1. Professor of Law, School of Law;PhD in Law and HDR
2. at which a number of participants provided their general comments.We wish to thank Joshua DH Karton, Gabriel Cruz, Mateja Steinbruck Platise and Zoltan Pozsar-Szentmiklosy, for their valuable comments.Our particular thanks shall go to Andra le Roux-Kemp and Shuhbankar Dam, colleagues at City University of Hong Kong, and to Cora Chan of the University of Hong Kong for their critical and helpful suggestions on the various drafts of it;This article was presented at 2015 ASLI (Asian Law Institute) Conference in Taipei and 2015 ICON-S (International Society of Public Law) Conference in
3. for instance, suggests that it may be better to avoid the politically charged and inevitably controversial term "separation of powers;Johannes Chan;Law of the Hong Kong Constitution(Hong Kong: Sweet and Maxwell,2015
4. Liaison Office of Central People's Government in Hong Kong;Zhang Xiaoming;Correctly Understanding the Salient Features of the Political Structure of the HKSAR,2015