https://www.scmp.com/rss/327941/feed Fu Hualing is professor of law and holder of the Warren Chan Professorship in Human Rights and Responsibilities at the Department of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He specialises in constitutional law, legal institutions, and human rights with a focus on China. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com There are two imperatives that shape Hong Kong’s constitutional development: its high degree of autonomy and China’s national security. Should a free and “semi-democratic” Hong Kong protect the security of an authoritarian state and can Hong Kong offer such protection without compromising its value and integrity? Should Hong Kong legislate to protect the security of China’s political system and, if so, how will it reconcile the two conflicting and seeming irreconcilable imperatives?  For the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/hong-kong/article/2167909/hong-kong-must-walk-tightrope-between-its-desire?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/hong-kong/article/2167909/hong-kong-must-walk-tightrope-between-its-desire?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Oct 2018 23:30:00 +0000 As we commemorate the third anniversary of the July 9 crackdown on human rights lawyers, we are also celebrating the 40th anniversary of China’s post-Mao legal reform. The first batch of law students went to law schools in 1978, and now, in a couple months’ time, they will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of entering law schools and, for most of them, their retirement. They are the generation of lawyers who have gone through the cycle of witnessing the ebb and flow of China’s legal... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/fu-hualing-theres-more-chinas-rule-law-youd-think/article/2155154?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/fu-hualing-theres-more-chinas-rule-law-youd-think/article/2155154?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 13 Jul 2018 07:30:00 +0000