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

1. Introduction
Hualing Fu, Lison Harris, Simon N. M. Young

Part I. Interpreting Hong Kong’s Basic Law

2. Legislative History, Original Intent, and the Interpretation of the Basic Law
Simon N. M. Young

3. Embracing Universal Standards?
Carole J. Petersen

4. Constitutionalism in the Shadow of the Common Law
Michael W. Dowdle

5. Interpreting Constitutionalism and Democratization in Hong Kong
Michael C. Davis

6. Forcing the Dance
Robert J. Morris

Part II. Crossing the Border

7. The Political Economy of Interpretation
Yash Ghai

8. One Term, Two Interpretations
Lin Feng, P. Y. Lo

9. Rethinking Judicial Reference
P. Y. Lo

10. Formalism and Commitment in Hong Kong’s Constitutional Development
Yu Xingzhong

Part III. Legislative Interpretation and the PRC Constitution

11. Of Iron or Rubber?
Hualing Fu, D. W. Choy

12. Legislative Interpretation by China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee
Sophia Woodman

13. China’s Constitutionalism
Lison Harris

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Asian Politics, Asian Culture, Popular Science in Education, Political Science, Democracy