Identity, Security, Democracy: Challenges for Public Law 25-27 June 2018
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Identity, Security, Democracy: Challenges for Public Law 25-27 June 2018 2018 HONG KONG KONG HONG 2018 The University of Hong Kong ICON•S CONFERENCE ICON•S To access free WiFi: 1. Join this available WiFi network: “Wi-Fi.HK via HKU” 2. Open a web browser and read the conditions of use. 3. After clicking “Accept and continue”, you may start using the WiFi service. To download the Mobile App for the conference: 1. Download EventX at App Stores using your usual credentials for downloading apps. App Store https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eventx-event- app/id1321224680?mt=8 Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/ details?id=com.eventxtra.eventx&hl=en 2. After downloading the EventX App, 3. Tap “+” to add event open the App and create an account by typing in your email address and a password. 2 4. Tap “Activate 5. Enter access code 6. Congrats! You can now event” “2018” and press view the abstracts of “YES, ACTIVATE” the papers and access the maps of the venues at your fingertips! To put together a personal itinerary on the conference App: 1. Tab “Schedule” or 2. Click the button 3. Click “View Saved” “Concurrent Panels” to add the session(s) at the top to view the at the bottom to view that you plan to itinerary the sessions of the attend into your Conference personal itinerary 3 CONTENTS I. Welcome Statements 5 II. Schedule 6-8 III. Plenary Events 9-18 IV. Concurring Panels Panel Sessions I 20-35 Panel Sessions II 36-52 Panel Sessions III 53-69 Panel Sessions IV 70-83 Panel Sessions V 84-99 Panel Sessions VI 100-114 V. ICON·S Governance 115-116 VI. Service 117-119 VII. Map of Conference Venues & Floor Plans 120-123 VIII. Participants 124-134 I It is a great privilege and honour for our Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong to host this WELCOME year’s ICON·S Conference to mark the beginning of the celebration of our 50th Anniversary. Our STATEMENTS law school, founded in 1969, is the first among the three law schools that now exist in Hong Kong. It has educated generations of graduates who have We are delighted to extend a warm welcome to become Hong Kong’s lawyers, judges, legal schol- all of the participants in the 2018 Annual Meeting ars, politicians and other movers and shakers. It of ICON·S, the International Society of Public Law. has witnessed many legal, political and socioec- This year’s Annual Meeting will be the first to take onomic changes in this cosmopolitan city, which place outside of Europe and North America since is now the home of more than seven million resi- the foundation of the Society in 2013. We are dents. Hong Kong achieved spectacular economic particularly happy that it is taking place in Asia, a growth in the 1960s and 1970s and became one vast and crucial continent with so much to offer to of the “Four Little Dragons” of East Asia, togeth- public law scholarship and practice. The meeting er with Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. As coincides with the 50th anniversary of Hong Kong the era of “reform and opening” began in China University Law Faculty, one of the foremost law in the late 1970s, Hong Kong served as China’s faculties in Asia and the world. It takes place at a window to international business and a bridge time of continuing global and domestic political between China and the West. With the signing of turbulence and uncertainty, making the mission the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, Hong of ICON·S to promote the interdisciplinary study Kong entered its political transition from a British of public law at the local, national, regional and colony to a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of global levels ever more crucial. This year, the pan- the People’s Republic of China. The SAR was duly els, roundtables and plenary events address the established in 1997; it celebrated its 20th anniver- overarching theme of “Identity, Security, Demo- sary last year. cracy: Challenges for Public Law” and a wide range of other topics central to public law scholarship We hope participants at this conference can expe- and practice today. We are deeply grateful to our rience first-hand the vitality and richness of Hong Hong Kong hosts for their immense hard work, Kong’s life under the constitutional experiment vision and energy in putting together such an known as “One Country, Two Systems”, designed ambitious and exciting event, and we thank our to confer on Hong Kong a high degree of auton- sponsors for their generous support. Finally and omy under Chinese sovereignty and to enable it most importantly, we thank all ICON·S members to maintain its Common Law-based legal system. for once again