Enjoy your rights! Three cases from the postcolonial commonwealth

Public Culture

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 377-393

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EID: 0031508638     PISSN: 08992363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/08992363-9-3-377     Document Type: Review

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1. A version of this essay has been submitted in partial fulfillment of the J.S.D. degree at the Faculty of Law, Columbia University. I thank Professors Kent Greenawalt, Mark Barenberg and Kendall Thomas and Peter Strauss of Columbia University for all their generous support. For their constructive comments, I thank Dr. Alison Young, Dr. Costas Douzinas, Professor Alan Norrie, Professor Yash Ghai, Professor Robert Fine, and Professor Mark Bracher. Support for this essay was provided by the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, and research assistance by Cheung Chingching and Lily Poon Man-nei: my thanks to both students and faculty for their assistance. Finally, il miglior fabbro, Ackbar Abbas has proved my best reader and critic, as well as friend and colleague: to him, my special thanks.
2. Sir William Dale, The Modern Commonwealth (London: Butterworths, 1983), p. 161.
3. Ibid., pp. 165-168.
4. William MacNeil, "Righting and Difference" in R. Wacks, ed., Human Rights in Hong Kong (Oxford: University Press, 1992), pp. 86-119.
5. On race, see the 1981 African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights which argues for a "right to development" on behalf of the postcolonial world. On gender, see Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (1979).
6. On race, see the 1981 African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights which argues for a "right to development" on behalf of the postcolonial world. On gender, see Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (1979).
7. State of Madras v. Champakan Dorirajan, AIR 1951 S.C. 226.
8. Kameshwar Singh v. State, AIR 1951 Pat 91.
9. Golak Nath v. State of Punjab, AIR 1967 SC 1515.
10. Karimbil Kunhikoman v. State of Kerala, AIR 1962 SC 723.
11. The Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, Decree of the President of the People's Republic of China, No. 26: April, 1990, arts. 21-42.
12. And, thereby entering, as David Fraser has argued, the field of pop culture, moving from the sacred to the profane. David Fraser, "And Now For Something Completely Different: Judging Interpretation and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms" (1987) 7 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 66.
13. Slavoj Zizek, Enjoy Your Symptom! Lacan In and Out of Hollywood (New York: Routledge, 1992).
14. Ernesto Laclau and Chantai Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (London: Verso, 1985), pp. 122-127.
15. Slavoj Zizek, The Sublime Object of Ideology (New York: Verso), p. 71.