Money,Mortgages, and the Conquest of America

In colonial America, land acquired new liquidity when it became liable for debts. Though English property law maintained a firm distinction between land and chattel for centuries, in the American colonies, the boundary between the categories of real and personal property began to disintegrate. There, the novelty of easy foreclosure and consequent easy alienation of land made it possible for colonists to obtain credit, using land as a security. However, scholars have neglected the first instances in which a newly unconstrained practice of mortgage foreclosure appeared—the transactions through which colonists acquired land from indigenous people in the first place. In this article, I explore these early transactions for land, which took place across fundamental differences between colonists’ and native communities’ conceptions of money, land, and exchange itself. I describe how difference and dependence propelled the growth of the early American contact economy to make land into real estate, or the fungible commodity on the speculative market that it remains today.     

文化人类学视野中的民族传统体育

民族传统体育是非物质文化遗产的重要部分,是具有地方特色的传统文化。从人类学的视角出发,我们不仅要关注和研究民族传统体育的具体项目和样式,更要关注和研究这些项目和样式背后的文化环境,分析其在当时能够产生和发展的原因,从而探索在现代如何保护和传承民族传统体育的路径和方法具有指导意义。     

Contesting Legality in Authoritarian Contexts: Food Safety,Rule of Law and China's Networked Public Sphere

Since the introduction of the Internet, China's networked public sphere has become a critical site in which various actors compete to shape public opinion and promote or forestall legal and political change. This paper examines how members of an online public, the Tianya Forum, conceptualized and discussed law in relation to a specific event, the 2008 Sanlu milk scandal. Whereas previous studies suggest the Chinese state effectively controls citizens' legal consciousness via propaganda, this analysis shows that the construction of legality by the Tianya public was not a top‐down process, but a complex negotiation involving multiple parties. The Chinese state had to compete with lawyers and outspoken media to frame and interpret the scandal for the Tianya public and it was not always successful in doing so. Data show further how the online public framed the food safety incident as indicative of fundamental problems rooted in China's political regime and critiqued the state's instrumental use of law.     

《著作权法》第三次修改的重要内容及价值考量

将于2021年6月1日正式开始实施的著作权法修改决定,对我国的著作权法律制度作了重大完善,修改的主要内容包括:一是完善相关概念和制度,包括完善作品的定义和类型,明确视听作品的权利归属,廓清广播权的内涵,修改合理使用的相关内容,增加职务表演制度等;二是强化对著作权人的保护,包括增加惩罚性赔偿制度,提高法定赔偿额,加大对严重侵权行为的行政处罚力度等;三是解决权利人维权难题,包括增加作品登记制度,增加文书提交令制度,实行举证责任倒置,完善诉前保护制度,完善著作权集体管理制度等;四是全面履行国际条约义务,包括延长摄影作品的保护期,完善残疾人合理使用的规则,增加表演者对其表演的出租权,增加录音制作者的广播和机械表演获酬权等。     

20世纪50年代人民解放军“三化”建设研究

新中国成立后的头10年里,中国共产党对社会主义建设道路展开积极探索,人民解放军自身建设围绕着现代化建设逐步展开。期间,适时确立革命化、现代化、正规化完整统一建设目标;从武器装备入手,提高人民解放军的现代化水平;认真贯彻减少数量加强质量精简整编原则,促进人民解放军的正规化、现代化建设;坚持以教育训练为中心任务,推动人民解放军正规化、现代化建设;以武器装备作为现代化建设突破口,建立了独立的国防工业体系,人民解放军正规化、现代化、革命化建设取得长足发展。20世纪50年代人民解放军的建设历史,成就令人瞩目,教训弥足珍贵。     

解放思想 创新发展 努力实现司法行政工作全面进步

在今年年初的安徽司法行政工作年会上,厅党组指出：形势要求我们要解放思想,创新发展。实践证明,思想解放的程度决定改革的深度和发展速度。司法行政工作点多面广、范围大、条条框框相对较少,因而改革创新的空间大,