To what extent and in what form can the rule of law exist in non‐democratic jurisdictions? This panel explores issues related to these perennial questions from fresh angles. The first two papers expound the nature of the rule of law. Jeff King argues that state regulation is an important element of the rule of law,...
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CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW IN CHINA
This panel involves 7 public scholars in China. Four speakers will give presentations and Prof. Qinwei GAO and Dr. P.Y. Lo will be the commentators. This panel will be moderated by Prof. Cora CHAN. Prof. WANG will share the latest debate over the nature of constitutional law in contemporary China, and invite one German scholar...
Legal pluralism: a means of sustaining liberal constitutionalism within authoritarianism? The case of China and Hong Kong
In this paper, legal pluralism is defined as the existence of conflicting rules within a legal system on an institution‘s legal power, with no other institution possessing the legal power to resolve that conflict. An example of such pluralism is found in the interaction between European law and member state law: the ECJ claims that...