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

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Evolution and Interaction of the Three Legal Systems: Romano-Germanic, Common Law, Socialist

   1. The Intersection of Chinese Law and the Common Law in the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong: Question of Technique or Politics?

      • Yash Ghai

      Pages 13-50

   2. Law of Things in the Macau Civil Code: An Extension of the Romano—Germanic System Built Upon the Classical Concept of Ownership

      • Tong Io Cheng

      Pages 51-73

   3. Legal Transplants and Economic Development: Civil Law Vs. Common Law?

      • Salvatore Mancuso

      Pages 75-89

   4. Modernisation, Westernisation, and Globalisation: Legal Transplant in China

      • Jianfu Chen

      Pages 91-114

   5. Comments

      • Hualing Fu

      Pages 115-116

   6. Comments

      • António Malheiro de Magalhães

      Pages 117-118

   7. Scotland: The Constitutional Protection of a Mixed Legal System

      • Chris Himsworth

      Pages 119-141

   8. The South-Tyrol Autonomy in Italy

      • Senator Oskar Peterlini

      Pages 143-170

   9. The Europeanization of Law

      • Cristina Ferreira

      Pages 171-190

   10. The Notion of Reparations as a Restorative Justice Measure

       • Antonio Buti

       Pages 191-206

   11. Comments

       • Jorge Godinho

       Pages 207-209

   12. Comments

       • Zhenmin Wang

       Pages 211-213

3. Evolution of the Judicial Systems — Role of Public Prosecution, Role of the Lawyers, Specialised Courts, Judicial Guarantees of Fundamental Rights

   1. Lawyers, the Protection of Human Rights and Harmonious Society

      • Cui Feng

      Pages 217-220

   2. The Judicial Guarantees of Fundamental Rights in the Macau Legal System: A Parcours Under the Focus of Continuity and of Autonomy

      • Paulo Cardinal

      Pages 221-269

   3. Public Prosecution vis à vis the Protection of the Legal System and the Protection of Fundamental Human Rights

      • Gavin T. Shiu

      Pages 271-281

   4. International Criminal Procedure and the Protection of the Fundamental Rights of the Person

      • Wladimir Brito

      Pages 283-314

   5. Comments

      • José António Pinheiro Torres

      Pages 315-318

   6. Trend of Evolution of Chinese Mainland Prosecutorial System in the Context of Judicial Reform

      • Guo Lixin

      Pages 319-328

   7. The Role of the Ombudsman in Defending Human Rights

      • Ivo Donat Firmo Mineiro

      Pages 329-337

“One Country, Two Systems, Three Legal Orders” – Perspectives of Evolution – : Essays on Macau’s Autonomy after the Resumption of Sovereignty by China” can be said, in a short preamble-like manner, to be a book that provides a comprehensive look at several issues regarding public law that arise from, or correlate with, the Chinese apex motto for reunification – One Country, Two Systems – and its implementation in Macau and Hong Kong. Noble and contemporary themes such as autonomy models and fundamental rights are thoroughly approached, with a multilayered analysis encompassing both Western and Chinese views, and an extensive comparative law acquis is also brought forward. Furthermore, relevant issues on international law, criminal law, and historical and comparative evolutions and interactions of different legal s- tems are laid down in this panoramic, yet comprehensive book. One cannot but underline the presence, in the many approaches and comments, of a certain aura of a modern Kantian cosmopolitanism revisitation throughout the work, especially when dealing with the cardinal principle of «One Country, Two Systems», which enabled a peaceful and integral reunification ex vi international law – the Joint Declarations – that ended an external and distant control.

• Autonomy
• Autonomy (autonomy regions)
• China
• Europe
• civil law
• comparative law
• law
• laws
• legal order
• politics

• International Law Office, Macau

  Jorge Costa Oliveira

• University of Macau, Macau

  Paulo Cardinal

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