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Prototype Constitutional Supervision in China: The Lessons of the Hong Kong Basic Law Committee

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2016

Eric C. IP
Eric C. IP*
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kongericip@cuhk.edu.hk
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Abstract

Recurrent proposals to establish a constitutional supervisory committee have been pertinaciously rejected in spite of widespread recognition of the Chinese Constitution’s ineffectiveness. And yet, the Hong Kong Basic Law Committee has long epitomized in practice a prototypic form of constitutional supervision. Vested with quasi-judicial competences, the Committee seemed destined for a central role under the “One Country, Two Systems” arrangement. The tight secrecy imposed on its proceedings and the suppression of its potential to act consistently and with a distinct identity have fatally undermined the Committee’s ability to modulate constitutional tensions by way of coordinating expectations of the Basic Law’s proper meaning. The experience of the Basic Law Committee reveals the recalcitrance of the Party-state toward constitutional interpretation by any specialized body, even one whose powers are heavily circumscribed and whose membership is tightly controlled.

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Asian Journal of Comparative Law , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , December 2015 , pp. 323 - 342
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D.Phil., University of Oxford; Assistant Professor of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. This study was supported by an Early Career Scheme grant from the Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (ECS 459213). The author is grateful to Yau Him Francis FUNG and Hau Ying TSOI for their research assistance.

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