Emily Whewell is a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt
'Law across imperial borders significantly enriches our understanding of the British consular presence in frontier China, and it consequently will interest different audiences. Scholars of the British Empire will find a study of colonial law expanding beyond its borders. For historians of Chinese borderlands, Whewell clarifies and greatly nuances the vicissitudes of British interests and their institutional and political contexts.' Eric Schluessel, American Journal of Legal History -- .