A law for need or a law for greed?: Restoring the lost law in the international law of foreign investment

The 1990s brought about a change in the international law of foreign investment due to the primacy achieved by the tenets of neo-liberalism. They drove concerns about the environment and poverty away from the concerns of the law and gave priority to the interests of multinational corporations by enhancing their ability for movement of assets and the absolute protection of these assets through treaty rules. The regime created by this law was operated through secure systems of dispute settlement through arbitration which also enabled the stabilization of these rules. In the process, private power of a section within the hegemonic state was able to subvert international law through the use of low order sources of the law and secure a system of investment promotion and protection. The restoration of the more universal themes of environmental protection and poverty alleviation is necessary. This paper outlines the developments that accentuated the sectional interests of multinational capital and explores the means by which a change that reflects the global interests could be effected.

过去10年的中国地方政府改革——基于中国地方政府创新奖的评价

依据中国地方政府创新奖创办以来五届申请项目的资料,辅以问卷调查,对过去10年来中国地方政府创新的若干问题进行了讨论。这些问题包括中国地方政府创新的现实性、创新的分布、创新的类型、创新的动力和可持续性以及创新的影响力。研究发现,必须从中国社会政治发展的总体背景出发来审视丰富多彩的地方政府创新。这些创新多是从问题出发的,是对现有体制的充实和发展。但是,创新分布于不同的层级和部门,所以其对整体制度的影响也会由于层级、部门之间的矛盾而受到削弱。     

试论仲裁裁决书的制作

裁决书的制作是仲裁活动中最为重要的内容,本文在分析裁决书价值的基础上,剖析了目前裁决书制作存在的问题,并探讨了如何改进裁决书的制作,以提高裁决书的制作水平。     

英国仲裁司法年度评论—2002

评论2002年英国法院对仲裁事项所作出的决定,包括:(1)执行仲裁条款的情况,对仲裁协议的形式要求和仲裁协议的独立性原则;(2)法院不支持仲裁协议的裁定;(3)仲裁员回避;(4)当事人就仲裁裁决上诉,包括上诉的程序、理由、案件事实认定的问题和法律适用的问题;(5)执行仲裁的裁决;(6)结论,总体评论2002年英国法院对仲裁的司法审查的情况。     

英国法院在承认和执行外国仲裁裁决时的自由裁量权——“Dallah Real Estate and Tourism Holding Company v.The Ministry of Religious Affairs,Government of Pakistan”案评述

通过评述英国上诉法院作出的＂Dallah Real Estate and Tourism Holding Company v.The Ministry of Religious Affairs,Government of Pakistan＂判例,分析英国法院在承认与执行外国仲裁裁决时的自由裁量权行使之条件,并提出该判例可为《承认及执行外国仲裁裁决公约》缔约国提供参考。     

行政法中的比例原则研究

比例原则被誉为行政法中的“皇冠原则”。在不少国家中比例原则已得到程度不同的运用 ,并成为这些国家行政法学研究的重要内容。但在我国行政法学中比例原则还鲜有研究。此文揭示了传统行政法中比例原则的涵义 ,并进一步认为 ,传统比例原则仅适用于“干涉行政” ,在现代“给付行政”的条件下 ,比例原则的适用范围应作相应扩大 ,从而使其具有普遍适用性。     

从永宁公司案看公共政策作为我国法院拒绝执行外国仲裁裁决的理由

通过分析国内外有关公共政策的立法与实践,特别是我国法院拒绝承认与执行国际商会国际仲裁院仲裁庭就永宁公司案作出的裁决,从中显示在承认与执行外国仲裁裁决领域,公共政策的实质在于限制外国仲裁裁决的承认与执行。包括《纽约公约》在内的国内外立法对公共政策均未作出明确的定义,在各国有关国际商事仲裁的司法实践中,法院一般不轻易动用公共政策作为拒绝执行仲裁裁决的理由,凡是能够将拒绝承认与执行外国裁决的理由归咎于公共政策以外的其他理由时,应当援引其他理由,只有在极为特殊情况下法院才援引公共政策的条款。ICC仲裁庭就永宁公司案作出的裁决之所以被我国法院以裁决违反了我国的社会公共利益而拒绝执行,归根到底是该裁决无视我国现行法律规定,侵犯了按照我国现行法律规定专属于我国法院的司法管辖权。     

Pedagogical discourses of gender,peace, and equality: Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards

This article discusses a feminist critical discourse analysis research project of award-winning books of the Jane Addams Peace Association. Children’s books carry societal messages that are gendered, raced, and classed, with award-winning books carrying an additional message of exceptionality as they are viewed as deserving of attention. Thus, the discourses they circulate are important points of analysis. This research, using data from the Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards (focusing on books for older children – young adult literature), takes a feminist antimilitarist perspective to explore the sociocultural implications of children’s literature for education and learning. I examine research with respect to award-winning literature, define my theoretical framework of feminist antimilitarism, explain my methodology of feminist discourse analysis, and detail my findings. I conclude that the awards as a whole function pedagogically to define conflict in ways that privilege colonial discourses, with women represented in essentialist ways and inequality perceived as absent in the contemporary West.