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Interpreting Hong Kong's Basic Law: The Struggle for Coherence

By Hualing Fu , Lison Harris , Simon Young

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0230600417, 9780230600416, 9780230610361
LCC
KNR171 .I58 2007
Open Library ID
OL10194708M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1119583 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
280\276
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

On July 1, 2007, Hong Kong celebrated its tenth anniversary as a special administrative region of China.  It also marked the first decade of its unique constitutional order in which Hong Kong courts continue to apply and develop the common law but the power of final interpretation of the constitution lies with the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.  This book is a collection of chapters by leading constitutional law experts in Hong Kong who examine the interpretive issues and conflicts which have arisen since 1997.  Intervention by China in constitutional interpretation has been restrained but each intervention has had significant political and jurisprudential impact.  The authors give varied assessments of the struggle for interpretive coherence in the coming decade.

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