Sovereignty, Migration and the Rule of Law in Global Times

This article argues that in the present era of globalisation, control over the movement of people has become the last bastion of sovereignty. This is important both to theoretical accounts of globalisation and to policy decisions by governments. Nation states threatened with loss of control in other realms are implementing a variety of 'crackdown' measures in questions of immigration. Issues of refugee law, illegal migration and skilled migration each challenge sovereignty in specific ways. While international human rights standards have made few inroads in questions of migration, recent decisions in England and Australia suggest that the rule of law may be emerging as a counter to traditional executive free reign in matters of migration law.     

Using the Citizen to Bring the Refugee In: Gerardo Ruiz Zambrano v Office national de l'emploi (ONEM)

The decision of the CJEU in Zambrano was seen as another example of an over‐active judiciary in Luxembourg. This comment suggests, on the contrary, that the case has too little reasoning to open any ‘floodgates’ but that in setting out a new logic for EU citizenship, the Opinion offers an approach which limits the global approach to free movement case law and uses citizenship status to include rather than exclude the refugee.     

论信访的法治化

我国的信访活动历史悠久,但作为一项正式的政治制度却是近几十年的事。目前,信访工作已经引起社会的广泛关注和普遍热议。因此,必须切实纠正现行信访制度的弊端和缺陷,加强信访工作的法制建设,把信访工作引入真正的法治化轨道。     

匈牙利红增强显现血潜鞋印的研究

目的建立一种增强显现血潜鞋印的新方法——匈牙利红显色法。方法根据匈牙利红增强显现血潜鞋印原理,采用固定、染色、冲洗、提取进行显现。结果匈牙利红对非渗透性客体上的血潜印痕增强显现效果明显,但对白纸、织物等非渗透性客体上的潜血印痕没有明显效果。结论可作为一种补充方法用于潜血印痕的提取。     

“气候难民”的法学思考

全球气候变暖的趋势不断加剧,《京都议定书》之后的气候变化国际应对机制尚未建立,而当前位于低洼地区的岛国已经面临被迫举国迁移的严重威胁,"气候难民"一词应运而生。但"气候难民"能否获得"公约难民"的资格和待遇,能否获得有关的救济和保护,需要从理论和实践层面进行探讨,为解决这一问题提供相应的法律路径。     

THE CRIMINOLOGY OF GENOCIDE: THE DEATH AND RAPE OF DARFUR

Nearly 400,000 Africans may have been killed in racially motivated, lethally destructive, state supported, and militarily unjustified attacks on the farms and villages of the Darfur region of Sudan. Using victimization survey data collected from Darfurian survivors living in refugee camps in Chad, and drawing on conflict theory, we present evidence that the Sudanese government has directly supported violent killings and rapes in a lethally destructive exercise of power and control. In the language of the Geneva Genocide Convention, these attacks have inflicted on African tribal groups "conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction in whole or in part." The data include explicit evidence of the central mediating role played by racism in the attacks. There is little or no evidence from the surveys to support the claim of the Sudanese government that the attacks have been aimed at rebel groups as a counter-insurgency strategy. The Sudanese government claims are by this analysis not credible as self-defense arguments, but rather of the exercise of power and control through denial. Further forms of such denial are considered, including the slowness of modern American criminology to advance the study of genocide.     

How to regulate forensic familial DNA searching in Hungary?

Forensic DNA analysis has the potential to provide useful information for criminal justice even in cases where there is no match, neither between the DNA profile generated from the crime scene and the existing DNA profiles in criminal databases, nor between the DNA collected at a crime scene and potential suspects. In contrast to traditional forensic genetic testing, forensic familial DNA searching does not provide evidence, but helps to generate investigative leads and narrow down the range of potential offenders. The aim of this study is to examine, whether there is a need for special regulation of this topic in Hungary.     

论以人为本的中国《信访条例》

以人为本的科学发展观正逐渐被中国人所接受。因此,本文以阐释以人为本思想的历史演进为逻辑起点,分析了以人为本是中国信访条例的必然选择,进而指出了以人为本思想在《信访条例》中的彰显。     

涉法涉诉信访工作的法治化研究

涉法涉诉信访总量放大、强度增强直接关系民生民权的质量,且严重关涉法律权威和社会安宁。一般说来,信访体制越有作为,法律规则即愈加疲软,司法权威也愈将弱化。从追求良法善治的目标出发,理顺信访体制与司法体制的关系,推进信访工作法治化进程,乃是化解信访和司法困局的长效之策,也是提高司法权威的必由之路,更是缓解信访压力的重要选择。     

