WHERE IS THE VILLAGE GOING? MAINTAINING AND INCLUDING CULTURAL STRENGTHS TO PROTECT CHILDREN ORPHANED IN KENYA

This article is the result of a master's thesis about children and their universal right to be included in a family environment. This is not only protected under international law, but also intuitive to human beings. HIV‐AIDS continues to threaten lives of children, particularly in sub‐Saharan Africa in the form of orphaning. Looking at a case study from Kenya, it is revealed that, while legal protection is yet to be fully realized in the state, strong cultural norms of value are alive. Currently, the extended family system is the greatest protection to children orphaned or at risk of being orphaned. However, this system was made invisible in the domestic laws of Kenya under the Children Act 2001. This neglect calls for questions not only regarding the protection cultural norms may offer, according to the best interests of children, but also as to the cultural environment being created with the new law.     

“人格歧视”的民法救济探析

“人格歧视”行为违反了尊重他人人格尊严的法定义务 ,侵害了受害人的人格尊严。“人格歧视”要获得民法救济 ,必须符合侵害一般人格权的构成条件。对“人格歧视”的民法救济途经主要有 :停止侵害 ,消除影响 ,恢复名誉 ,赔礼道歉 ,赔偿损失等。     

Having the cake and eating it too: efficient penalty clauses in Common and Civil contract law

In this paper we examine one of the areas where there is a marked difference between Civil and Common contract law, that of the enforcement of liquidated damages and more particularly of penalty clauses. Common law judges are quite reluctant to enforce liquidated damages, especially if they believe that they include penalty clauses which are not enforceable. On the contrary, in almost all European contract laws liquidated damages are readily enforced, as are penalty clauses when they are not manifestly excessive. Although most law and economics scholars have criticized Common law courts for the non-enforcement of penalty clauses, there is a sizable minority of scholars who have defended the Common law “non-enforcement” policy on the ground that penalty clauses are inefficient because they hinder efficient breach. However, and despite the merits of the arguments advanced by advocates of the non-enforcement of penalty clauses, we believe that Common law’s rejection of penalty clauses is inefficient. We further show that the Civil law solution to the problem is not only comparatively more efficient, but that it can also appease the worries of those scholars who are afraid that efficient breaches will be deterred. The solution that Civil law systems give to the problem manages to enforce the parties’ wishes and to avoid deterring efficient breaches. However, we point out that in order for the Civil law systems to take advantage of this superiority, the interpretation of their Civil Codes should be guided by economic analysis and the respect to the wishes of the contracting parties.     

《治安处罚法》第九条的理论与运用

《治安处罚法》第九条涉及行政责任与民事责任的竞合理论与行政调解理论。除此以外,本文还谈了该条在适用中应注意的一些问题。     

论证券虚假陈述中中介机构的民事责任

为了更好地保护投资者的权益,遏制违法违规行为,加强证券市场的监管,有必要进一步完善中介机构的民事责任制度.本文对中介机构虚假陈述民事责任的性质、构成要件、归责原则等进行了较为详尽的分析,并提供了相关对策.     

商品房买卖面积争议处理

商品房买卖面积争议是商品房买卖合同纠纷的表现形式,对其进行分析和探讨,有利于商品房买卖面积争议处理更为科学合理并保证当事人权利救济途径更加顺畅。     

分界·分层·分流·分类——我国民事诉讼制度转型的基本思路

我国民事诉讼制度改革的基本目标和总体方向仍然应当是司法现代化和司法专业化,完成从“前现代”向“现代化”的转型。然而,这种转型不是采取任何单一的价值取向或矫枉过正措施,而是要以社会分工的专业化程度为标志实现社会进化,通过精密的分流装置,体现权限分界、职能分层、案件分流、程序分类的基本思路,从而在价值冲突中系统地重构我国现代化的民事诉讼程序。     

物权法体系构造之若干问题探讨

本文从民法体系构造方法的检讨入手,指出了目前理论界在方法论上存在的问题。以此为基础,文章分析了物权法在民法典中的地位,并以对物权为上位概念构建了物权、准物权和无形财产权三位一体的逻辑体系。最后,作者借功能性构造方法,就用益物权的类型体系作了示例性的建构。     

Violence,fear, and development in Latin America: a critical overview

This introduction presents the core concepts that shape this special issue on the impact of violence and the processes of development in Central and South America. The understanding of development is considered in terms broader than the economic context alone, in order to assess wider social and political aspects. With a similarly expansive scope, forms of violence are addressed that range from direct physical harm and bodily attack to the often more subtle aggression of racialised abuse or the pressures on community-centred production from dominant market forces. In these contexts, violence, economic initiatives, and political allegiances form unintended and often dangerous networks of consequence for development matters. All the articles in this volume exemplify further the spatial environments of violence and diverse ‘landscapes of fear’ that shape our existence and help to define our actions, territories, and understanding of what happens around us.     

Globalisation

The term ‘globalisation’ is widely used to describe a variety of economic, cultural, social, and political changes that have shaped the world over the past 50-odd years. Because it is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon, globalisation has been credited with a wide range of powers and effects. Its proponents claim that it is both ‘natural’ and an inevitable outcome of technological progress, and creates positive economic and political convergences. Critics argue that globalisation is hegemonic and antagonistic to local and national economies. This article argues that globalisation is a form of capitalist expansion that entails the integration of local and national economies into a global, unregulated market economy. Although economic in its structure, globalisation is equally a political phenomenon, shaped by negotiations and interactions between institutions of transnational capital, nation states, and international institutions. Its main driving forces are institutions of global capitalism – especially transnational corporations – but it also needs the firm hand of states to create enabling environments for it to take root. Globalisation is always accompanied by liberal democracy, which facilitates the establishment of a neo-liberal state and policies that permit globalisation to flourish. The article discusses the relationship between globalisation and development and points out that some of the most common assumptions promoted by its proponents are contradictory to the reality of globalisation; and that globalisation is resisted by more than half of the globe's population because it is not capable of delivering on its promises of economic well being and progress for all.