizations, focusing on the translation issue (JB, LG)

10:30-11:00                 Café and viennoiserie at the ENS Restaurant

11:00-12:30                 Overview of the LSC website:  resources and functions (JB, LG, FC)

                                    General discussion

Lunch at the ENS Restaurant, café in the garden

14:00-15:30                 Presentation of the Chinese-French translation project to date: methods, glossary, and other issues (FC, LG, JB)

                                    Discussion of the proposed Chinese-English translation initiative: sample translations and templates

                                    Creation of work teams:  scholars will be grouped in teams of two or three to translate  specific articles from the criminal code, following the model developed for the Chinese-French part of the project.

16:00-17:00                 Overview of the Mongol and Manchu law program (FC)

                                    Free time

Tuesday, June 25

9:00-10:30                   Team Work:  Session 1

10:30-11:00                 Café and viennoiserie at the ENS restaurant

11:00-12:30                 Team Work:  Session 2

Lunch at the ENS Restaurant, café in the garden

14:00-15:30                 Overview of the GIS aspect of the LSC program:  from law to maps, through sub-statutes, cases and GIS (JE, TKC)

16:00-17:00                 Discussion of Ming legal texts:  codes, case books, commentaries (beikao, zhuanzhu, etc.)

                                    Free Time

Wednesday, June 26

9:00-10:30                   Team Work:  Session 1

10:30-11:00                 Café and viennoiserie at the ENS restaurant

11:00-12:00                 Team Work:  Session 2

Lunch at the ENS Restaurant, café in the garden

13:15-14:45                 Brainstorming Meeting:  lessons learned, suggestions for improvement

15:30-17:00                Spectacle de Guignol in Vieux Lyon and Sightseeing

20:00                          Group dinner at a typical “Bouchon Lyonnais”

Thursday, June 27

9:00-10:30                   Team Work:  Session 1

10:30-11:00                 Café and viennoiserie at the ENS restaurant

11:00-12:00                 Team Work:  Session 2

Lunch at the ENS Restaurant, café in the garden

14:00-15:00                 Brainstorming Session:  plans for future collaboration onsite and online

15:30-16:30                 Presentation of the 2014 schedule  

“Civil Law” Workshop:  Tokyo, September 2013 (LG)

Panel, Ming-Qing Conference, December 2013 (FC)

Panel, AAS Annual Meeting, Philadephia, March 2014 (JB)

                                    Pièrre-Étienne Will, “Codified Law and Daily Justice” seminar, Collège de France, May 2014 (JB)

                                    Free Time

Friday, June 28

9:00-10:30                   Team Work:  Editing Session

11:00-12:30                 Presentation of Results

Lunch at the ENS Restaurant, café in the garden

14:00-15:00                 Concluding Remarks

                                    Free Time

20:00                           Group dinner in Croix Rousse

21:00                           For Jazz fans: Free Jam Session at Periscope

Workshop Participants

Bailey Alison (AB)                    abailey@interchange.ubc.ca       Univ. British Columbia

Bourgon Jérôme (JB)                 jerome.bourgon@ens-lyon.fr     IAO ENS de Lyon

Buoye Thomas (TB)                 budemao@gmail.com                 University of Tulsa

Chevaleyre Claude (CC)            cchevaleyre@gmail.com             EHESS (Ph.D. candidate)

Constant Frédéric (FC)                     Univ. Paris 10 Nanterre

Dykstra Maura  (MD)              maurad@ucla.edu                       UCLA (Ph.D. candidate)

Gabbiani Luca(LG)                    luca.gabbiani@efeo.net              EFEO Center, Beijing

Hou Qingbin (HQB)                  hqb1020@gmail.com                 IAO-ENS  (Ph.D. candidate)

Park Nancy (NP)                       nancy.park@csueasbtbay.edu   Cal State Univ, East Bay

Sun 孙 Jiahong 家红 (SJH)        sunjiahong240@sohu.com         CASS-Law institute Beijing

Tam 譚 Ka-chai家齊 (TKC)     tamkachai@hotmail.com            Baptist Univ. of Hong Kong

Zhang 張  Ning 寧 (ZN)            zhang.ning@free.fr                     Université de Genève

For the GIS session :

Erisman, Julie (JE)     julieerismann@yahoo.fr        Lyon