“Dicey in Hong Kong“
Richard Cullen
in Twenty-First Century Views on the Scholarship of AV Dicey, edited by Catherine Marshall and Céline Roynier (Bloomsbury Publishing, December 2024), Chapter 13
Summary: When one critiques authoritarian jurisdictions with a optimistic historical past of adhering to Rule of Legislation formed governance methods, Hong Kong is rightly thought to be an exemplar. British Hong Kong (BHK) supplies a outstanding story of the efficient growth and consolidation of such a system, which has continued to use since July, 1997, when BHK grew to become the Hong Kong Particular Administrative Area (HKSAR) inside the Folks’s Republic of China (PRC) underneath the One Nation Two Methods (OCTS) governing precept. This chapter: critiques how “Diceyan Constitutionalism” was basic, inside the pivotal context of “Chinese language Familism”, in shaping the event of governance establishments and pivotal operational procedures inside this British Colony; and discusses how that system has coped with the latest, radical political construction reforms imposed on Hong Kong by Beijing (following an prolonged interval of exceptionally violent political dysfunction) as Hong Kong actively comprehends its future as an inalienable a part of China.
