From the perspective of human rights lawyers in China, who routinely face government persecution, Hong Kong must look like a paradise for practice. Though part of China, Hong Kong has its Basic Law, the mini-constitution that allowed the city to maintain the legal system it inherited from the British and guaranteed free speech and other individual rights.
Yet human rights practice generally seems an afterthought in Asia’s bustling financial capital. It’s certainly far less lucrative than other legal work and the prestige factor is lacking in a place where young people are perhaps more apt to name business tycoons than activists as their personal heroes.
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