农民上访、法律援助与司法公平

信访是一种低效率的和具有人治性质的救济方式,但农民却对此乐此不疲,其中重要的一个原因是:司法是一种昂贵和复杂的救济机制,由于我国法律援助的供给严重不足和分配不平衡,这使很多贫困农民无法获得公平的司法救济,从而踏上上访之路。在建设新农村与和谐社会的过程中,国家一定要重视法律援助工作。     

一起医疗纠纷引发的民事诉讼和行政复议案的思考

以一起医疗损害赔偿纠纷案件引发的民事诉讼和行政复议为例,分析了案例中的几个焦点问题,包括卫生行政部门是否有权审核民事诉讼中的鉴定行为及鉴定结论、是否可以根据民事审判结果做出行政处罚等。强调卫生行政部门应当注意民事诉讼和行政复议的关系,避免出现行政干预司法的违法行政后果,并在此基础上总结了几点办案体会。     

华侨农场发展问题初探

建国初,随着广东省归国难侨处理委员会创建全国第一个华侨农场——广东省珠江华侨农场,华侨农场正式登上中国的历史舞台。虽然以华侨农场为重点的归国难侨安置工作一直是中国侨务工作的重要组成部分,曾获得国际社会的认可和肯定。但随着经济社会发展,华侨农场的历史遗留问题、管理体制和经济运行模式的问题等日渐影响着它的生存发展。因此,探讨华侨农场问题对解决现实问题和进行移民法研究都具有重要意义。     

炭疽信件的物证检验

作者对炭疽信件恐怖袭击有关物证鉴定问题进行了探讨,包括炭疽信件上的微生物物证检验和传统物证检验,污染的消除和人员防护等重要问题.     

从信访局到群众工作局(部)——对河南省义马市创新群众工作体系的调查

义马市创新群众工作体系是破解义马信访难题的现实需要,是坚持党的群众路线的根本要求,是转变党的执政方式的必然选择。义马市委、市政府打破就信访抓信访的惯性思维,用党的群众工作方法破解信访稳定难题,坚持以科学发展观为统领,以树立以人为本的群众工作理念为先导,以构建群众工作网络为载体,以建立群众工作长效机制为关键,以创新群众工作方法为重点,以理情绪、解难题、保稳定、促发展为目标,以加强群众工作制度建设为保障,初步探索出了一条做好信访工作、保持社会稳定、促进社会和谐的群众工作新路子。即要破解信访难题,改进新形势下的群众工作,必须树立起正确的创新观、群众观和发展观。     

论国际信用证当事人未做法律选择时的法律适用

信用证的法律冲突十分普遍 ,而世界各国除了美国之外没有国家立法对信用证的法律适用问题做出了明确规定。各国司法实践表明 ,信用证当事人对法律适用所做的自由选择通常都会得到法院的支持。但是 ,如果当事人对法律适用没有选择时 ,各国法院一般是根据最密切联系原则 ,适用与信用证有最密切联系地的法律。至于何为与信用证有最密切联系地的法律 ?各国法院在不同的案件中基于不同的考虑往往有着不同的看法 ,从已有的案例看 ,适用最多的是开证行所在地的法律和付款行所在地的法律。     

法律和法官革命

面对新世纪 ,我们的法律和法官 ,都将面临巨大的变革。作为法官 ,所能做的最重要的莫过于培养现代法律之理念 ,理解其精神 ,感知其呼吸     

‘Happiness again’: photographing and narrating the arrival of Hungarian child refugees and their families 1956–1957

Abstract

The Australian government has long been involved in creating, collecting and circulating photographs of newly arrived immigrants, displaced people and refugees. Many of these images have been used for internal and external promotional/propaganda purposes. In this article I use news reports and visual photographic material depicting Hungarian refugee children and their families, alongside an analysis of government agendas and communication strategies, to examine how these ‘new Australians’ were understood and presented to the nation. After the 1956 anti-Communist uprising in Hungary, just over 14,000 Hungarian refugees were resettled in Australia. The federal government specially sought out a number of ‘compassionate cases such as children’, and many groups and individuals within the host population offered support to care for what they imagined would be large numbers of orphaned and unaccompanied Hungarian children. These Hungarian refugees came to Australia in the context of increased government interest in public relations and publicity around immigration. A Public Relations director in the Department of Immigration was appointed in 1955 and a publicity section was also established as part of the Planning and Research Division. Discussions by the Immigration Planning Council during 1956 plainly stated that ‘business’ was now the driving force for immigration rather than ‘the “refugee” concept’. Tasman Heyes, the Secretary of the Department of Immigration, agreed but also felt that these two forces were and could be combined, pointing out that since 1951 Australia had received ‘international credit for contributing to the solution of an international problem’ by achieving the integration of these aims. This article examines how refugee children and families were positioned in relation to the fraught pairing of economic and humanitarian concerns, thus interrogating broader understandings of immigration, children and families within the Australian nation that are revealed in these moments of photographic capture and circulation.