Charity Governance in Hong Kong: Some Legal Question

Co-organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong and the Centre for Comparative and Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kongpreprin

The constitutional game of article 158(3) of the Basic Law

In a recent civil case, the Court of Final Appeal decided to make a reference to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress under Art 158(3) o f the Basic Law to interpret certain other provisions of the Basic Law central to the issues and outcome of the case. By applying the constitutional game analytical framework, this article analyses why the Court of Final Appeal initiated the reference procedure in the way that it did.published_or_final_versio

A Tale of the Unexpected: Tung's Resignation and the Ensuing Constitutional Controversy

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The Principle of Minimum Legislation for Implementing Article 23 of the Basic Law

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region published the Consultation Document on the Proposals to Implement Article 23 of the Basic Law in September 2002. Article 23 of the Basic Law requires the Hong Kong Government to enact laws on its own to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition or subversion against the Central People's Government, or the theft of state secrets. The Hong Kong Government must also prohibit foreign political organisations or bodies from conducting political activities in Hong Kong and prohibit political organisations or bodies in Hong Kong from establishing ties with foreign political organisations or bodies. A list of proposals is made in the consultation document on how to implement Article 23. This article analyses those proposals on the basis of the principle of minimum legislation. Though many of the proposals are acceptable, some are not necessary or could be refined according to the principle.published_or_final_versio

Developing an index of the rule of law: sharing the experience of Hong Kong

The Rule of Law is considered a major aspect of modern governance. For every legal system, it is important whether the Rule of Law is attained and how far it has been attained. Though there are various indicators and indexes of the Rule of Law they all have their limitations. This paper reported a study conducted in Hong Kong in 2005, combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies, to assess the level of attainment of the Rule of Law in Hong Kong. It is found that the level of attainment is high but a downward trend is also discovered. A main objective of developing this new methodology in assessing Rule of Law, is that it could be used for tracking the development of the Rule of Law in a particular legal system and facilitating comparison between legal systems.published_or_final_versio

Early Music Series Concert: Quartetto Tomasini

This is the concert program of the Early Music Series Concert: Quartetto Tomasini performance on Sunday, September 29, 1996 at 3:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were String Quartet in D major, Korcak 5 by Alois Luidi Tomasini, String Quartet in C major, K. 465 byt Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and String Quartet in F major, Op. 18, No. 1 by Ludwig van Beethoven. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

To Be or Not To Be?

This squib accounts for the inconsistencies in the occurrence of genitive of negation with the Russian verb byt’ ‘to be’ and other genitive verbs by distinguishing two independent lexical entries for byt’ with a specified location that have differing syntactic and semantic characteristics. One is predicative/argument-taking, while the other is the copula in a copular construction with a locational prepositional predicate. Sentential negation invariably assigns genitive of negation to the grammatical subject of the copular construction, whereas the subject of predicative byt’ is in the wrong syntactic configuration to receive genitive of negation and therefore receives nominative case via agreement with the finite Infl

ENGENDERING BYT: RUSSIAN WOMEN'S WRITING AND EVERYDAY LIFE FROM I. GREKOVA TO LIUDMILA ULITSKAIA

Gender and byt (everyday life) in post-Stalinist culture stem from tacit conceptions linking the quotidian to women. During the Thaw and Stagnation the posited egalitarianism of Soviet rhetoric and pre-exiting conceptions of the quotidian caused critics to use byt as shorthand for female experience and its literary expression. Addressing the prose of Natal'ia Baranskaia and I. Grekova, they connected the everyday to banality, reduced scope, ateleological time, private life, and anomaly. The authors, for their part, relied on selective representation of the quotidian and a chronotope of crisis to hesitantly address taboo subjects. During perestroika women's prose reemerged in the context of social turmoil and changing gender roles. The appearance of six literary anthologies gave women authors and Liudmila Petrushevskaia in particular a new visibility. Female writers employed discourse and a broadened chronotope of crisis, along with the era's emphasis on exposure, negation, and systematic critique, to challenge gender roles. Both supporters and opponents of women's literature now directly addressed its relation to gender instead of using byt as a euphemism. From 1991 to 2001 women's prose solidified its status as a recognized part of Russian high literature. Liudmila Ulitskaia and Svetlana Vasilenko employed a transhistorical temporality that was based on the family and offered an indirect critique of history through representation of women's byt. Critics debated the relationship between women's writing, feminism, and the new divide between elite and popular literature. Depictions of byt in the work of Ulitskaia imply that the everyday is an artistic resource in its own right as well as a conduit to higher meaning