Miscarriage of Justice? Postcolonial Reflections on the ‘Trial’ of the Maharajah of Baroda, 1875

This article revisits the Baroda Incident 1875, providing a detailed examination of the Enquiry or ‹trial’ for the first time, and locating that examination in the wider socio-cultural context of the nineteenth century British Empire (especially the Raj) and the exporting of the ‹British’/English legal culture to the Empire. The implications of the establishing of British principles of justice, including the value placed upon Indian-generated evidence and testimony by the courts, are explored, in order to establish the Baroda Incident as a significant miscarriage of justice. Using historical methodologies as well as postcolonial insights, it demonstrates that the concepts of justice on which the British prided themselves were intrinsincally racialised as well as gendered, with profound modern resonances. Dr. Judith Rowbotham is a Reader, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University.     

Competitive Liberalization,Competitive Imperialism,and Intellectual Property

Aggressive pursuit of free trade agreements (FTAs) and customs unions (CUs) by major and minor trading powers alike challenges the conventional wisdom in favor of such pursuit – competitive liberalization. An equally plausible explanation for an active bilateral and regional trade agreement policy, one which effectively de-emphasizes multilateralism, may be competitive imperialism. The protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights is one area in which new provisions, going beyond multilateral rules, are being negotiated and written into FTAs and CUs. Such provisions may yield insights into which characterization of bilateralism and regionalism – competitive liberalization or competitive imperialism – is more apt. Rice Distinguished Professor, The University of Kansas, School of Law, Green Hall, 1535 West 15th Street, Lawrence, KS 66045-7577, USA. Tel. +1-785-8649224. Fax. +1-785-8645054. www.law.ku.edu. J.D., Harvard (1989); M.Sc., Oxford (1986); M.Sc., London School of Economics (1985); A.B., Duke (1984). Marshall Scholar (1984-86). Member, Council on Foreign Relations, Royal Society for Asian Affairs, and Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. Author, Modern GATT Law (Sweet & Maxwell 2005), International Trade Law: Theory and Practice (2nd ed. 2000, 3rd ed. forthcoming 2007-08), and Trade, Development, and Social Justice (Carolina Academic Press 2003). I am thankful to my Research Assistant, Mr. David R. Jackson (B.A., George Mason University, 1992; J.D. Class of 2007, University of Kansas), for his indispensable help on this work. I also am grateful to Dr. Mohammed El Said, University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN), for his consistent support and friendship, and for what he has taught and continues to teach me about international trade and intellectual property.     

二战中英国的"超级机密"

英国记者安东尼·布朗写的《兵不厌诈》一书中,在叙述第二次世界大战英军与德军在北非战场决战时有这样一段话:"阿拉曼战役一开始,隆美尔 军队失败的命运就注定了.……隆美尔所采取的每一个重大军事行动都被'超级机密'暴露.隆美尔成了最没有希望的将军了.他给希特勒的一系列密电,蒙哥马利都通过'超级机密'看到了……而希特勒发给隆美尔的复电,蒙哥马利有时甚至比隆美尔看到得还要早……"     

不断发展、日益深化的中国多边外交

多边外交,指两个以上的国际关系行为主体在多种领域开展的国际合作、交往、协调的行为和方式.作为一种外交战略,多边外交在中国和世界各国已经出现了很长时间.     

Mobilizing from the Margins: Domestic Citizen Politics and Yasukuni Shrine

Prime Minister Koizumi’s six consecutive annual visits to Yasukuni shrine played a key role in initiating a new phase of domestic citizen political mobilization not seen since the early 1970s. This paper is based on field research during the Koizumi years (2001–2006) centering on domestic groups that conduct activities in “protection” of or “opposition” to Yasukuni shrine. As a study of street-based politics, this paper seeks to uncover the processes, strategies, and outcomes of citizen responses to elite political action at Yasukuni Shrine as well as explore meaning of their actions within the context of Japan’s democratic polity.

客家传统思想观念与现代化的矛盾及现代观念的建构

客家传统思想观念与现代化建设间存有许多矛盾。建构客家现代思想观念新体系,既要正确看待客家文化,大力发展市场经济,着力加强法制建设,又要吸收传统文化中的优秀成分,更要崇尚和倡导现代价值观念。     

商业秘密刑事保护优先论的思考

公安机关不当插手民事案件、对雇员跳槽引发的商业秘密纠纷过多依赖刑事保护,是"商业秘密刑事保护优先论"在实践中的突出表现,而这不符合商业秘密是私权及商业秘密权利公开性不够的性质与特点、刑法的谦抑原则等法理。在商业秘密的相关立法不能很快改变的情况下,应当建立商业秘密司法保护但不能刑事保护优先的理念,实践中要特别注意不同侵权主体的不同侵权类型之间的区别,并根据这些差别把握刑民保护及罪与非罪的问题。     

从伯尔尼公约看中国著作权法之修订

<正> 建立著作权法律制度是我国对外开放的总政策的一环。我国政府有关部门在起草《著作权法》的同时,就着手研究解决涉外著作权关系正常化的问题。故立法者一直十分重视有关国际公约和国际惯例。其结果是使得《著作权法》同《保护文学艺术作品伯尔尼公约》(以下简称《伯尔尼公约》或《公约》)的原则和主要条款保持了一致。这一点也得到了世界知识产权组织的认可。 尽管如此,我国1990年《著作权法》在一些具体的规定上与《伯尔尼公约》仍然存在出入。研究这些差距是我们在考虑修订、完善《著作权法》时应该注意的问题。本文仅对少数几个问题谈谈自己的看法。     

澳大利亚侵权行为的法律适用问题

文章通过对澳大利亚侵权行为法律适用由古到今、由传统到现代的规则的论述 ,揭示了澳大利亚侵权行为法律适用规则之处 ,从而为中国的侵权行为法律适用提供一些借鉴。