“Key challenges facing the rule of law in Hong Kong”
Social Transformations in Chinese Societies
ISSN: 1871-2673
Article publication date: 22 June 2021
Issue publication date: 4 April 2022
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to highlight key challenges to the rule of law in Hong Kong.
Design/methodology/approach
This study deploys a historical and legal approach to explore the key challenges to the rule of law in Hong Kong. In particular, this paper analyzes legal conflicts in Hong Kong.
Findings
The findings show how the rule of law in Hong Kong has become a prominent battlefield of a constitutional struggle between Hong Kong Law and Chinese Law.
Originality/value
This paper hypothesizes that the conflicts arise from the different interpretations and conceptualizations of the rule of law between China and Hong Kong.
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Acknowledgements
Author would like to express deepest appreciation to Professor Wong Wilson Wai-ho for accepting author as a visiting research postgraduate student under his supervision in the Department of Government and Public Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong during the period from the Jan. 2019 to Dec. 2019. Without his encouragement, help and insightful suggestions and department’s support, this work would never have materialized.
This study was supported by research grants the “Overseas research support scholarship” from the Suenobu Foundation and the “Global Future Leading Jurists Project” of the Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University. An earlier version of this article was presented at the Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference in December 2019.
Citation
Hagiwara, R. (2022), "“Key challenges facing the rule of law in Hong Kong”", Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, Vol. 18 No. 1, pp. 88-103. https://doi.org/10.1108/STICS-01-2020-0002
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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