Interpreting Hong Kong's Basic Law
Subtitle: the struggle for coherence
By: edited by Hualing Fu, Lison Harris, Simon N.M. Young.
Contributors: Fu, Hualing.; Harris, Lison.; Young, Simon N. M.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780230600416
Subjects: China; Constitutional law -- China -- Hong Kong; Hong Kong (China) -- Relations -- China
Notes: "Transferred to digital printing in 2008"--T.p. verso.

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