The legal system of the People’s Republic of China is closely intertwined with the Hong Kong legal system under the "one country-two system"€ constitutional arrangement. This course examines the constitutional and institutional arrangements within China, its legal and judicial institutions, state-individual relationship, and the rights and liberties regime. The course comprises three main components: constitutional law, administrative law, and human rights law. The issues we will consider are: the fundamentality of the People's Congress System, the party-state structure, the meaning of 'the rule of law with Chinese characteristics', judicial system and the role of the judiciary, administrative reconsideration and administrative litigation, and the protection of citizens' rights, as well as the authority of Chinese constitutional institutions over the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

To pass this course, students must obtain an aggregate mark of 40% and a minimum of 30% in each of the coursework, tutorial participation and class presentation, and end of semester examination.

Coursework for this purpose means those ways in which students are assessed otherwise than by the end of session examination. Students may be required to do class work orally or in writing at different intervals of the course. Students are encouraged to read more materials apart from the reading materials listed for the tutorial to enrich their performance in the class.

The portion of the overall mark allocated to performance/participation in interactive in-class activities will be assessed on the quality of the participation and presentation. Assessment criteria for those activities, their nature and their timing will be set out in the student guide/course manual and will be further expanded upon by the course leader.

To enable the students to obtain full benefit from this course, students should attend all of the classes and activities.

Assessment will be formative to enable students to demonstrate their capacity to understand, analyse and apply rules and principles, and summative to assess ability to synthesise primary and secondary material to solve actual and novel problems.