Calavita's Law & Society: (En)racing Law and Society

One of the sharpest critiques of law and society scholarship in recent years has come from scholars who maintain that law and society scholarship fails to address the issue of race appropriately. This essay considers several critiques of law and society scholars' engagement with issues of race and uses them to evaluate Kitty Calavita's exploration of race in Invitation to Law & Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law (2010). The essay advocates the use of “race as process” as a mode of analysis that will allow for greater explanatory power to law and society scholarship when it touches on racial issues.     

从国际法角度看我国物权法草案中的征收补偿标准

征收及补偿问题不仅是物权法中的一个重要问题,也是一个国际法问题。我国物权法在规定征收及补偿问题时,须考虑国际社会的通常做法和我国政府对其他国家已做出的承诺。在征收补偿方面存在着国际法规则。投资协定的约束是确定的,而国际习惯法的约束则取决于各国的取舍。我国现行法律实质上未能明确征收补偿标准,而我国对外签署的投资协定则接受了“充分补偿”标准。物权法(草案)中的“合理补偿”标准并不合理。建议物权法在规定征收补偿标准时,以“充分补偿”为原则,以“另依特别规定”为补充。     

九九修宪与依法治国

九九修宪前夕，围绕宪法的稳定性与适应性、经济发展优先还是法制改革优先等问题， 人们展开了激烈的争论， 认清了修改宪法的必要性。九九宪法修正案确立了邓小平理论在国家中的指导地位， 明确了在现阶段的中国坚持社会主义就是坚持初级阶段、中国特色的社会主义， 稳定了家庭承包经营为基础、统分结合的双层经营体制， 确认了非公有制经济应有的法律地位。依法治国， 建设法治国家， 不仅要求我们从理论上区分法治与法制的概念， 明确法治与人治的分野， 坚持宪法确立的法治原则， 尤其要求我们在实践中建立有效的权力制约机制。     

The Fault of (European) Law in (Political and Social) Economic Crisis

It is a commonplace that the discipline of economics has contributed to the current crisis, above all, because economic methodologies are charged with fatally inflating debt risk, such that collapse was the inevitable result. But what might be said of the role of law within this constellation? Much ink has been consumed detailing legal shortcomings within regulatory regimes for the financial services. However, a full accounting has yet to be made of the broader fault which may also be attributed to the premises of modern and increasingly post-national law, especially as they coalesce with a broader abdication of political responsibility for crisis. This contribution begins this accounting, investigating the processes by which law has transformed itself into an economic technology within post-national regimes in its contemporary quest for material legitimacy. Above all, in its idolatry of the factual, law has itself become a power locus—especially within the European Union—that similarly pre-empts the politics within which social and economic stability might be defined and achieved.     

Family (Law) Assemblages: New Modes of Being (Legal)

This article advances a new model for family law to address emerging non‐conventional family formations, particularly between parents and children. We contend that the conventional model of kinship categories as static, predefined statuses should be replaced with a model whereby the state accommodates kinship categories the law users themselves produce within their fluid and nomadic family assemblages and that they actively revise when negotiating state recognition. We claim that this model would better reflect and govern the emerging kinship system. We corroborate this by drawing on insights from family research that takes issue with the fragmentation of kinship, particularly the fragmentation of motherhood. We then elaborate on a conception of state recognition as the capacity to trace connections and identify normative frameworks, one that valorizes the self‐organizing force of social practices but at the same time holds onto the filtering role of the state.     

简评《刑法修正案(七)》

本次《刑法》修改的特点有二一是广泛征求专家学者与民众意见,体现了民主立法精神;二是顺应社会发展,提升刑法抗制犯罪效能。《刑法修正案(七)》完善了走私珍稀植物、珍稀植物制品罪的对象规定以及为该罪增加拘役刑等九个方面内容;同时,新增了"违规交易、违规提示他人交易罪"等9个罪名。     

Fatal (F)laws: Law, Literature and Writing

In this article, we develop an account of judgment as writing which displaces and contests the conventional staging of the signifiers ‘law’ and ‘literature’. If judgment is understood as writing, then it is opened out onto the contexts which structure it, but which it must disavow or repress. To investigate this process, we read the judicial judgment of a killing of a gay man. In this text, the context that is simultaneously cited and repressed is that of literature - and specifically, Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Literature functions not as law's other in this judgment, but as a legal concept. Its chief performative effect is the concealment of a corpse: literature enables law to forget the wounds of the murdered man, and to bury his corpse within the grammar of fate. Our reading is an attempt to illuminate the scene of this crime. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

全球行政法的产生(上)

一引言:被忽视的全球行政法的兴起 尽管很少得到关注,但是重要并处于发展中的全球行政法正在塑造着全球治理的新模式.的确,这个法律体系目前尚不统一,也还不是一个有序的学术或实践领域.纽约大学法学院的全球行政法研究项目<'[1]>就是将各种国内、跨国和国际框架中与全球治理中的行政法相关的研究系统化的一项努力.借助该项目第一阶段形成的理念,在本文中我们首先从这些多样化的实践中确定一些充分深刻和影响深远、从而构成全球行政法雏形的共性和关联模式.我们指出一些促进共同路径发展的因素和增进该领域一体化程度的学习、借鉴和参照机制.     

全球行政法的产生(下)

(四)全球行政法的原则性特征:正在出现的原则和要求 除了不同类型的机构性机制外,全球行政法还包括一些基本的程序和实体方面的法律原则和要求.