后现代的制度向往

现代制度文明是西方文化数千年来艰辛探索的智慧成就,然而,它在当下却遭遇了现代性和后现代时空环境移位的双重冲击,显出了转型期的困惑与窘境。在分析了西方现代性发生的历史原因与逻辑,辨析了西方制度文明的长短优劣之后,可以得出结论,这种文化和制度形态与后现代有根柢性的缺陷。因故,后现代的制度文明当有他途综合与重构的必要。其中,东方的文化和制度形态,有不可多得的模型意义及价值。     

Looking Back and Forward on Asbestos Claims

There have been many developments in the asbestos claims arena. Asbestos costs have been affected by a number of important developments in the past two years, and it is expected that activity level will be high this year. Particularly significant in 2014 was the Garlock case, which set a precedent for increased transparency of relevant facts in asbestos litigation. In addition, there are legislative activities at the federal and state levels that include increasing transparency. This article focuses on trends in asbestos litigation, and highlights that there are environmental insurance products available for new exposure to asbestos.     

对日本改宪问题的回顾与前瞻

1999年7月29日,日本众参两院通过修改国会法决议,决定在国会成立宪法调查会.2000年1月20日,宪法调查会在众参两院正式成立.国会设立的宪法调查会,虽然没有议案提出权,但是,却是日本国宪法施行后,在国会专门对宪法进行广泛、综合的调查机构,因此,不能不引起我们足够重视.     

Law and Human Behavior: Reflecting Back and Looking Forward

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Looking Forward to Play: The Persuasive Strategies of a Dog

The author analyses, with semiotic tools, the behaviour of a dog that she observed in Trieste, along the famous promenade called “Barcola”. The animal had been playing with its masters on the seashore and then brought back onto the avenue ready to go home. The dog repeatedly tried, with different strategies, to convince its masters to return to shore and continue their play. The tripling of the trials that is so typical of fairy tales was observed to have been enacted: exactly three times, the dog reproduced the sequence of running towards the parapet, glancing over the sea with guile, running towards its masters, jumping and imploring in front of them, renouncing and walking in a backward position with a lolling head. It is argued that this behaviour demonstrates a highly structured semantic, narrative and communicative competence. This study aims at connecting Semiotics and the ecological approach to cognition that takes into account not only strictly cognitive activities but a wider spectrum of strategies through which an animal develops the adaptive behaviour requested by specific environmental conditions.     

人民法院独立审判的回顾和展望

回顾人民法院独立审判50年来特别是改革开放20多年来所经历的曲折过程,我们党对人民法院独立审判的认识也经历了一个逐步提高的过程。我们要通过认真总结这段曲折历史的经验教训,更加深刻地认识到人民法院独立审判来之不易和它的正确性,进一步理解和把握独立审判在依法治国中的地位和作用。...     

中国律师职业道德：历史回顾与展望

律师职业道德的绝大多数内容,是对律师执业活动具体操作加以指导的规范。因此,律师职业道德的主体内容从性质上讲,应当是一种程序法。从中国目前的律师职业道德规范的渊源来看,一部分是以法律、部门规章等法律规范形式体现的,另一部分,则是以律师协会所制定的行业规范的形式体现的。二者虽然都具有现实的约束性,但是却存在很大的差别。律师协会制定的行业规范并不是法律,对于律师协会进行的行业处分,也不能采取诉讼形式来加以救济。此外, 律师协会制定行业规范的背景,是律师管理的"两结合"体制。这种行业规范,无疑契合了律师行业的独立与自律特征,充满了行业自律的色彩。本文所探讨的中国律师的职业道德, 主要是律师协会制定的律师行业规范。     

改革开放以来我国环境刑事立法的回顾与前瞻

环境刑法是特别刑法体系中最具创意和活力的分支部门。我国改革开放三十年来环境刑事立法取得长足进展,整体呈现为内容严密化和形式集约化的趋势。未来我国环境刑事立法应当坚持以科学发展观为指引,以服务生态文明建设为旨归,科学调整立法体例,适度有序拓展调控范围,植入先进规制技术,完善制裁模式体系。     

Bioethics: A Field in Transition

Bioethics is clearly a field in transition, if not confusion. The author examines two questions at the core of this transition. First, how will bioethics accommodate the different training needs and professional interests of those who understand themselves to be primarily scholars of bioethics, and those who understand themselves to be primarily practitioners of bioethics? And second, whether bioethics will continue to function as an interdisciplinary field or whether it will morph into a discipline in its own right.     

The Future of Empirical Research in Bioethics

Good empirical research is essential to providing sound answers about the facts of the matter, thereby informing bioethical theory and policy. Nevertheless, relatively few topics have been addressed adequately and the most powerful methods have not been exploited to maximize the potential contribution of this work to the field.     

Bioethics and the National Security State

In previous work, I have described the history and ethics of human experiments for national security purposes during he cold war and developed the bioethical issues that will be apparent in the "war on terror". This paper is an attempt to bring these two previous lines of work together under the rubric of the "national security state," a concept familiar to Cold War historians and political scientists. The founding of the national security state was associated with the first articulations of informed consent requirements by national security agencies. My analysis indicates that strengthened consent standards, though conventionally thought to be antithetical crisis, can be seen as an attempt by the postwar national security state to protect itself from critics of expanded governmental power. During the coming years the renewed mission of the national security state in the war on terror should impel students of bioethics to consider its implications for the field.