Chinese Journal of International Law Advance Access originally published online on May 15, 2008
Chinese Journal of International Law 2008 7(2):339-352; doi:10.1093/chinesejil/jmn010
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International Legal Personality of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
This paper briefly reviews the change in the political status of Hong Kong from a British colony to a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, sets out the international rights and obligations of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) as evidence of its international legal personality and discusses whether the HKSAR can be treated as a subject of international law.
* Assistant Professor, Politics and Law Department, Dongguan University of Technology, 1 University Road, Song Shan Lake District, Dongguan, China (email: suncosunzhichao{at}126.com); LLB, Nankai University (2003); LLM, City University of Hong Kong (2004); JD, City University of Hong Kong (2007). This paper was completed in December of 2007.