Law & Social Inquiry
The ABF sponsors Law & Social Inquiry (LSI), a multidisciplinary quarterly publication of original research articles and review essays that analyze law, legal institutions, and the legal profession from a sociolegal perspective.
LSI contributors examine law and society issues across multiple disciplines, including anthropology, criminology, economics, history, philosophy, political science, sociology, and social psychology. The journal’s combination of empirical and theoretical scholarship and critical appraisal of the latest sociolegal scholarship makes LSI an indispensable source for legal scholars and practitioners.
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“Taxing Aliens and International Law: Nationalist China’s (1928-1949) Income Tax Negotiations with Treaty Powers”
Ming-hsi Chu
“Taxing Aliens and International Law: Nationalist China’s (1928-1949) Income Tax Negotiations with Treaty Powers” examines how Chinese international lawyers used international law to assert fiscal sovereignty through income tax reform during China’s Nationalist period. Drawing on a variety of American, German, British, and Chinese diplomatic archives, the paper shows that Chinese lawyers used international law both to legitimize state-building efforts and to challenge the imperial standards embedded in global fiscal norms.
Chu (he/him) is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at Northwestern University.
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