About - Frédéric CONSTANT

Frédéric Constant is a professor of legal history at Université Côte d’Azur, Nice. His primary research interests are in Chinese law and comparative legal history, with emphasis on the interactions between Chinese law and legal institutions and those of other Asian countries. He is currently focusing on ancient Chinese jurisprudence and the history of crime in the Qing dynasty. He has published Le droit chinois (2013), Le droit mongol dans l’État impérial sino-mandchou, 1644-1911: Entre autonomie et assimilation (2018), and Traité juridique du Livre des Jin (2025).