responding with overwhelming “Identity, Security, Democracy: Challenges for Pub- positivity and enthusiasm to the call for papers, lic Law” was chosen as the theme of this Confer- and for attending the conference in such healthy ence because Asian public law in recent decades numbers. We are grateful for your interest, time has been confronted with complex issues of iden- and commitment to promoting the growth and tity, security and democracy. Indeed, Asia is not vitality of the Society and its annual conference. alone in facing these challenges. They are global We are delighted to present what we believe is a in nature. We hope that the sharing of experience, truly exciting, diverse and intellectually rewarding wisdom and insights at this Conference can con- conference program featuring academics, lawyers tribute to the continuing international dialogue and public intellectuals from a range of disciplines on how public law can and should develop in res- and from all parts of the globe. We wish all of you ponse to the challenges of new global economic, a very enjoyable and enriching conference! technological, social and ideological forces. GRÁINNE DE BÚRCA RAN HIRSCHL MICHAEL HOR New York University University of Toronto & Dean of Faculty of Law University of Göttingen The University of Hong Kong Co-Presidents, ICON·S, the International Society of Public Law Local host 5 WELCOME STATEMENTS II SCHEDULE Monday 25 June 2018 12:00 – 13:00 Registration Foyer outside Grand Hall 13:00 – 13:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks Grand Hall 13:15 – 13:30 Opening Address Grand Hall 13:30 – 14:40 Keynote Address Grand Hall 14:40 – 15:00 Coffee Break Foyer outside Grand Hall 15:00 – 16:30 Plenary Panel I: Diversity, Identity and Human Rights Grand Hall 16:45 – 18:15 Panel Sessions I pp 19-35 Sessions 1 – 29 Cheng Yu Tung Tower and CPD Classrooms 18:30 Ceremony to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of HKU Faculty of Law Grand Hall 19:00 Conference Opening Reception Foyer outside Grand Hall SCHEDULE 6 Tuesday 26 June 2018 12:00 – 13:00 Registration 09:00 – 10:30 Panel Sessions II pp 36-52 Foyer outside Grand Hall Sessions 30 – 60 Cheng Yu Tung Tower and CPD Classrooms 13:00 – 13:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks Grand Hall 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break Foyer outside Grand Hall 13:15 – 13:30 Opening Address Grand Hall 11:00 – 12:30 Panel Sessions III pp 53-69 Sessions 61 - 92 13:30 – 14:40 Keynote Address Cheng Yu Tung Tower and CPD Classrooms Grand Hall 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break 14:40 – 15:00 Coffee Break Foyer outside Grand Hall Foyer outside Grand Hall 13:30 – 14:30 ICON·S Plenary Workshop: How to Supervise 15:00 – 16:30 Plenary Panel I: Diversity, Identity and Human Rights a PhD Thesis* Grand Hall Grand Hall 16:45 – 18:15 Panel Sessions I pp 19-35 14:30 – 16:00 Award Announcements: ICON·S Book Prize & Sessions 1 – 29 ICON Best Paper Prize Cheng Yu Tung Tower and CPD Classrooms Grand Hall 18:30 Ceremony to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary Plenary Panel II: Courts and Democratization of HKU Faculty of Law Grand Hall Grand Hall 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break 19:00 Conference Opening Reception Foyer outside Grand Hall Foyer outside Grand Hall 16:30 – 18:00 Panel Sessions IV pp 70-83 Sessions 93 – 118 Cheng Yu Tung Tower and CPD Classrooms * This workshop will be conducted by Professor Joseph H.H. Weiler (New York University School of Law) 7 SCHEDULE Wednesday 27 June 2018 09:00 – 10:30 Panel Sessions V pp 84-99 Sessions 119 – 147 Cheng Yu Tung Tower and CPD Classrooms 10:30 – 10:45 Break 10:45 – 12:15 Panel Sessions VI pp 100-114 Sessions 148 – 174 Cheng Yu Tung Tower and CPD Classrooms 12:15 – 12:45 Snack Break Foyer outside Grand Hall 12:45 – 14:15 Plenary Panel III: Technology and Public Law Grand Hall 14:15 – 14:30 Closing Remarks Grand Hall SCHEDULE 8 III PLENARY EVENTS Opening Remarks Monday 13:00-13:15 PROFESSOR MICHAEL HOR PROFESSOR RAN HIRSCHL Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Toronto and University The University of Hong Kong of Göttingen, Co-President, ICON·S Michael Hor is Dean and Pro- Ran Hirschl (PhD, Yale University) fessor at the Faculty of Law, The is Professor of Political Science University of Hong Kong. He is a & Law at the University of To- member of the Law Reform Com- ronto, holder of the Alexander mission of Hong Kong. Prior to that, he was a Professor von Humboldt Professorship in Comparative Constitu- at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore tionalism at the University of Göttingen, and leader of where he taught and researched in criminal law, crim- the Max Planck Society’s Fellow Group in Comparative inal procedure and criminal justice.