Introduction Brian Christopher Jones, University of Sheffield, UKPART IDISOBEDIENCE, DEMOCRACY AND LAW1. Protest, Law and Regime Type Fu Hualing, University of Hong Kong, and Michael Jackson, University of Hong Kong2. The Ultimate Test of Fidelity: Judicial Responses to Civil Disobedience in Hong Kong and Taiwan Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and Anne SY Cheung, University of Hong Kong3. Democratic Legitimacy vs Rule of Law: A Comparative Study of Oath-taking Controversies in Hong Kong and Taiwan Zhu Han, University of Hong KongPART IIDEMOCRATIC STRUGGLES WITH LAW4. Court Criticism and the Rule of Law: From ‘Foreign’ to ‘Dinosaur’ Judges Brian Christopher Jones, University of Sheffield, UK5. Taiwan’s ‘Civil Code v Special Law’ Debate in the Same-Sex Marriage Controversy: A Populist Threat to the Rule of Law? Hsiaowei Kuan, National Taipei University, Taiwan6. Communitarian Rule of Law and the Judicial Articulation of the Right to be Represented in Singapore Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, University of Birmingham, UK and Jaclyn L Neo, National University of SingaporePART IIICLEARING THE SHADOW7. Authoritarian Rule of Law in Hong Kong Benny Y T Tai, University of Hong Kong8. Undemocratic Constitutional Law in Taiwan Lin Chien-Chih, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taiwan9. Law in the Shadow of the Political Xiaobo Zhai, University of Macau10. Developing a Human Right to Democracy in International Law: Protection by the Rule of Law? Glenn Patmore, University of Melbourne, Australia11. Democracy, Rule of Law and Resisting the Creep of Authoritarianism Amy Barrow, Macquarie University, Australia

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