Po Jen Yap is a Professor of Law at The University of Hong Kong. He is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and an Attorney at Law in the State of New York, USA. He is the author of Constitutional Dialogue in Common Law Asia (2015) and Courts and Democracies in Asia (2017).
1. Introduction; 2. Reasons for convergence; 3. Convergence on structured proportionality; 4. Convergence on innovative constitutional remedies; 5. Limits on convergence; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Explains why the constitutional jurisprudence of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea is converging, and provides analysis of relevant case law.