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

HUALING FU is Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong. LISON HARRIS is Assistant Research Officer at the Centre for Comparative& Public Law, University of Hong Kong. SIMON YOUNG is Associate Professor; Deputy Director, Centre for Comparative and Public Law; and Co-Director, Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law at the University of Hong Kong.

Introduction PART I: INTERPRETING HONG KONG'S BASIC LAW Legislative History, Origina Intent, and the Interpretation of the Basic Law; S.Young Embracing Universal Standards?The Role of International Human Rights Treaties in Hong Kong's Constitutional Jurisprudence; C.J.Petersen Constitutionalism in the Shadow of the Common Law: The Dysfunctional Interpretive Politics of Article 8 of the Hong Kong Basic Law; M.Dowdle Interpreting Constitutionalism and Democratisation in Hong Kong; M.Davis Forcing the Dance: Interpreting the Hong Kong Basic Law; R.Morris PART II: CROSSING THE BORDER One Term, Two Interpretations: The Justifications and the Future of Basic Law Interpretation; L.Feng & P.Lo  Rethinking Judicial Reference: Barricades at the Gateway?; P.Lo Formalism and Commitment in Hong Kong's Constitutional Development; Y.Xingzhong PART III: LEGISLATIVE INTERPRETATION AND THE PRC CONSTITUTION Legislative Interpretation by China's National People's Congress Standing Committee: a Power with Roots in the Stalinist Conception of Law; S.Woodman Of Iron or Rubber? People's Deputies of Hong Kong to the National People's Congress; F.Hualing & D.W.Choy China's Constitutionalism; L.Harris