Anthony François Paulus Hulsewé (31 January 1910 – 16 December 1993) was a Dutch Sinologist and scholar best known for his studies of ancient Chinese law, particularly that of the Han dynasty (220 BC – AD 206).

Anthony François Paulus Hulsewé was born on 31 January 1910 in Berlin, Germany, where his father worked for a German firm as an electrical engineer.

[2] After completing secondary school in 1927, Hulsewé took and passed the competitive examination for one of these scholarships, entering Leiden University in the autumn of 1928 to study Chinese under the Dutch Sinologist J. J. L.

[7] In 1935, Hulsewé moved to Batavia (modern Jakarta, Indonesia) to take up a position in the Dutch Bureau of East Asian Affairs, where his job was mainly to gather political information from Chinese and Japanese newspapers.

[7] Duyvendak was interested in focusing Chinese scholarship at Leiden on to the Han dynasty, and so Hulsewé began working on the legal history of that era.