Prof Po Jen Yap, Director of CCPL, published an article “Reckoning of Our Times” in Hong Kong Law Journal.

Prof Po Jen Yap, Director of CCPL, published an article “Reckoning of Our Times” in Hong Kong Law Journal. 

For most of 2019, Hong Kong was rocked by civil unrest. The protests originally arose in opposition to the Hong Kong Government’s attempt to pass an extradition law that would allow for Hong Kong residents to be extradited to other regions and countries, including Mainland China, to face trial for alleged offences committed here. Even though the bill was eventually withdrawn, the unrest continued as protestors pressed on for other demands, including universal suffrage. In response to escalating street violence, the Hong Kong Government invoked the Emergency Regulations Ordinance (Cap 241) (ERO) to enact a regulation that bans facial covering in public. And the roiling constitutional crisis culminated with Beijing’s imposition of a bespoke National Security Law on Hong Kong in June 2020.

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