Stuart M. McManus is Assistant Professor of World History at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and an Affiliated Scholar of the Faculty of Law's Centre for Transnational and Comparative Law. His published work ranges widely across global and legal history from antiquity to the present, and has been supported by prestigious fellowships at Princeton, Brown, Yale and the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago. He is the author of Empire of Eloquence: The Classical Rhetorical Tradition in Colonial Latin America and the Iberian World (Cambridge University Press, 2021).