Legal mobilization under authoritarianism : the case of post-colonial Hong Kong / Waikeung Tam.
2013
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Author
Title
Legal mobilization under authoritarianism : the case of post-colonial Hong Kong / Waikeung Tam.
Published
Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Call Number
KNQ9307 .T36 2013
Former Call Number
Ch.Hk 220 T15 2013
ISBN
9781107031999 (hardback)
1107031990 (hardback)
1107031990 (hardback)
Description
xiii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)796230354
Note
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2009).
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-214) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of tables and figures
xi
Acknowledgments
xii
PART I
1.
Introduction: explaining the rise of legal mobilization in post-colonial Hong Kong
3
2.
The growth of legal mobilization in post-colonial Hong Kong
30
3.
Critical antecedent - legal complex
38
PART II
4.
The opening of new legal opportunities
59
5.
The reversal of political opportunities
89
PART III
6.
The political origins of cause lawyering in Hong Kong
115
7.
Cause lawyers as transformative agents
135
8.
Rights advocacy groups as transformative agents
152
PART IV
9.
The impact of the judicialization of politics
171
10.
Conclusion: theoretical and comparative contributions
180
Appendix 1
Human rights and public policy litigation the Privy Council and the Court of Final Appeal decided (1981-2010)
187
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)
198
Appendix 3
List of interviewees (alphabetical by category)
202
Bibliography
204
Index
215