Pan Handian
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| Traditional Chinese | 潘漢典 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 潘汉典 | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 潘宗洵 | ||||||||
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Pan Handian (Chinese: 潘汉典; 3 December 1920 – 26 October 2019), also known as Pan Zongxun (潘宗洵), was a Chinese legal scholar, translator, and writer. He was recognized as a founder of comparative law in China. He served as Professor and Director of the Institute of Comparative Law at China University of Political Science and Law, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Comparative Law. He was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation by the Translators Association of China in 2012.