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Title
Joint Symposium 'Law, Economy and Social Change in
Hong Kong Today : Multiangular Inspection of and
Dialogue on the Asian Age' : Editorial Note
Author(s)
Ji, Weidong
Citation
Kobe University law review, 35: 47-48
Issue date
2001
Resource Type
Departmental Bulletin Paper / 紀要論文
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URL
http://www.lib.kobe-u.ac.jp/handle_kernel/00316505
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Joint Symposium
''law, Economy and Social Change in Hong Kong Today
Mult;iangular Inspection of and Dialogue on the Asian Age"
Editorial Note
Ji Weidong
Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University
In the spring of 2001, the Graduate School of Law, Kobe University and
Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong co-organized a
multidisciplinary conference to discuss law and social change in Hong Kong
since .1997. The conference was first suggested by motion of Professor
Ryuhei Hatsuse. The program of the conference was as follows:
March 20th, 2001
DATE:
Presentation Room, the Graduate School of International
VENUE:
Cooperation Studies, Kobe University
.
PROCEEDINGS:
12:30-12:40 Opening Address by Professor Noriho Urabe, The Vice
President, Kobe University
12:40-14:00 Session One: Constitutional Order and Public Sphere
Moderator: Professor Takehisa Nakagawa (Kobe University)
Professor Albert H. Y. Chen ([he University of Hong Kong),
"Hong Kong's Legal System in the New Constitutional Order:
The Experience of 1997-2000"
Professor Shiro Kashimura (Kobe University),
"Legal Communication as the Basis of Civic Society"
14:00-14:20 Coffee Break
14:20-15:40 Session Two: New Dimensions of Human Rights
Moderator: Professor Makoto Mitsui (Kobe University)
Professor Johannes Chan (The University of Hong Kong),
''The State of Human Rights in Hong Kong after the Handover"
Professor Gen Kikkawa (Kobe University),
''The Non-Intervention Principle Reconsidered - Human Rights
and Institutionalized International Intervention in Security
Community Building"
15:40-16:00 Coffee Break
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16:00-17:50 Session Three: the Future of Hong Kong and East Asia
Moderator: Professor Ryuhei Hatsuse (Kobe University)
Professor Zhang Xianchu (The University of Hong Kong),
"Legal Challenges in the Economic Integration of Mainland
China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region"
Professor Mariko Tanigaki (The University of Tokyo)
'The Development of Political Party in Hong Kong"
Professor Norio Komuro (Kobe University)
"EC Antidumping Measures against Hong Kong and the
GATT/WTO Regime; Review of the WTO Antidumping
Agreement"
17:50-18:00 Concluding Address by Professor Tamotsu Isomura, Dean of
The Graduate School of Law, Kobe University
18:30-20:00 Reception
To help mark the grand occasion, we are very honored to publish
several articles from among the other wonderful presentations. We hope
that our readers will enjoy these contributions from the guests as well as
from the other papers.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people who took
part in the conference as speakers, moderators, discussants or audience. I
also \\ish to express gratitude on behalf of Professor Hatsuse.