Ulrich Lau

Ulrich Lau is a German sinologist . His specialty is the legal history of early China.

Life

Ulrich Lau received his doctorate in 1981 from the Humboldt University of Berlin and completed his habilitation there in 1989 with a thesis on land allocation regulations at the time of the Western Zhou dynasty . He was a private lecturer at the University of Heidelberg and participated in numerous scientific projects.

Since 2011 he has been a private lecturer at the University of Hamburg .

together with Thies Staack: Legal Practice in the Formative Stages of the Chinese Empire: An Annotated Translation of the Exemplary Qin Criminal Cases from The Yuelu Academy Collection. Brill, Leiden 2016, ISBN 978-90-04-31543-3 .
together with Michael Lüdke: Early Chinese legal terminology: a lexicon based on manuscripts from China and West China . Ostasien-Verl., Gossenberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-940527-91-2 .
together with Michael Lüdke: Exemplary legal cases from the beginning of the Han dynasty: An annotated translation of the Zouyanshu from Zhangjiashan . Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies, 2012, ISBN 978-4-86337-099-9 .
Source studies on land allocation and land transfer in the western Zhou dynasty (1045? - 771 BC) . Steyler-Verlag, Nettetal 1999, ISBN 3-8050-0429-X .
as co-editor: Studies on the cultural history of China: Contributions to the conference “Cultural History of China” from November 21 to 23, 1989 in Dresden . Publishing house for intercultural communication, Frankfurt / M. 1992, ISBN 3-88939-290-3 .
Ethnographic-historical research on the ideas of ancient Chinese philosophers (5th – 3rd centuries BC) about prehistory and early history . Humboldt-Univ., Berlin 1981 (dissertation).