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Geveral cases relating Chinese trials of foreigners in China.
Co-author, Criminal Justice in Post-Mao China: Analysis and Documents, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 300 PP. (Index)
(Co-author and contributor) China: 70 Years After the 1911 Hsin-hai Revolution, Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia, 1984, 601 pp.
(Editor and contributor) Symposium On Hong Kong: 1997, Occasional Papers/Reprints Series in Contemporary Asian Stúdies, 1985-3 (68). 99 pp. Index.
Co-editor and contributor, The Future of Hong Kong, Toward 1997 and Beyond, New York, Westport (Conn.)
and London: Quorum Books, The Greenwood Press, 1987. 254 pp. Index.
(6) (Editor and contributor), The Draft Basic Law of Hong Kong: Analysis and Documents, Occasional Papers/Reprints Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, 1988-5 (88).
153 PP. Index.
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Chinese is my native language, and I can read, write, and speak Mandarin Chinese fluently. I am also fully fluent in the English language. I maintain a library of Chinese Communist legal publications, which are in Chinese and which I use in my scholarly and professional endeavors. I have been asked to render a professional opinion in connection with a case relating to the extradition of Lorrain Osman, with regard to some of the legal ramifications of the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong, Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, and on certain aspects of Chinese law and international law. Accordingly, I provide the following analysis and opinions.
Analysis of Specific Questions
6. Effective July 1, 1997, the sovereignty of Hong Kong will be "restored" to the People's Republic of China ("PRC"). (China
never recognized British sovereignty in Hong Kong.)
has
All of
Hong Kong's existing laws will expire on that date except those the PRC chooses to continue (see explanation in Paragraph 7): the relevant laws as from that date are governed by the Basic Law, which was enacted by the National People's Congress of the PRC 4th April 1990. The Basic Law is a seminal document,
a type of Mini-Constitution, which will govern the relationship between the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong ("HKSAR") and the PRC.
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I have been asked to consider the status of the Hong Kong
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