One Country, Two Systems, Three Legal Orders - Perspectives of Evolution

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
The Intersection of Chinese Law and the Common Law in the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong: Question of Technique or Politics?....Pages 13-50
Law of Things in the Macau Civil Code: An Extension of the Romano—Germanic System Built Upon the Classical Concept of Ownership....Pages 51-73
Legal Transplants and Economic Development: Civil Law Vs. Common Law?....Pages 75-89
Modernisation, Westernisation, and Globalisation: Legal Transplant in China....Pages 91-114
Comments....Pages 115-116
Comments....Pages 117-118
Scotland: The Constitutional Protection of a Mixed Legal System....Pages 119-141
The South-Tyrol Autonomy in Italy....Pages 143-170
The Europeanization of Law....Pages 171-190
The Notion of Reparations as a Restorative Justice Measure....Pages 191-206
Comments....Pages 207-209
Comments....Pages 211-213
Lawyers, the Protection of Human Rights and Harmonious Society....Pages 217-220
The Judicial Guarantees of Fundamental Rights in the Macau Legal System: A Parcours Under the Focus of Continuity and of Autonomy ....Pages 221-269
Public Prosecution vis à vis the Protection of the Legal System and the Protection of Fundamental Human Rights....Pages 271-281
International Criminal Procedure and the Protection of the Fundamental Rights of the Person....Pages 283-314
Comments....Pages 315-318
Trend of Evolution of Chinese Mainland Prosecutorial System in the Context of Judicial Reform....Pages 319-328
The Role of the Ombudsman in Defending Human Rights....Pages 329-337
Domestic and International Judicial Protection of Fundamental Rights: A Latin American Comparative Perspective....Pages 339-357
Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Limits and Constraints to the Police Action in the Criminal Procedure: Several Aspects in Some Juslusophony Systems....Pages 359-373
Comments....Pages 375-381
Comments....Pages 383-385
Evolution of Autonomy and Federalism....Pages 389-407
Autonomy Experiences in Europe — A Comparative Approach: Portugal, Spain and Italy....Pages 409-441
French Overseas: New Caledonia and French Polynesia in the Framework of Asymmetrical Federalism and Shared Sovereignty....Pages 443-460
The Development of Asymmetric Regionalism and the Principle of Autonomy in the New Constitutional Systems: A Comparative Approach....Pages 461-481
Comments....Pages 483-484
Decentralization and Structural Policies: The European Experience....Pages 485-493
Legal Foundations, Structures and Institutions of Autonomy in Comparative Law....Pages 495-519
Comments....Pages 521-524
The Relationship Between Central and Local Governments Under the Unitary State System of China....Pages 527-540
Autonomous Legislative Power in Regional Ethnic Autonomy of the People\'s Republic of China: The Law and the Reality....Pages 541-563
Macao SAR Inter-Regional Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters 1 ....Pages 565-581
Comments....Pages 583-590
The Ranking of the International Law in the Framework of “The Basic Law of the Macao SAR of the People\'s Republic of China” and the Introspection on the Perplexities of Fundamental Rights....Pages 593-606
The Validity of the International Agreements of the Human Rights in the Juridical Order of the Special Administrative Region of Macau....Pages 607-629
Interpretation of the Basic Law by the Courts of the Macao SAR....Pages 631-654
The General Regime of Fundamental Rights in the Basic Law and in the International Instruments....Pages 655-677
Comments....Pages 679-680
Fundamental Rights and the Basic Laws of the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions....Pages 681-693
The Fundamental Rights in Macao....Pages 695-714
Constitutionalism and Western Legal Traditions in Human Rights in Asian Legal Systems: With a Special Focus on Chinese Legal Systems....Pages 715-731
Comments....Pages 733-740
Comments....Pages 741-744
The Autonomy of the Macau Special Administrative Region....Pages 745-750
The Theory, Constitution and Practice of Autonomy: The Case of Hong Kong....Pages 751-767
Interaction and Integration Between the Legal Systems of Hong Kong, Macao and Mainland China 50 Years After Their Return to China....Pages 769-775
The Special Administrative Regions of the PRC in Comparison with Autonomous Regions Models....Pages 777-798
Comments....Pages 799-802
Comments....Pages 803-806
Conference Final Comments....Pages 807-808
Back Matter....Pages 810-826