Jorge A. F. Godinho Doutor em Direito / Law lic. (Univ. Lisbon), LLM (Univ. Macau), PhD (EUI,Florence) has just posted the following information about the latest updates to Macau law on the China Law Discussion list..
he writes:
Dear members of Chinalaw,
While Macau is of course part of China as a Special Administrative Region, the vast differences in relation to mainland law do tend keep if off the main focus of this list. Anyway, with the hope of not abusing the tolerance of our moderator and of our readers and members, here are some updates from Macau for those who perhaps may be interested:
1. The new Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On has presented his policy guidelines at the Legislative Assembly last week. For details including
videos of the presentations see http://al.gov.mo/.
2. The new edition of the International Business Law master program is accepting applications. See http://www.umac.mo/fll/ibl for details and please forward to potentially interested students. Or see here: http://orientalpraia.blogspot.com/2010/02/university-of-macau-master-in-law-in.html
3. I have created a number of blogs on matters of Macau law, and also a personal one. See the links in the signature file below.
4. I have updated the English translation of the Macau Commercial Code with the amendments of 2009. Available at SSRN:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1545094
You will also find at SSRN a partial translation of the Civil Code:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1280595 .
A translation of the Penal Code is also there but it is still in early stages.
5. Once you are at SSRN, you may be interested to also pick up a powerpoint presentation on gaming issues:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1490604
6. A large volume on autonomies has been published: Jorge Oliveira and Paulo Cardinal, One country, two systems, three legal orders. Perspectives of evolution. Essays on Macau?s autonomy after the resumption of sovereignty by China, Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg, 2009. See
http://www.amazon.com/Country-Systems-Three-Legal-Orders/dp/3540685715
7. A volume with the proceedings of a conference on criminal law and procedure organized by the Macau Legislative Assembly was published in Portugal. This is a bilingual Chinese/Portuguese print, on the reverse covers system. See
http://orientalpraia.blogspot.com/2009/12/primeiras-jornadas-de-direito-e.html.