Jonathan Ocko

Jonathan Ocko received his PhD in Modern Chinese History from Yale and is Professor of History and Head of the Department at North Carolina State University and Adjunct Professor of Legal History at Duke Law School, where he teaches courses on Chinese Legal History and Contemporary Chinese Law and Society. His current research has focused on law and literature, contract and property, and on the concept of justice in Modern Chinese history. His most recent publications are a volume he co-edited with Madeleine Zelin on Contract and Property in Early Modern China and "Interpretive Communities: Legal Meaning in Chinese Law," which was published in English in Writing and Law in Late Imperial China (edited by Robert Hegel and Catherine Carlitz) as well as in Chinese (in a different version) in the inaugural issue of the Chinese Journal of Legal History.