One Country, Two Systems, Three Legal Orders - Perspectives of Evolution

Cover -- Contents -- Opening Ceremony -- Welcome Address by the Secretary for Administration and Justice -- Speech by the Head of the Office of the European Union Commission in Hong Kong and Macao SARs -- Address by the Project Director -- Panel 1 Evolution and Interaction of the Three Legal Systems: Romano-Germanic, Common Law, Socialist -- The Intersection of Chinese Law and the Common Law in the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong: Question of Technique or Politics? -- Law of Things in the Macau Civil Code: An Extension of the Romano8211;Germanic System Built Upon the Classical Concept of Ownership -- Legal Transplants and Economic Development: Civil Law Vs. Common Law? -- Modernisation, Westernisation, and Globalisation: Legal Transplant in China -- Comments Globalization and the Politics of Comparative Law -- Comments 8220;Law of the Things in the Macao Civil Code: An Extension of the Roman8211;Germanic System Built Upon the Classic Concept of Ownership8221; -- Scotland: The Constitutional Protection of a Mixed Legal System -- The South-Tyrol Autonomy in Italy Historical, Political and Legal Aspects -- The Europeanization of Law -- The Notion of Reparations as a Restorative Justice Measure -- Comments -- Comments -- Panel 2 Evolution of the Judicial Systems 8211; Role of Public Prosecution, Role of the Lawyers, Specialised Courts, Judicial Guarantees of Fundamental Rights -- Lawyers, the Protection of Human Rights and Harmonious Society -- The Judicial Guarantees of Fundamental Rights in the Macau Legal System: A Parcours Under the Focus of Continuity and of Autonomy -- Public Prosecution vis 224; vis the Protection of the Legal System and the Protection of Fundamental Human Rights -- International Criminal Procedure and the Protection of the Fundamental Rights of the Person -- Comments -- Trend of Evolution of Chinese Mainland Prosecutorial System in the Context of Judicial Reform -- The Role of the Ombudsman in Defending Human Rights -- Domestic and International Judicial Protection of Fundamental Rights: A Latin American Comparative Perspective -- Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Limits and Constraints to the Police Action in the Criminal Procedure: Several Aspects in Some Jus-lusophony Systems -- Comments Reciprocal Enforcement of Court Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters Between Hong Kong SAR and the Mainland -- Comments -- Panel 3 Autonomy 8211; A Comparative Approach: Purpose, Origins, International Foundations, Structures, Financial Aspects, Evolution -- Evolution of Autonomy and Federalism -- Autonomy Experiences in Europe 8211; A Comparative Approach: Portugal, Spain and Italy -- French Overseas: New Caledonia and French Polynesia in the Framework of Asymmetrical Federalism and Shared Sovereignty -- The Development of Asymmetric Regionalism and the Principle of Autonomy in the New Constitutional Systems: A Comparative Approach -- Comments -- Decentralization and Structural Policies: The European Experience -- Legal Foundations, Structures and Institutions of Autonomy in Comparative Law -- Comments Autonomy as an Enduring Concept -- Panel 4 Autonomy Within the P.R. of China -- S.A.R.s et alii; Purpose, Origins, Structures and Evolution -- The Relationship Between Central and Local Governments Under the Unitary State System of China -- Autonomous Legislative Power in Regional Ethnic Autonomy of the People8217;s Republic of China: The Law and the Reality -- Macao SAR Inter-Regional Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters -- Comments Local Autonomy in the Context of Chinese Political Modernization -- Panel 5 Fund.