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Title

Interpreting Hong Kong's Basic Law : the struggle for coherence / edited by Hualing Fu, Lison Harris, and Simon N.M. Young.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Fu, Hualing
• Harris, Lison.
• Young, Simon N. M.

Description

vi, 265 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• China
• Hong Kong (China)
• Constitutional law > Hong Kong
• Hong Kong (China) > Relations > China

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Legislative history, original intent, and the interpretation of the Basic Law / Simon N.M. Young -- Embracing universal standards? : the role of international human rights treaties in Hong Kong's constitutional jurisprudence / Carole J. Petersen -- Constitutionalism in the shadow of the common law : the dysfunctional interpretive politics of article 8 of the Hong Kong Basic Law / Michael W. Dowdle -- Interpreting constitutionalism and democratization in Hong Kong / Michael C. Davis -- Forcing the dance : interpreting the Hong Kong Basic Law dialectically / Robert J. Morris -- The political economy of interpretation / Yash Ghai -- One term, two interpretations : the justifications and the future of Basic Law interpretation / Lin Feng and Py Lo -- Rethinking judicial reference : barricades at the gateway? / Py Lo -- Formalism and commitment in Hong Kong's constitutional development / Yu Xingzhong -- Of iron or rubber? : people's deputies of Hong Kong to the National People's Congress / Hualing Fu and D.W. Choy -- Legislative interpretation by China's National People's Congress Standing Committee : A power with roots in the Stalinist conception of law / Sophia Woodman -- China's constitutionalism / Lison Harris.

ISBN

0230600417 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007020984

OCLC

317623571

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library