CCPL Seminar: Book talk on The Idea of A China Arrest Warrant—Surrender of Fugitive Offenders between Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau
Date: 28 February 2025
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Room 723, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong and Macau have both been Special Administrative Regions of China since 1999. To this day, however, the two SARs and mainland China have not formed a cohesive agreement extradition. Yanhong Yin proposes a theoretical model—the China Arrest Warrant— that fulfills three essential criteria:compliance with the “One country” fact, allowance for differences within the three divergent legal systems, and sufficient human rights protection.
This model takes inspiration from the European Arrest Warrant, which is underpinned by the principle of mutual recognition—the idea that while states may make different decisions on a wide range of matters, results will be accepted as equivalent to decisions made by one’s own state. The Success of the European Union’s adoption of mutual recognition across political, economic and legal situations is instrumental in providing a blueprint for judicial cooperation among mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau.
This ambitious volume seeks to resolve a legal conundrum that has existed for decades without resolution and is essential reading in criminal and constitutional law.
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