Description

Professor Alec Stone Sweet will be presenting his paper entitled “Breaching the Taboo: the Constitutional Dimensions of the New Chinese Civil Code”. In reference to the new Chinese Civil Code that came into effect on January 1 2021, the paper explores the relationship between the Code and Constitution, through a comparative analysis of: (i) the wider process of the ‘constitutionalisation’ around the globe; (ii) the scholarly discourse on the ‘horizontal effect’ of rights and the prohibition of constitutional judicial review in China; (iii) the normative structure of the Code itself; and (iv) the development of ‘political’ control mechanisms, to be deployed by the Communist Party of China and the highest organs of the state to constrain how judges use their interpretive powers.

Speakers:

• Professor Alec Stone Sweet, The University of Hong Kong
• Professor Kevin Tan, National University of Singapore (Moderator)

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