Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Weilin Xiao awarded the Hessel Yntema Prize 2025

Congratulations to Weilin Xiao, whose article “Expansion and Restriction: Divergent Paths Towards Modernizing Family Law in China and Japan, 1868-1930” was awarded the Hessel Yntema Prize 2025 by the American Society of Comparative Law. This article forms the first part of Weilin's doctoral dissertation, which he is currently developing into a book manuscript

Background on the prize: Established in 1991 to honor the first editor in chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law, the Hessel Yntema prize of $1,500 recognizes the “most outstanding” article by a younger scholar under 40 years of age published in a recent volume of the Journal. Please click here for more details regarding the prize.

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