Education
- PhD, The University of Hong Kong
- JD, Pennsylvania State University
- BS, Shepherd University
Areas of Interest
Constitutional history and interpretation; federalism and regional autonomy; freedom of assembly.
Courses Taught:
Constitutional Law, Florida Constitutional Law, Torts, Election Law, Freedom of Assembly, Second Amendment, Comparative Constitutional Law.
Biography
Jason Buhi is an Associate Professor at Barry University's Andreas School of Law where he instructs courses in Constitutional Law, Election Law, and Torts. He earned his J.D. from the Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong. Prior to teaching here, Professor Buhi taught at the Peking University School of Transnational Law in China, advised on election issues abroad, and participated in the Hong Kong democracy movement. Professor Buhi's perspectives are influenced by those events, as he focuses his research on constitutional history and interpretation, freedom of assembly, and the protection of federalism and regional autonomy. He has published two books and over 20 scholarly articles on constitutional law issues in both the United States and the People's Republic of China.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS: The Constitutional History of Macau (Routledge Press: 1st Ed. 2021) (ISBN 9780367483746); Florida Constitutional Law Essentials (LAD Custom Publishing: 1st Ed. 2020) (ISBN 9798331609924).
BOOK CHAPTERS: The Macau Special Administrative Region at Halftime: An Assessment of the First 25 Years of Reconstruction under the People's Republic of China, in Asian Comparative Constitutional Law: Volume 3 - Constitutional Structure (Bui Ngoc Son et al, eds., Hart Publishing, forthcoming 2025).
Reconstituting China's Peripheries: Orchestrating Political Convergence via the Hong Kong and Macau Basic Laws, in Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law in Greater China (Bui Ngoc Son et al., eds., Routledge Press, 2022).
Constitutional Asymmetry in the People's Republic of China: Struggles for Autonomy Under a Communist Party-State, in Constitutional Asymmetry in Multinational Federalism - Managing Multinationalism in Multi-tiered Systems (Patricia Popelier and Maja Sahadžić, eds., Springer Publishing, 2019) (ISBN: 978-3-030-1170-9).
Diverging Trends in the Socialist Constitutionalism of the People's Republic of China and Socialist Republic of Vietnam, co-authored with Fu Hualing (Dean, University of Hong Kong Law School), Socialist Law in Socialist East Asia (John Gillespie et al., eds., Cambridge University Press, 2018) (ISBN: 978-1-108-42481-3).
SELECT JOURNAL ARTICLES: The New Debate Over History: The Supreme Court and the Future of Analogical Reasoning, accepted by Utah Law Review, forthcoming 2025.
Reimagining Substantive Due Process Liberty Interests as Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, 58 Indiana Law Review 13 (2024).
Citizenship, Assimilation, and the Insular Cases: Reversing the Tide of Cultural Protectionism at American Samoa, 53 Seton Hall Law Review 101 (2023).
America's New Covenant with Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019, 55 Texas International Law Journal 269 (2020).
Corporate Social Responsibility, Casino Capitalism, and the Constitution of Macau, 37 UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal 1 (2020).
Autonomy with Portuguese Characteristics: A Primer on the Privileges of Portugal's Autonomous Regions for the Special Administrative Region Audience, 46 Hong Kong Law Journal 879 (2016).
明末清初的澳门初生宪政 (Macau's Nascent Constitutionalism During the Ming-Qing Transition), 3 Fudan University Law Journal 59 (May 2016).
The Potential Contributions of Maryland's Referendum Law to the Vietnamese Constitution of 2013, Ho Chi Minh City Law Journal (Special Edition, May 2015).
Foreign Affairs and the Chinese Constitutions under the Hu Jintao Administration, 37 Boston College International and Comparative Law Journal 241 (2014).
The Perpetual Dance: Interpreting ‘One Country, Two Systems’ Through the Lens of Tongbian Dialectics, 44 Hong Kong Law Journal 865 (2014).