The scope and teaching of welfare law: Report of a symposium*

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Mercantile Law. By Kenneth Smith and Denis Keenan. Fifth Edition. [Pitman 1982. xiii and 753 pp. (inc. index). £8.95 (paperback)].

The Politics of the Judiciary. Second Edition. By J. A. G. Griffith. [Fontana. 255 pp.(inc. index). £2.50].

Introduction to Law in the Republic of Ireland. By Richard H. Grimes and Patrick T. Horgan. [Wolfhound Press. 368 pp. (inc. index). £10.75].

Family Law in the Republic of Ireland. By Alan Joseph Shatter. Second Edition. [Wolfhound Press. 1981. Distributed outside Ireland by Sweet and Maxwell. xl and 408 pp. (inc. index). £18 (paperback)].     

The law commission and judicial law reform*

This article explores ways in which mooting can provide high school students with insight into life as a law student. In gaining high school students’ insights on their early exposure to a legal research skills environment involving oral argumentation exercises, the authors argue that law schools can incorporate experiential learning pedagogies into student recruitment efforts to ensure that both law school and prospective student are better prepared for each other during the delivery and study of law at university level.     

民法与经济法价值之比较分析

本文首先从经济关系层面出发 ,对民法与经济法的互动进行了分析。指出二者价值差异的根源在于经济思想、公平理念和利益观的差异。二者价值体系在总体上具有一致性、谐和性和互补性。同时揭示了他们间的文化与精神的互补、功能的相互矫正及调整对象的交叉。     

The intersection of racial profiling research and the law

There has been a significant increase in the litigation of selective enforcement cases based on racial profiling claims. This trend has resulted in two legal issues that are problematic for racial profiling research. First, selective enforcement claims that rely on statistical evidence must successfully measure “similarly situated persons” who were eligible for police stops to provide a comparison against those actually stopped by police. Second, the research must demonstrate “how much” statistical evidence of racial/ethnic disparities exists. Although these legal components are necessary for successful selective enforcement claims, the methodologies and statistical analyses currently used in racial profiling research cannot adequately address these issues. It is argued that the over-reliance on social science research, in general, and statistical techniques, specifically, to provide evidence of discrimination in selective enforcement cases places policing research and legal decision making at a crossroads.     

On the integration of public law jurisprudence

After two to three hundred years of development, modern public laws have become more and more important, mature and integrated especially since the 20^th century. Traditionally, the dispersive and overlapping public law researches were grounded on the sectional public laws like constitutional law, administrative law, criminal law, procedural law, international public law, etc. Nevertheless, with all-around emergence of public law, the traditional research method can no longer adapt to the development needs of the modern public law. Therefore, it is quite necessary for us to create a kind of moderate unified public law between the laws and the sectional public laws, so as to do comprehensive, integrated and systematic researches on various sectional public laws. Based on the indepth argumentation about the necessity of developing unified public laws, this paper further puts forward that, to discuss an all-encompassing way about the main problems of creating the unified public laws and expect to fill the gap with it, the unified public law should define its study objectives mainly focused on the contents of integrated public law criteria, common public law features and general public law rules and so on; form its theoretical basis on the line of the relations between public power and the citizen privilege; establish its category structure found on the concept of public power and the derivative core and basic categories; and build up the disciplinary system based on the systematic integrity of the public law research results.     

全球法律一体化的理论反思

全球法律一体化问题是法律全球化问题的一个重要方面。21世纪，全球法律正处于空前的融合发展阶段，世界各国和地区之间法律的互相影响甚至趋同化趋势勾勒出了前所未见的全球法律发展图景。但是，立足于历史和现实．我们既要看到一体化给世界法律发展提供的契机，也要看到一体化之下隐藏着对公平、正义、本土资源甚至和平与稳定的重大挑战。本文从“一体化”的危机意识入手探求和谐发展法律全球化之路。