INTERNATIONAL LAW IN HONG KONG'S COURT OF FINAL APPEAL

Starting Time 活動開始時間

October 22, 2024 at 4:00 PM UTC

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October 22, 2024 at 12:00 PM EDT

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Participants 嘉賓

Carole J. Petersen is the Cades Foundation Professor of Law in the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where she teaches courses on international law, human rights, and gender and the law. She is also a member of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. From 1989-2006, Professor Petersen taught law in Hong Kong, where she also served as a director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law and an active member of the Women’s Studies Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong. She continues to research human rights in the territory and the implementation of the “One Country, Two Systems” model of autonomy. Her recent article, Territorial Autonomy as a Tool of Conflict Resolution? Lessons from “One Country, Two Systems” in Hong Kong, is available in the Academia Sinica Law Journal, 2022 Special Issue 195-243. Professor Petersen holds a BA from the University of Chicago, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a postgraduate diploma in the law of the People’s Republic of China from the University of Hong Kong. 

Organizers 主協辦機構

U.S.-Asia Law Institute, NYU School of Law

Mode 活動形式
Hybrid
Venue 地點
NYU School of Law Furman Hall 326 and via zoom
Languages 語言
English
Description 詳情

The National Security Law, which China imposed on Hong Kong in 2020, takes precedence over local law and has profoundly affected civil liberties and the right to fair trial. Does this mean international law no longer matters in Hong Kong? Our speaker, Carole Petersen, professor of law at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, finds that in cases not affecting Beijing’s core interests, local judges still rely on international and comparative sources and still rule against the local Hong Kong government. This has been particularly evident in strategic litigation to advance the rights of the LGBT community. Petersen concludes that if the local government is serious about trying to rebuild Hong Kong’s international reputation, then it should accept and fully implement these rulings.  

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