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

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

   1. Domestic and International Judicial Protection of Fundamental Rights: A Latin American Comparative Perspective

      • Jorge Ulises Carmona Tinoco

      Pages 339-357

   2. Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Limits and Constraints to the Police Action in the Criminal Procedure: Several Aspects in Some Juslusophony Systems

      • Jorge Carlos Fonseca

      Pages 359-373

   3. Comments

      • Stephen Kai-yi Wong

      Pages 375-381

   4. Comments

      • Zhu Lin

      Pages 383-385

2. Autonomy — A Comparative Approach: Purpose, Origins, International Foundations, Structures, Financial Aspects, Evolution

   1. Evolution of Autonomy and Federalism

      • Hans-Joachim Heintze

      Pages 389-407

   2. Autonomy Experiences in Europe — A Comparative Approach: Portugal, Spain and Italy

      • Fernando Domínguez García

      Pages 409-441

   3. French Overseas: New Caledonia and French Polynesia in the Framework of Asymmetrical Federalism and Shared Sovereignty

      • Jacques Ziller

      Pages 443-460

   4. The Development of Asymmetric Regionalism and the Principle of Autonomy in the New Constitutional Systems: A Comparative Approach

      • Giancarlo Rolla

      Pages 461-481

   5. Comments

      • Chris Himsworth

      Pages 483-484

   6. Decentralization and Structural Policies: The European Experience

      • Manuel Porto

      Pages 485-493

   7. Legal Foundations, Structures and Institutions of Autonomy in Comparative Law

      • Markku Suksi

      Pages 495-519

   8. Comments

      • Michael C. Davis

      Pages 521-524

3. Autonomy Within the P.R. of China — S.A.R.s et alii; Purpose, Origins, Structures and Evolution

   1. The Relationship Between Central and Local Governments Under the Unitary State System of China

      • Lok Wai Kin

      Pages 527-540

   2. Autonomous Legislative Power in Regional Ethnic Autonomy of the People's Republic of China: The Law and the Reality

      • Chunli Xia

      Pages 541-563

   3. Macao SAR Inter-Regional Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters1

      • Jorge Costa Oliveira

      Pages 565-581

   4. Comments

      • Dan Wei

      Pages 583-590

4. Fundamental Rights and Interaction of the Legal Systems

   1. 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

      • Fong Man Chong

      Pages 593-606

   2. The Validity of the International Agreements of the Human Rights in the Juridical Order of the Special Administrative Region of Macau

      • António Malheiro de Magalhães

      Pages 607-629

   3. Interpretation of the Basic Law by the Courts of the Macao SAR

      • Jorge Menezes

      Pages 631-654

   4. The General Regime of Fundamental Rights in the Basic Law and in the International Instruments

      • Vitalino Canas

      Pages 655-677

“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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