Strategic Circumvention of Constitutional Checks: Hong Kong’s Same-Sex Union Case

• In Event: Judicial Strategy and Self-Preservation

Brief Overview

The paper examines how Hong Kong’s top court required the government to recognize same-sex couples' relationships but rejected marriage equality, strategically relying on international human rights law to avoid Beijing’s override using the Basic Law.

Author

• Anson Cheuk-Hin Chung, Graduate Center, CUNY