With the proliferation of information and communication technologies come needs for new or adjusted regulation in the various legal fields. The predominant area affected by new regulation has been the right to privacy and personal data protection. Recently, another area of law has gained increasing importance in light of new regulatory attempts: the freedom of...
Category: <span>Session IV</span>
CHINA‘S “ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS“: REFLECTIONS FROM HONG KONG AND MACAU
Hong Kong and Macau are the only two “special administrative regions“ in China- regions that are given a high degree of autonomy and allowed to not practice China‘s Socialist systems. This panel evaluates the nearly 21 years (for Hong Kong) and 18 years (for Macau) of implementing this “One Country, Two Systems“ governing mode and...
CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS? II
The early twenty-first century appears of be a period of turmoil in many seemingly stable constitutional democracies. This panel and two others discuss such questions as these: Are there general forces weakening constitutional democracy around the world, or are there nation-specific reasons for crises that simply happen to be occurring at roughly the same time?...
TRANSPARENCY AND PARTICIPATION IN CHINA‘S LOCAL GOVERNANCE
Reinforcing local governance has been a new focus of Chinese political reform. While the intellectual and institutional legacies of administrative law reform proposed by the central government have set tones of the overall reforms, local experimentalism constituted the main practice in the past years and is also being transformed into a new order of China‘s...
INTERNATIONAL NORMS AND CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN UNRECEPTIVE ENVIRONMENTS: THE SOUTH EAST ASIAN CONUNDRUM II (CONSTITUTIONALISM AS REGIONAL IMAGINARY)
In South East Asia there is sensitivity to international law intruding on domestic sovereignty; a patchy tradition of constitutional democracy; and the central vehicle for international engagement, ASEAN, largely eschews binding norms. A sister panel explored how ASEAN had reconfigured systems of administration around a model of the investee State. This panel explores the way...