Legal Mobilization Under Authoritarianism - The Case of Post-Colonial Hong Kong

Informationen zum Autor Waikeung Tam is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Klappentext Using post-colonial Hong Kong as a case study, this book examines why and how legal mobilization arises in authoritarian regimes. Zusammenfassung Legal mobilization is the process by which individuals invoke their legal rights and use litigation to defend or develop these rights against the government. Waikeung Tam uses the case study of post-colonial Hong Kong to examine how and why it arises under authoritarian regimes. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: explaining the rise of legal mobilization in post-colonial Hong Kong; 2. The growth of legal mobilization in post-colonial Hong Kong; 3. Critical antecedent - legal complex; 4. The opening of new legal opportunities; 5. The reversal of political opportunities; 6. The political origins of cause lawyering in Hong Kong; 7. Cause lawyers as transformative agents; 8. Rights advocacy groups as transformative agents; 9. The impacts of the judicialization of politics; 10. Conclusion: theoretical and comparative contributions; Appendix 1. Human rights and public policy litigation the Privy Council and the Court of Final Appeal decided (1981-2010); Appendix 2. Important litigation brought by pro-democracy politicians and social activists to the Court of Appeal (CoA) and the Court of First Instance (CFI) (1981-2010); Appendix 3. List of interviewees (alphabetical by category).

Product details

• Authors: Waikeung Tam, Waikeung (Lingnan University Tam, Tam Waikeung
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2012
• EAN: 9781107031999
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03199-9
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Law, Human Rights, LAW / Constitutional, Hong Kong, Politics & government, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Human rights, civil rights, c 1990 to c 1999, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general